SLSA E‐Newsletter

DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2014.00681.x
Date01 September 2014
Published date01 September 2014
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Socio-Legal
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lAn introduction to Twitter – 3
lGraphic Justice Seminar report – 4
lMeet your exec: Jess Guth – 4
lSLSA grant reports – 5–6
lSocio-legal research – 7–9
lSocio-legal news – 10–11
lPublications – 11–12
lEvents – 13
lSLSA 2014 call for papers – 14
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The SLSA Executive Committee is delighted to announce
that Roger Cotterrell has been awarded this year’s Prize
for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community. David
Nelken, who nominated him, summarises his extensive
contribution to the field.
Roger is, for most of his peers, the leading social theorist of law
and sociologist of law in the UK, and amongst the very best
worldwide. He combines highly sophisticated theoretical skills
with a masterly capacity to appreciate and synthesize the results
of empirical work. In a career spanning almost 40 years he has
impressed his stamp on the field in contributions such as The
Sociology of Law, The Politics of Jurisprudence and Law’s Community.
As important, Roger has been a model to generations of
colleagues and students. He rose to be Dean at Queen Mary
University of London and has been in high demand as a lecturer
and examiner in the UK and around the world. He has ensured
that socio-legal studies maintains a dialogue with related
disciplines and subject areas without being subordinated to
them. He is an exemplary scholar and teacher and administrator
that our field is fortunate to have produced.
A longer version of this nomination is available on the SLSA website.
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SLSA members and non-member colleagues will be gathering in
Aberdeen next spring as guests of Robert Gordon University.
The Department of Law will welcome delegates to the beautiful
Garthdee campus on the banks of the River Dee.
The call for papers is now open: see page 14. The conference
organisers are Sarah Christie es.christie@rgu.ac.uk and
Margaret Downie em.downie@rgu.ac.uk.
Please visit the conference website where further details will
be posted when available.
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Postgraduates will congregate at Liverpool Law School in the
new year. The conference is free (including meals and
accommodation but not travel) and is open to members and
non-members alike. Registration is now open but places are
limited. The conference organiser is Helen Stalford
estalford@liverpool.ac.uk. Please see website for full details
wwww.liv.ac.uk/law-and-social-justice/conferences/slsa.
Closing date for registration: 4 December 2013.
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Included in this issue of the newsletter is a recruitment
flyer detailing all our membership benefits and
membership rates. We would be grateful if members
could post it on their noticeboards to bring it to the
attention of their colleagues and students. If you would
like a pdf of the flyer to print off extra copies, please
contact Marian Duggan em.duggan@shu.ac.uk.
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The SLSA is delighted to announce that six of our most
eminent members have been appointed as academicians of
the Academy of Social Sciences.
They are: Anne Barlow, University of Exeter; Simon Halliday,
University of York; Judith Masson, University of Bristol; Linda
Mulcahy, London School of Economics; Christine Piper, Brunel
University; and William Twining, University College London.
New academicians may be nominated by their learned
society or by individual academicians as an acknowledgment of
their leading status in their discipline. Nominations are received
twice per year and the SLSA Executive Committee will continue
to invite members to suggest nominees for future rounds.
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The 2013 seminar competition is now open for entries. At its
September meeting the SLSA Executive Committee agreed to
increase the fund to £5000, all of which can be awarded to a
single proposal or divided between two or more applicants. The
money can be used to support the delivery of an individual
seminar or short conference, or a series of events. There are no
restrictions on subject matter, provided that applicants can show
relevance to the socio-legal community. Applicants must be
SLSA members. Applications will not be considered where the
amount of support required is less than £500, or where the event
is targeted at staff or students of a single institution. The fund
has so far supported seven successful events.
If you are considering an application, please ensure that
your proposal accords with the published guidance,
downloadable from the SLSA website: wwww.slsa.ac.uk. If you
have any queries, contact Mark O’Brien,
emark.o’brien@uwe.ac.uk. Closing date: 13 December 2013.
A report of this year’s SLSA seminar by Thomas Giddens is on page 4.
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The SLSA website contains comprehensive information
about the SLSA and its activities and is also the home of the
SLSA online directory. The news section is updated weekly
with socio-legal news, events, publications, vacancies etc.
Updates are circulated to members via a weekly e-bulletin.
To request the inclusion of a news item and for queries
about the website, contact Marie Selwood
emarieselwood@btinternet.com. You can also follow the
SLSA on social media.
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Benefits of SLSA membership include:
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lfree annual postgraduate conference
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ldiscounts on subscriptions to a selection of law journals
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lspecial membership category for retired members
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Throughout 2012 and 2013, we’ve been developing our
social media presence with new pages on Twitter and
LinkedIn and a revitalised Facebook page. At our 2013
AGM, members asked for a brief introduction to Twitter.
We turned to our social media officer and SLSA secretary,
Chris Ashford.
Twitter is an amazing tool. Launched in 2006, the site described
itself originally as a micro-blogging service. It offers users the
chance (through a free account) to share their thoughts in 140
characters. These messages are called ‘tweets’. Accounts are
available for all the world to see by default but you can set an
account to be private, and thus available only to your ‘followers’.
You create an account and a profile when you first join. This
will provide you with an opportunity to describe yourself/your
account in a few words. You also select your Twitter ‘handle’ or
account name at the same time. This could be your name, or it
could be your research/interest area. You also have an
opportunity to upload a photo. If you don’t do so, you will
appear as what might best be described as an egg! People are
more likely to interact with you if you show them what you
really look like.
This is probably a good moment to explain some of the
language around Twitter. As a social media tool, Twitter is all
about interaction. Those who are interested in seeing your
tweets along with others select to ‘follow’ you. You in turn
might decide to follow them back, or you might choose to be
highly selective in whom you follow. You’ll notice that
celebrities, such as famous Twitter-user Stephen Fry, have far
more followers than those they follow. It takes time to build a
presence on Twitter, the more you interact, the more you
develop an identity (for example, around your research area),
and the more followers you will pick up over time. In doing so,
you’ll gain new contacts and new insights from your followers
who share an interest in your specialism.
When you do follow someone, their tweets will appear in
your Twitter feed, sometimes called a ‘timeline’. So, following
people is your way of selecting the type of tweets you want to
see. If you find you’ve made a bad choice, you can always
‘unfollow’ them.
You can group people via a system called lists. So, should
you be really interested in tweets about The Great British Bake-
Off, contract law and maritime law, you could create three
separate lists so that you can only see tweets on those particular
subjects. You can also view other people’s lists so that you can
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particular field.
Twitter also has a search engine so you can look for people
or tweets on a particular subject. If you want to be discovered by
someone looking for your subject, you should make reference to
it in your brief biography.
Different institutions will have different policies on Twitter.
If you are planning on making reference to your institution in
your biography, it is best to check with your communications or
marketing department to make sure you’re in line with their
policies and guidelines.
Twitter also makes use of ‘hashtags’. For example, we made
extensive use of these at our York annual conference with
#SLSA13 for the conference overall and a number of streams and
themes used their own additional hashtag. If you see a hashtag in
Twitter and click it, you will see all the other tweets that use that
hashtag. You can therefore use them at events and workshops to
quickly foster communities in the room and beyond. This can
often generate impact for your event around the world.
You can apply the same approach to your teaching too,
displaying a ‘Twitter wall’ in a lecture or tutorial, displaying
tweets on a particular subject, or perhaps your module’s hashtag.
You could also use it to involve students in discussion and
conversation on an issue beyond the classroom, encouraging
students to engage with a debate and key stakeholders.
Twitter offers truly wonderful opportunities to engage with
and beyond the academic community and your students. It’s
already changed the way that many watch and experience
television and world events. It is also reshaping the way that we
learn, teach and research.
See box below for all SLSA online details.
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This year’s SLSA seminar competition winner Thomas
Giddens reports on his one-day symposium which took
place on 11 September 2013 at St Mary’s University
College, London.
One year ago, I released a call to gather together those
interested in the crossovers between comics, law and justice.
