Law Research

Professor McColgan's research is in the area of equality/ discrimination and human rights. She has published widely in these subject areas as well as more generally in labour and criminal law and evidence.

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Professor Türk’s principal research interests are in the field of European Union Law, and in particular its constitutional and administrative law. He has just completed a project on EU Administrative Governance (together with Professor H. Hofmann), which brought together a number of scholars from different academic backgrounds and countries to examine the role of administrative actors in the policy cycle of the European Union and in its various policy sectors. His contributions include a study on policy implementation and the modernisation of EU antitrust enforcement. He is currently writing a monograph on judicial review in the EU for Edward Elgar Publishing.

Alison's main research interests are currently in the area of EC Competition and US Antitrust Law.

Dr Parmar’s research interests focus on ‘race’, ethnicity and crime, culture, youth offending and sociological theoretical approaches to the understanding of crime. During her three year postdoctoral fellowship, alongside publishing from her doctoral study, Dr Parmar will empirically consider ethnic minority youths’ perceptions of and experiences with the police in the UK, with a focus on the potential impacts of the implementation of anti-terror legislation. Further details of the project can be found at: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/posts/pdf2007.html#parmar  

Andrea’s research interest is European Union law, with particular emphasis on the judicial protection of EU rights and regulation of trade. He has written extensively on the notion of effective judicial protection and on the pros and cons of harmonisation of procedural rules at the European Level. As regards trade law, he is particularly interested in the free movement of goods and services. His interest in EC State aid law focuses mainly on the question of how an appropriate balance can be struck between trade liberalization and the role of the State in the economy.

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Anton Shelupanov’s areas of research include prison and public health, prison management, the human rights of persons in detention and security sector reform.

Ben’s studies crime, criminal justice, policing and community safety. He is currently working on two books: Policing the Caribbean (OUP) and Global Policing (Sage). These examine the extension of police power beyond the boundaries of the nation state and the practical, political, ethical and legal problems that arise. His most recent work on fairness, effectiveness and police accountability in the local, national and transnational spheres has been published in the Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review, Criminology & Criminal Justice and Theoretical Criminology.

Dr Kletzer's research has been in the areas of Legal, Moral and Political Philosophy. His main interests lie in German Idealism (mainly Fichte and Hegel) and the legal and political thought of the Weimar Republic (focusing on Kelsen and Schmitt). He is particularly interested in the intersections of contemporary metaphysics and epistemology with legal theory.

Chris’ research interests lie in the relationship between competition law, particularly European competition law and other public policy areas, such an environmental or cultural policy. He has recently started a new research project examining European competition law from the perspective of legal and moral theory.

David’s research interests lie in the area of competition law and policy. His current research focuses on the relationship between competition law and public law and various aspects of US antitrust.

Intellectual property law; particularly international and comparative aspects and issues arising from the use in practice of IP rights and their enforcement;Trade mark law and its development in Europe, together with other methods of protection for trade indicia, including the law of passing off. Commercialisation of intellectual property rights.

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A core area of interest is criminalisation. Here, Dr Baker has written on the moral limits of the criminal law with reference to the Harm Principle, Offence Principle and Kant’s Categorical Imperatives. Dr Baker has also written papers on developing constitutional rights to curb the growth of substantive criminal law. More significantly, Dr Baker has reinterpreted a number of existing constitutional and international rights to demonstrate that these rights incorporate a constitutional “Right Not to Be Criminalised”. More generally, he has written on ‘remote harms’ and complicity, the limits of consent as a defence in the criminal law, plea bargaining, the civil/criminal law divide, corporate sanctions, the Chinese Criminal Code and related subjects.