After a bit of interest, this was shortly followed by a further call
– this time for papers to be included in a small symposium. The
purpose of this symposium was to give people working (or
wishing to work) at the intersection of graphic fiction and the
concerns of law and justice an outlet for their ideas and ongoing
research, and to enable discussion on the various ways comics
might be, or are, useful for understanding the complexities of
justice and law. It appeared to me from my own work that
although comics and graphic fiction had huge cultural capital –
entertaining millions around the world with a huge variety of
storylines and narratives engaging with all kinds of themes
around justice, morality, politics, and human experience – there
was very little research being produced looking at these
dimensions of the medium.
I can’t be the only one interested in this stuff, I thought
to myself.
Accordingly, I made plans for the symposium: I booked
some rooms and released the call for papers. I had anticipated
maybe 10 papers or so at most, which would make for a small
single-day symposium with a few panels looking at graphic
justice from a couple of different angles. But soon it dawned on
me that I had been naïve in my anticipation. Very quickly the
comics fans that had infiltrated the legal academy started to
come out of the woodwork, alongside those who were new to
the medium, and I received papers from a number of areas of
academia – and beyond.
During this time I had also submitted a funding application
to the SLSA to help support any international delegates in their
travel (I thought there might be one or two), and to subsidise
catering costs. Again, much to my surprise and delight, the
number of international delegates was higher than I had
anticipated. I had people from the US, Germany and Australia
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One of the Executive’s newer members, Bradford
University’s Jess Guth, introduces herself to SLSA
members and describes how she became socio-legal.
My socio-legal journey began when I took an MA in social
research at Leeds University after having taking a traditional law
route and spending two years in legal practice. My interest in
different approaches to law and legal education was, however,
undoubtedly sparked during my undergraduate education
where I was taught by both Fiona Cownie and Tony Bradney. My
MA dissertation was a comparative study of English and German
lawyers’ perceptions of child contact where there was a history of
domestic violence in the parents’ relationship. During my MA, I
got a job first as an administrator and then researcher in an
interdisciplinary research team working on several projects
looking at highly skilled mobility in the EU. Working as part of
that team gave me an insight into different disciplines, their
perspectives and approaches and taught me to keep an open
mind and to try and be less constrained by disciplinary
boundaries when it comes to selecting methods, literature and
approaches. In 2004, I started working on my PhD part time. My
thesis, though socio-legal in nature, actually ended being more
law-based than I had thought it would be at the start. Perhaps
because I was conscious of fitting back into a law school and of the
need to publish in one or two legal journals! It is an analysis of
law and policy in the context of doctoral level mobility in the EU.
presenting papers – even though this stretched the funding
pretty thin.
The interest in the complex, rich and culturally resonant
medium of comics and its relationship and engagement
with legal issues, I thought, is evidently as global as the
medium itself.
Ultimately, the small symposium I had planned became
more of a one-day conference. I ended up with 20 very
interesting and extremely diverse papers, which I had to cram
into eight parallel sessions spanning the entire day. The richness
and diversity of the perspectives on show was both astounding
and exciting – and more than I could have hoped for. I had
worried that those interested would mostly be looking at issues
of crime and criminal justice, as these are the most overt themes
of the mainstream superhero narratives. But there were papers
on public law explored through Superman and Judge Dredd; on
political and legal theory critiqued and contextualised through
series such as the Justice League and Batman; on comics as a
pedagogical tool, and as a resource for communicating and
exploring issues in biomedical regulation; on human rights
critiqued in the narratives of Tintin; on criminology and
vigilantism in superhero and other works, such as 100 Bullets
and Red Team; on the history of comics regulation and the
restrictions of free speech; on copyright; on professional legal
ethics; on presentations of race in classic comics; on the use of
comics as an effecter of social change. Like these perspectives,
presenters and attendees also came from a wide pool: alongside
the academics and PhD candidates were legal practitioners,
independent researchers and comics publishers.
The variety and depth of critique was vital and inspiring.
The day itself was a joy to both attend and to have the privilege
of hosting, and I heartily and warmly thank everyone in
attendance: those who helped out, those who gave papers, and
those who just turned up to engage with the scholarly
cornucopia on show.
The idea of graphic justice has evidently roused a large
amount of interest and has huge potential for development and
growth. My hopes for the project are great, and if 2013 is
anything to go by, future years hold a great deal of promise.
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In 2007, I successfully applied for a lectureship at Bradford
University Law School where I started teaching employment
law and EU law as well as English legal systems. Over the last
few years I have tried to bring a socio-legal approach to all the
modules I teach and have therefore made significant changes to
all the courses I am involved in. I also developed, together with
a colleague Fran Wright (now at the Australian National
University), a module we called law and society which explores
different approaches to law and legal education and encourages
students to reflect on their own education to date. Last year I
took over our legal skills course allowing me to introduce
students to socio-legal material from the start of the course and
help them develop the skills they need to work with a wide
range of sources.
My research has continued to focus on EU-related aspects
and EU citizenship, conceptualisations of family in EU law and
equality law issues in particular. In 2009 I completed the
postgraduate certificate in higher education practice and that
course gave me a platform to follow my other research interest
of legal education with more confidence. Having published two
autobiographical pieces about becoming a law lecturer and
having carried out work on the notions of ‘good teaching’ and
internationalisation in law, I am beginning to establish myself as
a legal education researcher. I am about to begin work which
considers the legal academy and academic identity in the
context of sexual orientation – watch this space.
In March 2013 I was promoted to senior lecturer and I am
excited to see where my journey takes me next.
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At its September 2013 meeting, the SLSA Executive
Committee decided to increase the SLSA grant fund to
£15,000 per year. This will be used to fund both research
grants and PhD fieldwork grants. Announcements of the
successful applicants in the 2013–14 round will be made
in the spring issue of the newsletter.
In this issue, three grantholders report back on their completed
projects. Anthea Hucklesby looked into pre-charge police bail;
Emily Grabham explored HIV and equality; and Geth Rees
examined the social construction of forensic sleep expertise.
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Pre-charge bail – police bail for further investigations – has
recently been in the news and its legitimacy questioned. The
first concerns were raised in relation to a court ruling in the
spring/summer of 2011 about whether periods on bail counted
as time spent in police detention under the Police and Criminal
Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) (Greater Manchester Police v (1)
Hookway, (2) Salford Magistrates' Court [2011] EWHC 1578
(Admin)). The ruling jeopardised long-standing police practices
and meant that suspects could have been unlawfully subject to
bail but was quickly dealt with by way of emergency legislation.
The second, more recent, concerns focused upon the length of
time some suspects are on bail awaiting the outcome of
enquiries and related particularly to a number of high-profile
celebrities awaiting decisions in relation to allegations of sexual
offences. These events highlighted two issues: firstly, the limited
awareness of the powers police have to bail suspects for what
may be extensive periods of time whilst subject to conditions
without sufficient evidence to charge and, secondly, the paucity
of data or research about the use of pre-charge bail.
The research reported here commenced before either of the
two events outlined above took place. It aimed to examine the
use of pre-charge bail in one police force using a mixed-method
empirical approach (observations, analysis of quantitative data,
interviews and questionnaires) and was partly funded by an
SLSA small grant. The findings have been reported to the
relevant force which has implemented an action plan on the
basis of the recommendations. The research is currently being
replicated in a second force area to increase the study’s
reliability and validity and to work with police forces to
improve the operation of this extensively used, and little
researched, police power.