Elaine’s research interests are principally focused in sentencing and penology. Her current project is concerned with the treatment of women in the criminal justice system, exploring the ways in which the legal processes of bail, sentencing and imprisonment operate differently for men and women. She has published three monographs on prison research Drug Treatment in Prison Waterside (2000); Grendon: A Study of a Therapeutic Prison OUP (1995); Race Relations in Prisons (1989) OUP and edited one collection of essays Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (1994) Routledge. She has worked as a consultant on the development of the therapeutic prison at HMP Dovegate and was a member of the Prison Reform Trust’s Commission of Inquiry into Women’s Imprisonment and co-author of the resulting Wedderburn Report.

Professor Lomnicka’s research interests lie in financial services regulation and consumer credit law, as reflected in her principal publications. She has been co-editor (with Professor Guest) of Sweet and Maxwell's Encyclopedia of Consumer Credit for over 30 years and of Sweet and Maxwell's Encyclopedia of Financial Services Law since 1986. She is also co-author of Ellinger's Modern Banking Law (5th edition in preparation). She also contributes chapters to Chitty on Contracts (Chapter 38: Credit and Security), Palmer’s Company Law (Part 11: Investor Protection) and Benjamin’s Sale of Goods (Chapter 24: Export Credit Guarantees).

Most recently she collaborated with Professors Beale, Bridge and Ms Gullifer on a new OUP book "The Law of Personal Property Security".

Eva Steiner’s main areas of research are French and Comparative Law. Within these fields she has written on such varied topics as criminal omissions, the prosecution or war criminals, surrogacy and, more recently, codification of the law, civil registered partnerships and the right to knowledge of one’s origins.

Her major work ‘French Legal Method’ (OUP, 2002) is widely used in the UK and abroad.

She has also acted as a referee or an expert witness in French law for a number of solicitors firms and official bodies, including the Nuffield Foundation, the BBC and, more recently, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Metropolitan Police.

In 2005, at the request of the French Ministry of Justice and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), she took part in a major European survey on the best interest principle in children law where she submitted the English report.

She has been appointed Expert witness in French law in the current inquest in the death of the Princess of Wales in Paris in 1997.

She is a member of the Société de Législation Comparée (Paris).

Dr Ortino’s research centres on international economic law focusing in particular on WTO law, international investment law and arbitration and EU internal market law. In previous writing, he has addressed principles such as non-discrimination, reasonableness, and proportionality employed in various legal systems as instruments for international economic governance. He has recently focused on the regulation of trade in services within the WTO and in regional trade agreements. His current research is concerned with the legitimacy challenges faced by the emerging system of international investment law.

Genevra Richardson’s research and publications have covered administrative law and administrative justice, prison law and law and psychiatry. While most of her research has been library based she has retained an interest in empirical socio-legal research and continues to be involved in empirical projects. She is frequently invited to present her work overseas and to contribute to international collections and journals.

Currently Genevra Richardson maintains three main areas of research interest: administrative justice, law and psychiatry and the regulation of biomedical research. Her interest in administrative justice relates closely to her work on the Council on Tribunals. In law and psychiatry she continues to examine the possible ethical bases for legal intervention and is also part of a team based at the Institute of Psychiatry which has received funds from both the Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust to examine various aspects of consent to treatment within psychiatry. Finally, her involvement with the regulation of stem cell banking has led to a growing interest in the role of regulation in the field of biomedical research.

Irit’s principal research interests are the philosophical foundations of equity, and ethics. She is now working on a monograph about the rationalist analysis of evildoing. Her interest in the law of equity lies mainly in the interface between moral theory and equitable doctrines and concepts.

Professor Dalhuisen’s main interest is in International Commercial, Financial, Insolvency and Arbitration Law, Legal Theory and Legal History. He has published extensively in these fields in the UK, US, Netherlands, and Italy.

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Mrs Henderson’s main research interests and publications have been concerned with aspects of the Soviet and Russian legal systems.

The main concentration has been on public law issues in Russia: constitutional innovations; separation and balance of powers; the formation of the Federal Assembly (legislative chamber), in particular the upper chamber, the Council of the Federation; President Putin’s innovation of the State Council; and the establishment and working of the Russian Constitutional Court, including its use of international law.