On the one hand, pre-charge bail is a due process right
ensuring that suspects are not detained in police custody for
excessive periods of time whilst evidence is gathered. On the
other hand, it is open to abuse through its inappropriate or
excessive use particularly when, what can be, restrictive
conditions are imposed. No data are kept nationally on the use
of pre-charge bail but it has been estimated that around 80,000
suspects are on bail at any one time in England and Wales
(House of Commons 2011) but its use varies between police
forces (Doyle 2013). The research found that pre-charge bail was
a commonly and frequently used police power. Its use has
increased recently due to the greater complexity of
investigations and new investigatory techniques. However, the
correlation between changing techniques of investigation and
increasing use of pre-charge bail was not only direct. The
importance of attaining a conviction to police culture
(McConville et al 1991) fuels the use of pre-charge bail. Whilst
improved forensic techniques and greater use of data-mining
have increased the necessity of pre-charge bail, it has also
improved the probability of evidence coming to light to
charge/convict suspects even when the likelihood appears to be
extremely remote initially. Consequently, the research found
that, however unlikely a positive outcome was, officers claimed
that they would send material for analysis or wait for CCTV
evidence, and so on, and bail suspects in the intervening period
because ‘there was always a chance’ of evidence coming to light
which would lead to a conviction. For these and other reasons,
officers viewed pre-charge bail as an extremely useful power
which worked well, enabling them to carry out their work
effectively. In fact, it was viewed as a necessity.
Officers spoke of a multiplicity of functions of pre-charge
bail which fell within the letter, if not the original intention of,
the law. Whilst some officers accepted that other mechanisms
could be used to reach similar ends, such as refusing charge and
rearresting on fresh evidence when necessary, these were not
supported uniformly in the same way as pre-charge bail because
the processes and outcomes were not as certain. This suggests
that there would be considerable barriers to any attempts to
restrict the use of pre-charge bail.
The research supported others’ views (Home Office 2007)
that the law relating to pre-charge bail is complicated and
opaque. Several sections of PACE (sections 34(5), 37(2), 37(7))
regulate bail in the period before charge and which sections
should be used when and the process of moving from one type
of bail to another was unclear leading to differential practices. It
was also apparent that pre-charge bail is an enabling police
power which allows officers to use it in a wide variety of
circumstances and for disparate reasons. The law in no way
constrains or restricts what the police are able to do, allowing
them to operate according to their working assumptions and
rules, which in turn reinforces current working practices in
relation to bail.
The research concluded that the invisibility of and lack of
attention on pre-charge bail decisions had allowed it to become
a police power that is widely used, often correctly, whilst at the
same time being open to abuse. Nonetheless, its use causes
considerable concerns and uncertainties for those subject to it
and opens up the police to allegations of misuse and
discrimination and raises questions of legitimacy. In this
context, a thorough review of pre-charge bail is long overdue.
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References
Doyle, J (2013) ‘57,000 suspects are left in bail limbo as police “drag their
feet” with one man waiting three-and-a-half years to find out if he
will be charged’, Daily Mail 28 May 2013
wwww.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332119/57-000-suspects-
left-bail-limbo-police-drag-feet-man-waiting-half-years-
charged.html#ixzz2Xo1cJ3yI
Home Office (2007) Modernising Police Powers: Review of Police and
Criminal Evidence Act 1984, Consultation Paper, Home Office
House of Commons (2011) Explanatory Notes, Police (Detention and
Bail) Bill 2011, para 8 wwww.publications.parliament.uk/
pa/bills/cbill/2010-2012/0216/en/2012216en.htm
McConville, M, Sanders, A and Leng, R (1991) The Case for the
Prosecution, Routledge
Social and Legal Studies 23(1)
A ‘special’ delivery? Exploring the impact of screens, live-links
and video-recorded evidence on mock juror deliberation in
rape trials – Louise Ellison and Vanessa E Munro
Spatializing religious freedom: inhabiting the legal frontier
between ethnic and national rights – Diana Bocarejo
Criminal justice and Cape law’s persons – George Pavlich
Knowing women: translating patriarchy in international
criminal law – Doris E Buss
The fixation on wartime rape: feminist critique and
international criminal law – Nicola Henry
The synthetic necessary truth behind New Labour’s
criminalisation of incest – James A Roffee
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Emily Grabham, University of Kent, £1300
The SLSA generously awarded me funding in 2012 for this
project on law and time, which investigated how HIV ‘futures’
were constructed in UK employment equality law in the late
1990s. Operating in a climate of persistent, and generalised,
misunderstanding about the potential transmission risks of HIV
in the late 1990s and early 2000s, many HIV-positive workers in
the UK faced employment discrimination and/or dismissal.
Between 1996 (when the Disability Discrimination Act came into
force) and 2005 (when HIV was automatically recognized as a
disability), it was necessary to show that HIV was a long-term
condition with a serious effect on day-to-day life in order to
prove that it was a disability. Much of this was about legal
constructions of time. It required matching up the legal concept
of ‘likelihood’ with the medical concept of a ‘prognosis’, an
exercise fraught with professional and epistemological
difficulties, which took place against wider social expectations
of HIV-related ‘decline’ or ‘crisis’. Multiple temporalities were
thus at play, raising questions (which I am still pondering) about
the construction of legal temporalities across multiple fields and
sites, involving a range of human and nonhuman actors.
The SLSA funding enabled me to conduct 12 interviews over
spring and summer 2012 with UK-based lawyers, legal activists
and policy specialists working in the area of HIV and
employment in the late 1990s. Interviews were semi-structured
and focused on the temporal concepts arising from medico-legal
understandings of treatment, disease, impairment and the life
course associated with HIV. Following useful feedback from the
grant committee, I also consulted legal and policy papers and
placed the research within the context of broader medical, social
and legal developments. Additionally, I developed an
analogous project focusing on legal developments in Ontario,
Canada, during the same time period, which incorporated
interviews with clinicians, as well as research into the lives of
key activists. Much of the research was conducted whilst on
sabbatical leave from Kent Law School, visiting the Institute for
Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School, and I thank
colleagues at both institutions for their generosity. This project
has also benefitted greatly from conversations and intensive
feedback at meetings of the AHRC Technoscience, Law and
Society Research Network, co-ordinated by Emilie Cloatre and
Martyn Pickersgill. The SLSA-funded research has contributed
to one chapter in an edited collection (Cloatre and Pickersgill
(2013) Knowledge, Technology and Law: At the intersection of socio-
legal and science and technology studies, Taylor & Francis) and will
form the basis for two chapters in an upcoming monograph
Doing Things with Time: Legal temporalities in equality projects
(under contract with University of Toronto Press).
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Geth Rees, University of Southampton, £1900
The study was inspired by a number of media reports from
2008 onwards, concerning the success of the ‘sleepwalking’
defence in rape and sexual offence cases. Following my
previous ethnographic work investigating the collection and
use of forensic medicine in rape and sexual assaults, I was
interested in the ways that sleep medicine was enrolled in these
types of cases, in particular the ways that sleep experts were
able to collect and present evidence that substantiated or
undermined a suspect’s ‘sleepwalking’ defence. The study was
predominantly based upon documentary analysis of medical
and legal journal articles, supported by interviews with sleep
technicians and sleep experts about the forensic aspects of their
work; it was this latter aspect of the study that was enabled by
funding from the SLSA.
The specific diagnosis of ‘sexsomnia’ came to prominence
following the publication of 11 clinical case histories of persons
who engage in sexual behaviours while unconscious (Shapiron
et al 2003). Often labelled as sleepwalking, sexsomnia is actually
a different condition that falls under the heading of a
parasomnia (abnormal sleep behaviour). A sleeper may be
awoken from ‘deep’ sleep (but not conscious; this is often
termed ‘arousal’ but should not be confused with sexual
arousal) by a triggering factor and perform sexual behaviours.
In some cases this has been known to interact with
sleepwalking, with a sleepwalking behaviour followed by a
sexsomnia episode.
There is agreement amongst sleep experts that there should
be a clinical test to identify malingerers; however, there is
substantial disagreement over the content of that test. In R v
Bilton (unreported – see Ebrahim 2006), a clinical test was
employed which incorporated the taking of a case history, a
clinical history (both from Bilton and his family/ex-partners)
and a three-night recording of his sleeping patterns
(polysomnography), especially the number of arousals from
‘deep’ sleep under a range of conditions, including
intoxication. The test sparked a controversy over its validity
and, in particular, whether intoxication can be a trigger for a
sexsomnia episode.
The triggering factor is clearly important; because acts
conducted while sleepwalking come under the insanity
defence, an assessment must be made as to whether the event
was caused internally or externally. In Bilton’s case, while the
clinical investigation highlighted his sleep apnoea (an internal
cause), his prior self-intoxication could also have precipitated
his behaviour (an external cause). Conversely, some sleep
experts do not consider intoxication a trigger for parasomnias,
stating that forgotten sexual acts are more likely the result of
‘alcoholic blackout’. Self-induced intoxication has played a
part in every sexsomnia case since 2005 (that I have collected);
these controversies over whether it can trigger sleep
behaviours and whether forgotten events are the effect of
alcoholic blackout will continue to rage and it is difficult to see
a resolution to the debate.
While the Law Commission’s recent recommendations for a
new defence of ‘not responsible by reason of a recognised
medical condition’ go a long way towards clearing up the issues
relating to conditions like parasomnias, they do not yet
sufficiently address the confusion around self-intoxication, risk
and sexsomnia. I would like to see more research that attempts
to clear up the intoxication question to enable justice for those
with the condition as well as the victims of sexual crime.
References
Ebrahim, I O (2006) ‘Somnambulistic sexual behaviour (sexsomnia)’
Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine 13:219–24
Shapiron, C M, Trajanovic, N N and Fedoroff, J P (2003) ‘Sexsomnia – a
new parasomnia’ Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 48:311–17
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The SLSA sponsors one-day conferences of interest to the
socio-legal community. Events should be self-funding,
although the SLSA is prepared to underwrite them to a
limited extent and also provides endorsement.
Past conference themes have included: socio-legal studies
and the humanities; ethics; innocence projects; exploring the
‘socio’ of socio-legal studies; exploring the ‘legal’ of socio-
legal studies; and doing, funding, teaching – socio-legal
scholarship. Details can be found on the SLSA website at
wwww.slsa.ac.uk and follow the events link.
If you have an idea for a one-day conference, please
contact the SLSA chair or a member of the Executive
Committee for an informal discussion (details on page 2).
Please submit your proposal by 31 December 2013 for
discussion at the January meeting of the Executive
Committee.
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Brian Dempsey, former chair of Abused Men in Scotland
(AMIS) and lecturer, School of Law, University of Dundee,
highlights the key findings of a new research report on the
experiences of men in Scotland of domestic abuse.
In 2012 the Scottish Government Equality Unit provided a small
amount of capacity-building funding to the domestic abuse
support organisation AMIS and as part of that project AMIS
commissioned a review of relevant literature to provide an
evidence-base for work with men who have experienced
domestic abuse. The result, Men’s Experience of Domestic Abuse in
Scotland: What we know and how we can know more, is a survey of
more than 400 academic, policy and practitioner texts. Although
focused on Scotland, the evidence in relation to men’s
experience of domestic abuse is likely to be indicative of the
position in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the
conclusions in relation to how future research should be
undertaken and how service providers should act to ensure that
all those who experience domestic abuse are supported are
intended to be relevant to all jurisdictions.
My approach was to identify first Scottish and then rest-of-
UK academic policy and practitioner literature on men’s
experience of domestic abuse; this was relatively straightforward
as there is very limited specific material. The fairly extensive
material supposedly on domestic abuse as a whole was
examined and found to contain very little engagement with the
experiences of abused men or with the impact this abuse has on
any children who are affected by that abuse. The range was then
extended to include materials on men’s experiences from any
jurisdiction, which brought in important, though again limited,
qualitative material from the US.
From my experience as an access to justice and lesbian, gay,
bisexual and trans (LGBT) rights activist, as well as several years
teaching and researching in family law, I was aware of issues
such as barriers to accessing services, unhelpful approaches of,
for example, criminal prosecutors, the effects of hegemonic
masculinity and the importance of intersectionality explored in
the literature on women’s experience of domestic abuse. This
awareness led me to conduct specific searches for literature on,
for instance, barriers to men’s help-seeking from medical and
social support services, self-harm through alcohol abuse and
suicide, and also on the possible impact of factors such as class,
race, disability and sexual orientation.
A major barrier to establishing the reality of men’s
experience of domestic abuse is what Donovan and Hester call
the ‘public story’ of domestic abuse, that is that ‘[t]he public
story about domestic violence locates the phenomenon inside
heterosexual relationships within a gendered
victim/perpetrator dynamic (the stronger/bigger man
controlling the weaker/smaller woman)’ (2010:281). Donovan
and Hester argue that this ‘public story’ does harm to the
interests of people in same-sex relationships who may fear being
disbelieved if they report that they are experiencing domestic
abuse, or indeed may not be able to identify even to themselves
that they are experiencing abuse because they and their
relationship do not fit the ‘public story’.
I would suggest that this ‘public story’ not only does harm to
gay and bisexual men but also to trans men and heterosexual men
and, importantly, to all of the children living in families where an
adult male relative or carer is being abused. This is confirmed by
my review of the literature which, for example, reveals a lack of
data on men’s experiences and a lack of interest in investing in
effective methods of capturing such data, an absence of specialist
services and mainstream services, such as those provided by the
NHS and local aut horities conceived of and adver tised as
‘violence against women’ services, and government statements
supposedly on domestic abuse but which present the issue
exclusively as men’s violence against women.
Despite the negative impact of the ‘public story’ and the lack
of support mechanisms to aid reporting, the proportion of
reports to the police of men as ‘victims’ of domestic abuse in
Scotland has increased every year over the last 10 years to the
point where 18.6 per cent of all reports where the gender of the
victim is recorded are from men (Scottish Government 2013). Of
these, 94 per cent were men in mixed-sex and 6 per cent in same-
sex relationships. The Scottish government also estimates that
domestic abuse incidents against men are more than 2.5 times
less likely to come to the attention of the police than such
incidents against women (Scottish Government 2011).
There is also somewhat more textured information to be
found in the most recent subject-specific analysis of the Scottish
Crime and Justice Survey (Scottish Government 2011). This
shows that the types of physical and psychological abuse
experienced by men and women is largely the same (a few, such
as being choked or being forced to engage in sexual intercourse
are almost entirely only experienced by women) and that the
types of psychological impact are the same. What differs by
gender is the number of reports which therefore leads to a
difference in the proportions when broken down by gender.
So, for example, psychological partner abuse since age 16
was reported by 10 per cent of men and 17 per cent of women
with men on average reporting just over two types of
psychological abuse while women reported between three and
four types of abuse. Sixty-five per cent of women and 45 per
cent of men reported at least one psychological impact resulting
from the abuse they had experienced in the previous
12 months.
While it is apparent that gender is a significant factor in
relation to domestic abuse victimisation, the fact that the types
of abuse and impacts experienced are similar and that the
proportion of such abuse is generally 1:4 to 1:3/men:women
undermines conclusions that domestic abuse must be treated as
overwhelmingly an issue of men’s violence against women.
Services, including legal and court services, must therefore take
account of men’s experiences if they are to attempt to provide an
adequate response to the issue of domestic abuse. These
conclusions in relation to all men are supported by research into
gay and bisexual men’s experience of domestic abuse
(eg Donovan et al 2006), by the limited qualitative research we
have on men’s experience of domestic abuse in the UK
(eg Brogden and Nijar 2004) and by qualitative research
on heterosexual men’s experiences from America (eg Hines
et al 2007). In addition, the limited evidence found in the
literature has been confirmed in the recent public
dissemination discussion events organised to launch the
review in which service providers, including solicitors,
have stated that they are aware of the problem of
domestic abuse against men and of the lack of recognition and
lack of services.