Mrs Henderson has also written on a number of administrative law issues: the system of administrative commissions and the code of administrative violations; the establishment of a mechanism for dealing with citizens’ complaints, and current problems in administrative law. She has published papers on aspects of the legal profession and legal services, the role of the judiciary, the re-establishment of jury trial in Russia and of the courts of justices of the peace (local judges analogous to English District Judges, Magistrates’ Court).

Currently she is researching various aspects of the Russian state structure and constitutionalism.

She is the rapporteur on Russia for the journal European Public Law.

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Professor Phillips' main research interests are contract, commercial law and intellectual property. These are reflected in his two books, "Protecting Designs: Law and Litigation" and "The Modern Contract of Guarantee." The latter is now in its fourth Australian edition and an English edition (completely rewritten for this jurisdiction) has been recently published. All these works are intended as scholarly analysis and evaluation of the relevant area of law, questioning existing dogma and providing suggestions for reform, and also as detailed reference texts for those who practise in this area of law. This reflects the author's approach to legal research – namely, that it should be both scholarly and useful.

Various aspects of Criminal Law, Jurisprudence and Moral Philosophy.

Medical ethics; psychiatric ethics; global ethics.

Karen is currently working on several projects exploring the role of technology as an instrument for shaping and constraining individual and institutional behaviour and is particularly interested in the following areas: Accountability and Legitimacy in the Regulatory State; the Politics of Regulation; Regulatory Instruments; Technology as a policy instrument; Tools of Government Enforcement and Compliance; Public Law and Governance; Constitutional Dimensions of Regulatory Governance; Rights and Regulation; Theories of Regulation; Governance Beyond the State.

Labour law and constitutional reform, with special reference to the relationship between social rights and constitutional law.

Dr Turano’s research interests lie in the field of comparative public and property law. She has published articles on Spanish constitutional law, English property law, comparative trust law and judicial review.

Lorenzo's special interests are in jurisprudence, constitutional theory, EU constitutional law, and human rights. He is the author of Constitutional Dilemmas- Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights in Europe and the USA (OUP, 2007) and articles on European human rights law and theory. He is currently working on the place of religion in the European public sphere. This is a study of one of the most pressing legal social and political problems in Europe and includes issues such as the ECHR protection of religious freedom, EU policies against islamic terrorism, EU enlargement to Turkey, and a wider debate on European identity. He also publishes in the fields of legal theory and is particularly interested in theories of human rights. He is also working on a research project on the methodology of comparative constitutional law.

Lorenzo has been speaker at many European and International Universities, including the University of Ghent, where he delivered a keynote address on conflict of human rights. He also lectured at the University of Yokohama, Japan, and Mofid University, Iran.

Maleiha Malik's research is concerned with anti-discrimination law. She has published articles, chapters and essays on the legal and policy issues in this area.

Michael’s research interests lie broadly in the areas of transnational, European and comparative private and commercial law with particular emphasis on contract, company and corporate insolvency law. Michael is currently working on a book – Comparative Company Law – Text, Cases and Materials (with Carsten Gerner-Beuerle) for Oxford University Press.

Neema’s research covers resource allocation and research ethics. She wrote her PhD on distributive justice and has published in Health Policy on the allocation of Anti-Retroviral Treatment for HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Most recently, her research has focused on the ethics, practice and governance of research on human subjects. She has published in the Journal of Medical Ethics on research participants’ views regarding obligations to ensure post-trial access to trial drugs. Neema is currently studying ethical and legal aspects of post-trial access to trial drugs, health care and information.

Pat's research interests include end of life decision-making particularly in regard to patients in a persistent vegetative state and those with progressive dementia and questions of social justice and the provision of health care. More recently she has been working on ethical and political issues arising in an increasingly globalised world.

Paul is mainly, but not exclusively, interested in private law. His research interests fall into five main groups: (1) trust and property law; (2) comparative law (particularly trust and property law); (3) civil litigation; (4) coroners’ law; (5) the laws of the Channel Islands. Often these categories overlap, eg in relation to comparative trust law, or the trust law of Jersey, or in relation to litigation about trusts, or about coroners’ inquests.

He is able to work with materials in French, Italian, and occasionally German. He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals, including Trust Law International and The Jersey Law Review. In the past he has also written widely on other subjects, including restitution and criminal law.

He is currently working on a number of projects, including a new edition of Jervis on Coroners, and an introductory work on comparative property law.

Professor Lewis’ research covers two separate subject areas. In the area of criminal evidence and procedure, she has written extensively on prosecutions for childhood sexual abuse which take place many years after the alleged events, and in 2006 published a monograph on this topic entitled Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuse, which is part of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice. In the medical law area, her research focuses on end of life issues. She is the author of a number of articles on assisted dying (euthanasia and assisted suicide) and her monograph entitled Assisted Dying and Legal Change was published in 2007 by Oxford University Press. She has also published articles and chapters dealing with a wide range of medical law topics, including wrongful life, advance decision-making, refusal of treatment, medical treatment of children and medical procedures which are against the interests of incompetent adults, such as non-therapeutic research.

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Professor Green has published widely on state crime, state-corporate crime, natural disasters, Turkish criminal justice and politics, transnational crime and asylum and forced migration. Her current research interests include illegal logging, torture and state violence, environmental harms and looted antiquities.

Mr Keller’s principal research work concerns the changing relationship between the media and the liberal democratic state, which is under extreme pressure from both the current revolution in communications technologies and the wider effects of globalisation. This project looks at that changing domestic relationship by placing it in the context, firstly, of the comparatively well developed European economic and human rights based regime governing media issues, and secondly, the incomplete patchwork of international trade and human rights agreements and institutions that affect domestic media concerns. This major project will conclude in 2008. Mr Keller’s research interests in legal developments in China also principally concern the changing relationship of the media and Party-state.

Raymond Plant is a philosopher and has written mainly on political.social and legal philosophy. At the moment he is completing a book on the Neo Liberal State and the Rule of Law based on the Boutwood Lectures to be published by Oxford University Press and will then commence a book on religion and liberal pluralism. He is also writing a book for Polity Press on Citizenship with Dr Selina Chen of H.M. Treasury. He also works on rights and has written a good deal on the foundations and scope of rights. This is a set of normative studies rather than rights as they appear in different legal codes in different jurisdictions. He is probably best known for his work on Hegel as a political, social and legal philosopher and for his work on conceptual issues to do with welfare particularly ideas such as needs, rights, obligations, community etc. His political interest have also brought in academic consideration. In 1993 he completed the writing of a set of three reports for a Labour Party Commission which he chaired on the electoral system and electoral reform and he retains interests in this. Between 200 and 2002 he Chaired the Fabian Society Commission on Taxation and Citizenship and wrote quite a bit of its report Paying For Progress.

Professor Hooley’s research interests lie in the fields of contract, commercial and banking law. He is probably best known for his work in the areas of payment and payment systems. He is particularly interested in the issues thrown up by new forms of electronic payment and the way that the courts have use principles of English common law to deal with them. In a similar manner, he is interested in the way that English commercial law had adapted to modern business practices and the needs of the mercantile community.

Professor Whish has research interests in the competition law of the EU, UK and other countries. He is actively involved in research on many aspects of competition policy, including the international merger process, pricing behaviour and the relationship between competition law and regulation.

His research interests and activities have focused mainly on the structure and powers of the executive, the theory and practice of Parliament, electoral law and the voting system, the protection of fundamental rights, and constitutional history.

Among his recent work, he has carried out extensive research on the working of Parliament in recent sessions, showing how the rules and procedures are utilised by the three principal participants in the parliamentary process – the government, the opposition front-bench, and back-benchers. He has studied the law, working and effect of membership of the ECHR within the domestic legal and political systems of the UK and comparatively across European member states. He has conducted an in-depth analysis of the constitutional conventions and ideologies circumscribing the royal prerogative powers of prime ministerial appointment, dissolution of Parliament, and Royal Assent, exercised by the Queen - or a future King - as head of state.