However, such evidence is often met with scepticism from
those whose experience is in researching men’s violence
against women. In Scotland, two pieces of research in
particular continue to be presented as establishing that men’s
experience of domestic abuse is both less common and less
problematic than might be claimed by those who would argue
for recognition of and services for abused men (eg McFeely et
al 2013): these are a major report by David Gadd and
colleagues (2002), commissioned by the Scottish government,
and an article by long-time violence against (heterosexual)
women researchers Rebecca and Russell Dobash (2004). Stated
very briefly, the difficulty with using Dobash and Dobash in
this way is that not only does their article discount significant
levels of violence perpetrated by the female partner in the 95
mixed-sex couples studied but, rather astonishingly, they draw
firm, broad conclusions about men’s and women’s experiences
of domestic abuse generally based on their rather particular
socio-legal research
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sample where in each couple the man had been convicted of
domestic abuse crimes against his partner.
Gadd et al is rather more useful and does show that some of
the men who indicated in the Scottish Crime Survey 2000 that
they had experienced domestic abuse were in fact mistaken.
However, having established that lack of knowledge led to false
positive reports of domestic abuse, there is very little
engagement with the possibility that there may be many more
false negative responses. Similarly some of the categorisation of
the men who maintained that they were victims seems unduly
harsh – for example, male victims were asked if they could think
of times where their abuser might have felt threatened by them
and, if a man responded that he could not recall any such
instance, but that it was possible that the abuser might have felt
threatened at some point, then that was sufficient to have the
man classified as a ‘retaliator’. The limitations of such research,
especially those in relation to Dobash and Dobash, are not
mentioned when it is cited by those asserting that it is proof that
claims of men’s experience of domestic abuse are exaggerated
(eg McFeely et al 2013).
The contribution made by men’s violence against women
researchers to our understanding of heterosexual women’s
experience of domestic abuse and wider gender dynamics is an
enormously important academic and political contribution and
I draw heavily on those contributions in my own work on men’s
experiences. However, I would argue that much of the research
which purports to provide evidence in favour of constructing
domestic abuse as overwhelmingly a matter of violence against
women fails to recall the hard-won lessons of feminist research;
statistics which indicate low levels of reporting and help-
seeking are taken at face value without being put into the
context of an absence of services or of social barriers to accessing
services and the fear of being disbelieved; the ‘voices’ of victims
are not effectively sought out let alone respected; support
services, where they exist, are not used for collaborative
research and ‘men’ are often treated as a single category without
recognition of the implications of also being, for example, a
father, or being trans, or disabled or older, or from a particular
racial or cultural group.
There is also a tendency in this literature to attempt to
polarise the debate into a majority camp which sees domestic
abuse as overwhelmingly a problem of men’s violence against
women and a minority camp which makes apparently extreme
and certainly counter-intuitive claims that there is gender parity
in the extent and intensity of domestic abuse as experienced by
men and women (eg McFeely et al 2013). The evidence indicates
that this attempt at polarising does not reflect the reality of the
debate in Scotland or, as far as I can establish, in the UK.
I would urge that future research on men’s experience of
domestic abuse, whether of all men or particular groups of men,
must be informed by good quality feminist research and include
consideration of the negative impact of, for example, hegemonic
masculinity and of the ‘public story’ of domestic abuse on
abused men. The important insights from work on the
experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people’s
experiences of domestic abuse must also be given greater
respect and acknowledgment (eg Robson 1992; Donovan et al
2006; Dempsey 2010; Dempsey 2011). It seems to me that it
would be difficult to say anything meaningful about men’s
experience of domestic abuse without engaging with the work
of Denise Hines and her colleagues at the American National
Institutes of Health-funded Men’s Experiences with Partner
Aggression Project which is the richest seam of qualitative
material that we currently have (eg Hines and Douglas 2010;
Douglas and Hines 2011).
Men’s Experience of Domestic Abuse in Scotland: What we know
and how we can know more is available on the AMIS website
wwww.amis.org.uk.
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References
Brogden, M and Nijhar, S K (2004) Abuse of Adult Males in Intimate
Partner Relationships in Northern Ireland, OFMDFM
Dempsey, B (2010) ‘Trans people’s experience of domestic abuse’
SCOLAG 208–12
Dempsey, B (2011) ‘Gender neutral laws and heterocentric policies’
Edinburgh Law Review 15:381–405
Dobash, R P and Dobash, R E (2004) ‘Women’s violence to men in
intimate relationships’ British Journal of Criminology 44:324–49
Donovan, C and Hester, M (2010) ‘I hate the word “victim”’ Social Policy
and Society 9:279–90
Donovan, C et al (2006) Comparing Domestic Abuse in Same Sex and
Heterosexual Relationships, Universities of Sunderland and Bristol
Douglas, E M and Hines, D A (2011) ‘The helpseeking experiences of
men who sustain intimate partner violence’ Journal of Family
Violence 26:473–85
Gadd, D et al (2002) Domestic Abuse against Men in Scotland, Scottish
Executive
Hines, D A and Douglas, E M (2010) ‘A closer look at men who sustain
intimate terrorism by women’ Partner Abuse 1:286–313
Hines, D A et al (2007) ‘Characteristics of callers to the domestic abuse
helpline for men’ Journal of Family Violence 22:63–72
McFeely, C et al (2013) Domestic Abuse and Gender Inequality,
CRFR/GBVRN
Robson, R (1992) Lesbian (Out)law, Firebrand
Scottish Government (2011) 2010/2011 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey:
Partner abuse, Scottish Government
Scottish Government (2013) Domestic Abuse Recorded by the Police in
Scotland, 2012–13, Scottish Government
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The UK spousal visa system adversely affects immigrant
women living in Scotland who are experiencing domestic
abuse, writes Elaine McLaughlin of Glasgow Caledonian
University.
Women who migrate to Scotland from the South-Asian sub-
continent1for the purposes of marriage face a number of
immigration barriers, not least those imposed upon them by the
UK spousal visa system. Since July 2012, women are issued with
a five-year visa (previously two years) to enter the UK as the
spouse of a British citizen or as the spouse of an individual
previously admitted for settlement.2During the five-year period
the migrant spouse is denied access to public funds. Upon
completion of the five-year period the husband of the migrant
spouse is able to apply to the Home Office for his wife to achieve
permanent residency.
Immigration Rules also require the husband of the migrant
spouse to evidence a minimum income of £18,600 to sponsor his
wife and this figure increases where there are children of the
marriage. In practice, these new financial rules mean that
women might enter the UK separated from their children. The
inequity of this situation was considered in MM and Others v
Secretary of State for the Home Department.3The three claimants in
the case argued that they were unable to sponsor their spouses
under the financial maintenance requirements. Mr Justice Blake
stated that, in the case of sponsors who are British Citizens or
refugees, the income threshold rule was a grossly
disproportionate interference with the right of the affected
persons to live their family life within the UK. Significantly, one
of the parties, a female British citizen of Pakistani origin, argued
that the minimum income requirements were unjustifiably
discriminatory as they impacted upon women and, in
particular, Asian women. Socio-economic data demonstrate that
Asian women receive significantly lower rates of pay and
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employment than others, notably men. Since this decision, the
Home Office has lodged an appeal and subsequently ‘paused’
all spousal applications where the income requirement is the
only possible reason for the refusal.
These obstructions exacerbate the difficulties which arise
following the breakdown of the marriage, in particular where
the breakdown is as a consequence of domestic abuse.
Immigrant women have no legal status upon entry to the UK. If
they are unemployed, their position is further exacerbated by
the no-recourse-to-public-funds stipulation, rendering them
dependent upon their husbands, partners and extended family.
Furthermore, immigrant women are often unaware of their legal
rights in the UK. Overall, they experience unequal protection
within the current legislative framework due to the number of
socio-legal barriers they face.
Looking specifically at women who migrate to Scotland
from the South-Asian sub-continent, marriage migration
increases their vulnerability due to the controlling mechanisms
and subservience within family networks which are corporate in
their nature. Within this structure women are increasingly
vulnerable as they are dependent upon and at the mercy of their
husbands, extended family and community, as a consequence of
which they can become isolated and marginalised. Many
immigrant women are from cultures where domestic abuse is
tolerated and condoned and are unaware that the treatment
they are enduring is illegal and that some support is available.