Special Interests: Contract, EU Law, Human Rights, Anti-Discrimination Law, Sexual Orientation and the Law.

As a researcher, writing about contracts and the common law, legal theory, bioethics, and the regulation of technology, Professor Brownsword’s work is known around the world. Although most of his work has been published in the United Kingdom, he has also published papers in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States.

For more than twenty years, Professor Brownsword has collaborated with Professor Deryck Beyleveld in developing a distinctive morally-driven approach to law. The foundations of this approach are set out in Law as a Moral Judgment (1986) and it is taken forward in Human Dignity in Bioethics and Biolaw (2001) and Consent in the Law (2007).

In the area of contracts, Professor Brownsword has published a new edition of his overview of contracts, Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century (2006, OUP) and he is working on a Chitty supplementary volume on exclusion clauses.

In the area of regulation and technology, he published the following two books in 2008: Rights, Regulation and the Technological Revolution and Regulating Technologies (the latter co-edited with Professor Karen Yeung).

Rosamund Scott’s research interests are largely in the field of reproductive law and ethics. In 2002 her first book, Rights, Duties and the Body: Law and Ethics of the Maternal-Fetal Conflict, was published. She has since published a number of articles on prenatal screening, selective abortion and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Her second book, Choosing Possible Lives: Law and Ethics of Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis was published in 2007. She is currently a member of a research project looking at the attitudes of IVF patients to the donation of embryos for stem-cell research. Previously, she was a member of a research group looking at the attitudes and experience of staff involved in the provision of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and a member of the Advisory Board of a group studying developments in stem cell research and therapy.

International Refugee Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Human Rights Law and Public Law

Stephen has written across a range of issues in family law and child law, but has a particular interest in the law relating to parental responsibility and the resolution of parental disputes. Recently his work has focused on the implications for court decision-making of research evidence on the connection between post-separation parenting arrangements and child well-being. Stephen recently co-edited (with Rebecca Probert, Warwick, and Jonathan Herring, Exeter College Oxford) a collection entitled Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility to be published by Hart, and is currently co-authoring (with Lisa Glennon, at Queen’s University, Belfast) the third edition of Hayes and Williams, Family Law: Principles, Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press).

Dr Aplin’s research lies in the field of intellectual property law. She has written extensively on how digital technologies are regulated by copyright law at an international, European and national level (particularly in the UK and Australia) and much of this work is reflected in her monograph, Copyright Law in the Digital Society (Hart: 2005).

Her current research relates to the evolution of the action for breach of confidence. In particular, she is concerned with how privacy-based decisions in this area are affecting the shape of the action as a whole, and not just in the realm of personal information. This research has been published in the Intellectual Property Quarterly, European Intellectual Property Review, King’s Law Journal and Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and will also form part of a second edition of the text Gurry on Confidence (Clarendon Press, 1984), which she is co-authoring with Professor Lionel Bently and Mr Simon Malynicz.

Dr Aplin has recently completed (with Dr Jennifer Davis) a Text, Cases and Materials textbook on Intellectual Property Law, to be published in 2009 by OUP. She is also working on the next edition of Cornish and Llewelyn’s ‘Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights’, published by Sweet & Maxwell.

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Tim's principal research interests are in the philosophical foundations of certain of our fundamental political rights and freedoms. He has published a book on the meaning of sex discrimination, Beyond Comparison, has recently completed a book on the freedoms of expression, religion, conscience and privacy, and the role of judicial review in relation to these, Independence of Mind, and is in the early stages of projects on equality, consent, and the nature of law. He has also written on moral philosophical questions to do with reason and value, and on issues in constitutional and criminal law, on his own and with John Gardner of the University of Oxford.

Dr Ogowewo’s research covers the following areas: the regulation of takeovers (mergers and acquisitions), general corporate finance law and Nigerian law.