Some progress was made when the Destitution Domestic
Violence Concession (DDV) was introduced into immigration
policy in April 2012. Immigrant women experiencing domestic
abuse can apply for leave to remain outside the Immigration
Rules as a victim of domestic abuse. Only immigrant women
who are spousal visa holders can access this concession. The
Home Office requires evidence of the immigrant woman’s
spousal visa status, that she is financially destitute, that the
marriage has broken down due to domestic abuse and that she
intends to make an application under the rules as a victim of
domestic abuse. The Home Office will issue exceptional leave
outside the rules if the eligibility criteria are met. The Home
Office will cancel the spousal visa and the no-recourse-to-
public-funds stipulation and issue exceptional leave outside the
rules, allowing immigrant women access to housing and
benefits for a period of three months. During the three-month
period the immigrant woman must make an application for
indefinite leave to remain as a victim of domestic abuse.
The DDV has the possibility of being viewed as a ‘silver-
lining’ approach for immigrant women experiencing domestic
abuse. Indeed, Lord Justice Dyson in Ishtiaq v the Secretary of
State for the Home Department4stated ‘spouses and partners who
are victims of domestic violence should not feel constrained to
remain in abusive situations for two years solely to qualify for
indefinite leave to remain’.5
However, a number of constraints are still easily identified
which prevent immigrant women from leaving an abusive
relationship and seeking redress under the DDV. For instance,
in order to satisfy the DDV, an immigrant woman must
establish that domestic abuse is the substantial factor in the
breakdown of the marriage. Since 1999 the evidence required is
in the form of an injunction, non-molestation order or other
protection order made against the sponsor; a court conviction
against the sponsor; or a police caution issued against the
sponsor. However, from 2002, if evidence of some form of court
order or police caution is not available, more than one form of
evidence will be accepted provided it is: a letter from a GP who
has examined the woman and is satisfied her injuries are
consistent with being the victim of domestic violence; an
undertaking given to a court that the perpetrator will not
approach the woman; a police report confirming attendance at
the home of the applicant; a letter from social services setting out
their involvement; or a letter of support or report from a
women's refuge.
The evidential requirements are the most difficult for
immigrant women to satisfy as they lack knowledge of
immigration law, legal protection and available specialised
support. Many experience linguistic difficulties rendering it
impossible for them to articulate the gravity of their situation.
They are therefore unable to access support from specialised
agencies, the police and health practitioners.
There is a good deal of research regarding violence against
women in the UK, however, there is an absence of literature and
research within the Scottish jurisdiction in this area. The Scottish
government has publicly acknowledged that, where domestic
abuse is concerned, ‘there is little available evidence recorded on
the experiences of minority ethnic women . . . and what research
has been undertaken recognises that there are specific issues
which need to be addressed’.6What we do know is that
immigrant women experiencing domestic abuse are restricted as
to how they manage and go about their daily lives. They are
confined to cultures dominated by patriarchy and matriarchy as
a result of which they assume subordinate roles. They become
marginalised and ostracised within their family and community
if they fail to conform to cultural traditions and expectations.
Domestic abuse is considered a problem that can be resolved by
familial intervention rather than legal intervention and, in this
context, immigrant women place their family and community
identity before their gender identity. Additionally, Immigration
Rules are used by perpetrators as controlling mechanisms and
as a result immigrant women fear being deported due to their
insecure immigration status.
The issues raised here are of significance as they
contextualise the hurdles and predicaments encountered by
immigrant women, subject to the UK spousal visa system, who
experience marital breakdown as a consequence of domestic
abuse. Immigration Rules here demonstrate the absence of a
suitable gender perspective. That is, immigration law and
policy-making are gender blind as they fail to reflect the social
reality of immigrant women subject to the UK spousal visa
system thereby placing them at a disadvantage. This is
significant where research concludes that domestic abuse affects
primarily women, but pays no heed to issues of culture, class,
ethnicity or economic status.
A closer examination of the connection between domestic
abuse and the existing legislation affecting immigrant women
living in Scotland with an insecure immigration status is
required. It is essential that the social reality and the unique and
practical difficulties immigrant women endure as a result of
their immigration status are made visible. It is apparent that
current UK immigration law is exclusionary and has a
significant impact upon immigrant women whose marriages
deteriorate as a consequence of domestic abuse. It is further
apparent that at the very least an equality impact assessment is
required in relation to the spousal visa immigration system.
There is a need for vulnerable immigrant women experiencing
domestic abuse to be protected by the legal and welfare system
and this need should outweigh the political ramifications of the
need to control immigration.
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Notes
1 For the purpose of the research I am focusing on women from the
South Asian sub-continent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and
Sri Lanka).
2 The Immigration Rules also apply to a civil partner, unmarried or
same-sex partner of a British citizen or person present and settled in
the UK.
5 Ibid p 30.
6 Scottish Government (2009) Safer Lives: Changed Lives – A shared
approach to tackling violence against women in Scotland, p 2.
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A pivotal stage has been reached in a two-year collaboration
between Professor Alice Bloch at the Department of Sociology at
Manchester University (formerly at City University, London)
and Professor Sonia McKay and Dr Leena Kumarappan at the
Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan
University.
They have been working, since October 2011, on the
UndocNet * project exploring the labour market experiences and
aspirations of undocumented migrants from different countries
of origin – Bangladesh, China and Turkey (including Kurds),
people from Northern Cyprus, as well as with minority ethnic
entrepreneurs in London from the same countries of origin –
and have now completed their fieldwork, with almost 80 in-
depth, face-to-face interviews conducted in London.
Members of the research team have been presenting early
findings at major conferences in the UK and abroad, including
at this year’s SLSA conference in York. A key concern has been
to understand the basis of decisions to use or not to use co-ethnic
networks in the search for work in or out of ethnic enclaves,
from the perspectives of workers and employers. But through
the research we have also been looking at a range of other issues,
including how undocumented migrants perceive legal advice
and support; how employers rationalise their use (or non-use) of
undocumented migrants; and how work is organised in
different sectoral conditions.
The team is also investigating the ways in which migrants
and their employers use their social networks and other
resources in relation to work and how working relationships
operate within frameworks of ethnicity, class and gender. The
project will be completed by the end of 2013 with a conference
on 6 December. The research team will also be producing a
number of short key-findings documents and some policy-
focused papers in the period leading up to the conference.
Researchers will also be engaging with stakeholder bodies,
including migrant organisations, to make sure that the research
findings are widely disseminated.
If you would like further information on UndocNet, contact
Dr Leena Kumarappan el.kumarappan@londonmet.ac.uk or go
to the project website at wwww.undocnet.org.
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Dr Naomi Creutzfeldt-Banda of the Centre for Socio-Legal
Studies, Oxford, has been awarded a three-year ESRC Future
Research Leaders Fellowship to explore the impact and
legitimacy of ombudsmen in Europe. This project allows her to
pursue, in great depth, one of her main research interests in
ombudsmen decision-making and procedural justice from a
comparative socio-legal perspective. She joined the Research
Programme in European and Comparative Civil Justice Systems
in 2010 and previous research has been exploring out-of-court
settlement mechanisms for consumers in Europe.
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Sue Farran and Rhona Smith (Northumbria University,
Newcastle) hosted a successful one-day symposium at the
Northern Design Centre, Newcastle, on 11 September 2013,
under the heading ‘On the edge of adulthood’. Locating
discussion against the background of the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child and in particular the rights of children to
protection from harm, freedom from discrimination, the right to
participation and the right to be provided for with the
necessities of life, the focus was on how these rights translate in
practice for those young people who are on the ‘edge of
adulthood’, that is 16 and 17-year-olds. The symposium brought
together participants from non-governmental organisations,
charitable organisations, local government, the police and
student groups as well as academics and practitioners with
expertise in the broad areas of youth and access to justice and
was supported by seed-corn funding from Northumbria
University. The event was opened by a keynote address from
Sir Al Ay nsley Gre en, forme r Childre n’s Commi ssioner i n
England, under the heading ‘Are we failing children on a grand
scale?’. There was plenty of discussion and further presentations
throughout the day (see whttp://ontheedgeofadulthood.
wordpress.com) and the symposium finished with an inspiring
presentation by a young Prince’s Trust Ambassador, who had
just successfully launched her own bu siness ventu re and
secured a massive order from Rod Stewart’s wife at the opening
of the Prince’s Trust London store! The symposium was part of
a wider ongoing research project under the ‘On the edge of
adulthood’ theme which has included a poster presentation at
the Society of Legal Scholars’ conference in Edinburgh in
September and a panel session at the ‘Law on the edge’
conference in Vancouver in July 2013.
We are keen to develop a network of researchers and those
engaged with this age group. Anyone interested in linking to
this or learning about future events can contact esue.farran
@northumbri.ac.uk or erhona.smith@northumbria.ac.uk.
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The Law and Society Association (LSA) has implemented a new
‘member spotlight’ section on its website as a way to highlight a
new book that has been published by a current LSA member.
The spotlight is on the LSA homepage and links to a full-page
story on the book’s author. To request a spotlight for a member’s
recently published book, see wwww.lawandsociety.org/
spotlight/spotlight.html. Recent spotlighted authors have
included Mariana Valverde and David Nelken.
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This prize is dedicated to the late Professor Brian Williams,
co-editor of the British Journal of Community Justice since its
inception in 2002 until his untimely death in March 2007. Brian
introduced a commitment in the journal to publishing the
papers of new academic writers and, in particular, students
studying in the broad area of community and criminal justice.
The prize will be awarded to a previously unpublished student
studying in an academic area relevant to the journal. See
wwww.cjp.org.uk/brian-williams-memorial-prize. Closing
date: 31 December 2013.
North East Law Review
The North East Law Review (NELR) has recently been established
by Newcastle Law School students. The journal aims to provide
a platform for the publication of outstanding student articles.
The first volume is available at whttp://research.ncl.ac.uk/nelr
alongside our current legal issues blog whttps://blogs.
ncl.ac.uk/nelr.
The NELR has been successful so far with support from
former Deputy President of the Supreme Court Lord Hope of
Craighead and with blog contributions being used to stimulate
debate in a local sixth form. However, continued success and
development will not be possible without acquiring
sponsorship. The editorial board is currently seeking financial
support alongside blog contributions from anyone in the legal
community in order to ensure publication of our second
volume. If you are interested in providing sponsorship, or a blog
contribution, or would simply like more information, please
email esponsorship.nelr@ncl.ac.uk.
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The Nuffield Foundation has awarded funding for research at
the Law School, Cardiff University, for a project on health and
welfare cases in the Court of Protection, which was newly
established under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The principal
investigator is Professor Phil Fennell. Dr Lucy Series, Professor
Luke Clements and Dr Julie Doughty are also working on the
project. The research will use mixed qualitative and quantitative
methods to generate robust empirical data to inform discussion
and debate about the transparency, efficiency and accessibility
of the court. The project will also look at procedures in the
Mental Health Tribunals of England and Wales to consider
complementary and contrasting approaches. If you would like
further information about the project, please contact
efennell@cardiff.ac.uk.
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The book Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in
the Commonwealth: Struggles for decriminalisation and change was
launched in Toronto on 26 June 2013 during Pride week at the
event 'Sexuality, repression and the law', in partnership with the
unique global project 'Envisioning global LGBT human rights'
based at York University, Canada. Videos of the launch,
including chapter authors Matthew Waites (UK), Gary Kinsman
(Canada) and Monica Tabengwa (Botswana), and a film on
Botswana from the Envisioning project can be viewed online
and used in teaching and activism. A UK launch took place at
Senate House in London on 5 July 2013, including presentations
by chapter authors on Jamaica and Uganda. A video of Matthew
Waites' opening talk is also available. The videos and further
information about other related events, can be found online at
wwww.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/matthewwaites.
For full details of the book, see the ‘Publications’ section (right).
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The Centre for the Study of Law, Society and Popular Culture at
Westminster Law School has announced the latest events in its
yearly ‘Theory meets practice’ series including talks by music
lawyer Robert Allan, sports lawyer Daniel Geey and a session
with former Inspiral Carpet singer Tom Hingley. In addition,
centre member Professor Danny Nicol has announced a call for
papers for a symposium on ‘The Politics and law of Dr Who’ to
take place in September 2014 (see p 13).
Finally, submissions are also invited for both the
Entertainment and Sports Law Journal wwww2.warwick.ac.uk/
fac/soc/law/elj/eslj/ and the Routledge book series, ‘Studies in
Law, Society and Popular Culture’ w www.routledge.com/books/
series/RSLSPC.
Contact Guy Osborn eg.osborn@westminster.ac.uk, Steve
Greenfield es.greenfield@westminster.ac.uk or Mark James
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The Howard League for Penal Reform runs an internet-based
Early Career Academics Network (ECAN) with over 400
members. The network provides a regular channel of
communication and information about research and promotes
closer working and an interface between academics and
campaigners. Membership is free and those interested in fields
related to criminology, social policy, law, or the humanities are
invited to join. ECAN organises events and publishes a bulletin
three times a year featuring new research and providing
information about policy developments, resources and
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This special issue in the Studies in Law Economy and Society
series asks what role society can play in the regulation of
transnational risks, as an alternative to or at least significant
addition to reliance on state regulatory activity and the myth of
the self-regulatory capacity of markets. How can a social sphere
contribute to the prevention and management of risks, often
transnational in nature, posed by economic activity? Leading
socio-legal scholars explore whether and how the idea of
harnessing the regulatory capacity of a social sphere provides a
new analytical lens that can give fresh insights into
transnational risk regulation, and whether this idea helps to
identify innovative approaches to regulating transnational risks.
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Human rights in relation to sexual orientation and gender
identity are at last reaching the heart of global debates. Yet 78
states worldwide continue to criminalise same-sex sexual
behaviour and, due to the legal legacies of the British Empire, 42
of these – more than half – are in the Commonwealth of Nations.
In recent years, many states have seen the emergence of new
sexual nationalisms, leading to increased enforcement of
colonial sodomy laws against men, new criminalisations of sex
between women and discrimination against transgender people.
This volume challenges these developments and is the first book
to focus on experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
and intersex (LGBTI) and all non-heterosexual people in the
Commonwealth. It offers the most internationally extensive
analysis to date of the global struggle for decriminalisation of
same-sex sexual behaviour and relationships. Full details and
free online access are at whttp://events.sas.ac.uk/support-
research/publications/989/Human+Rights%2C+Sexual+Orien
tation+and+Gender+Identity+in+The+Commonwealth%3A+
Struggles+for+Decriminalisation+and+Change.
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This book explores the extent to which European legal norms of
refugee protection have been emulated in other parts of the
world and their future prospects. It includes case-study analysis
of global diffusion and emulation of European refugee law in
seven countries/continents, and discusses the evidence (or lack)
of emulation of European refugee law around the world and the
risk associated with transnational emulation.
Social and Legal Studies 22(4)
Penal statecraft in the Latin American city: assessing Mexico
City’s punitive urban democracy – Markus-Michael Müller
Unmanageable work, (un)liveable lives: the UK sex industry,
labour rights and the welfare state – Katie Cruz
Victims and transitional justice: voice, agency and blame –
Kieran McEvoy and Kirsten McConnachie
Justice through bureaucracy: the Ukrainian model – Marina
Kurkchiyan
What part of ‘illegal’ don’t you understand? The social
consequences of criminalizing unauthorized Mexican
migrants in the United States – Daniel Martinez
Crushing a walnut with a sledge hammer? Analysing the
penal response to the social supply of illicit drugs – Leah
Moyle, Ross Coomber and Jason Lowther
Review essay: ‘A land of rock, marshes and sand’? Forests,
orchards and legal inequality in Israel/Palestine
Tobias Kelly
publications
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This book provides students with a deep understanding of
environmental law while also encouraging critical reflection and
pointing out areas of controversy and debate. The authors
present an impressive range of extracts from UK, EU and
international cases, legislation and articles to help support
learning and demonstrate both how the law works in practice
and how it should or could work, clearly guiding students
through key areas while providing insightful explanations and
analysis. Topics have been carefully selected to support a wide
range of environmental law courses, within law schools and
beyond. These include pollution control, nature conservation,
climate change regulation, town planning and water regulation,
all incorporating aspects of law from local, UK, EU and
international legal cultures. With its unique combination of
extracts and author discussion, this new text provides a wide-
ranging, stimulating and fresh approach to environmental law,
which can be relied upon throughout your course and career.
This book is also accompanied by an Online Resource Centre
which features updates to the law, further reading suggestions
and useful weblinks.
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The rapidly changing nature of the UK criminal justice system in
light of the ongoing neoliberal turn prompted a group of
scholars active in the Department of Law, Criminology and
Community Justice's (LCCJ) Writing Group to ponder upon
contemporary ‘values’ in criminological research, theory, policy
and practice. What began as debates about ethics and values
slowly started to look more like the foundations for a dedicated
collection of writings. Authors took Howard Becker’s 1967
article: ‘Whose side are we on?’ as a point of reference to
investigate how values, ethics, morals and ‘sides’ function in
and around the criminal justice system. Fast forward two-and-a-
half years and we now have the result. Sixteen members of LCCJ
contributed to this collection, illustrating the multiple and, at
times, contradictory discourses about victims and offenders,
punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. A range
of issues are analysed across the 22 chapters, from traditional
ground, such as the prison, police and probation services,
through to more nascent areas of study such as ‘green
criminology’, critiques of neoliberalism, the ‘big society’,
economics of justice, desistance and the politics of contract
research. A launch is being organised at Hallam View, Sheffield
Hallam’s premier conference suite, on Wednesday 11 December
2013 (see page 13 for further details).
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This book explains why complexity is regarded as so
problematic for a system which at any single point in time
provides, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a degree
of support to half of the UK population. It discusses the
system’s role, structures, rules and reform and considers the
impact of complexity on adm inistrators and clai mants of
welfare benefits. It seeks to explain how and why complexity
in modern social security systems has grown; explore
theoretical perspectives on the nature of complexity; identifies
the different ways in which legal and associated administrative
arrangements are classifiable as ‘complex’ and how complexity
may be measured; discusses the effects of complexity and its
implications for rights and the citizen–state relationship; and
considers the role that law can play in the simplification of
schemes of welfare. While primarily focused on the UK
welfare system – and covering the Coalition government’s
Welfare Reform Act 2012, ‘universal credit’ scheme and
reforms to disability benefits, council tax support and the
social fund – it also examines policies and experience in
Australia, New Zealand and various European states.
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This study provides an overview of the worldwide best
practices for rape prevention and for assisting women victims of
rape. It reviews the international literature and offers selected
examples of promising practices. It addresses the
comprehensive range of policies in the fields of gender equality;
law and justice; economy, development and social inclusion;
culture, education and media; and health. It also presents a
wide-ranging set of examples of best practice and concludes
with a series of recommendations based on the social scientific
evidence presented in the study. This research report, which
was commissioned by the European Parliament, is available
from wwww.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/femm/
studies.html#menuzone.
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The House of Lords, for over 300 years the UK's highest court, was
transformed in 2009 into the UK Supreme Court. This book
provides a compelling and unrivalled view into the workings of the
court during its final decade and into the formative years of the
Supreme Court. Drawing on over 100 interviews, including more
than 40 with Law Lords and Justices and, uniquely, some of their
judicial notebooks, this is a landmark study of appellate judging
'from the inside' by an author whose earlier work on the House of
Lords has provided a scholarly benchmark for over 30 years.
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This book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the role of law
in modern capitalism in the context of the financial crisis. In this
work, the reader will find a discussion of key issues relevant to
the crisis that have occupied the pages of the financial press
since 2007 including an assessment of the meltdown of the sub-
prime mortgage market, the credit crunch, the European debt
crisis and the turmoil in Greece, plus a series of theoretical
contributions that are aimed at challenging perceptions of the
market–state relationship and the place of law within it.
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The Westminster Law Review is an online peer-reviewed journal
publishing material of a broad legal and interdisciplinary nature
by students, academics and professionals in the legal field. The
journal started as a London-based law journal but expanded in
2013, organising a series of events in the UK and abroad and a
National Article Writing Competition in India, which will lead
to a special issue in 2014. The journal invites submissions of
articles, book reviews and shorter pieces on legal or
interdisciplinary topics. The deadline for submissions is
31 December 2013. See wwww.westminsterlawreview.org/
about.php or email esubmissions@westminsterlawreview.org.
No Foundations is an international peer-reviewed journal
committed to publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship of
the highest quality at the interface between law and justice.
Contributions are encouraged from all areas of law and beyond,
with the aim of bridging the gap once opened between law and
other social and human activities and experiences. On the
assumption that law is a socially embedded phenomenon that
cannot be fully understood as an autonomous discipline, the
journal aims to connect law both with its real effects on the lives
of individuals and societies, and with the realm of human
aspirations and ideals that give it life and meaning. No
Foundations is currently accepting general submissions and book
reviews for NoFo 11 (June 2014). Closing date: 15 March 2013.
For more information, see wwww.helsinki.fi/nofo.
events
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11 December 2013: Sheffield Hallam University
Colleagues are invited to the launch of Values in Criminology and
Community Justice (Bristol: Policy Press 2013) by M Cowburn,
M Duggan, A Robinson and P Senior (eds). Please contact Marian
Duggan for further details em.duggan@shu.ac.uk.
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12—13 December 2013: University of Leeds
A workshop drawing together the diverse strands of scholarship in the
field of indigenous justice and governance. wwww.law.leeds.ac.uk/
research/events/spaces-of-indigenous-justice.php.
8
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13 December 2013: Osmani Trust, Osmani Centre, London
This one-day conference will critically examine and debate the role of
gender and ethnicity and its impact on mental health. Organised by
the Ethnic Health Initiative. wwww.bmehealth.org
8
 "   
16 December 2013: De Montfort University Leicester
This conference seeks to raise awareness nationally about responses
to domestic violence. Contact Vanessa Bettinson
evbettinson@dmu.ac.uk or Sarah Hilder eshilder@dmu.ac.uk.
8
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 !  
16 December 2013: Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion,
London School of Economics
This workshop will explore questions surrounding mixed methods
and methodologies of social policy research and the purpose and
potential of impact within such a context.
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 " 
31 January 2014: London School of Economics
Chair: Professor George Pavlakos; speaker: Professor Thomas Pink.
Hart Publishing and the editors of Jurisprudence have announced the
details of their annual Jurisprudence lecture. Places limited, early
booking advised. wwww.hartpub.co.uk/4thJurisprudencelecture.pdf.
8
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   
5 February 2014: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This event will explore ways in which law librarians and law teachers
can deliver legal research skills for students to apply throughout their
studies. wwww.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/
2014/Seminars/Social_Sciences/Gen834_reading
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22—24 March 2014: National Labour Institute, New Delhi, India
Organised by the Association of Indian Labour Historians and
VVGiri National Labour Institute. Theme: ‘A return to politics?’
whttp://socialhistory.org/en/events/conference-labour-history-
return-politics.
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13—15 April 2014: Queens Hotel Leeds
Proposals are invited on the theme ‘Responding to change’. Call
closes: 6 December 2013. wwww.lawteacher.ac.uk/events/?id=29
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   
29 April 2014: University of Winchester
This event will explore the way that information is used and shared
in today’s society. Call closes: 6 December 2013.
wwww.winchester.ac.uk/academicdepartments/Law/Centre%20for
%20Information%20Rights/Next%20Event/Pages/NextEvent.aspx.
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  
2—3 May 2014: University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Proposals are invited in any area of property law and society
scholarship. Call closes: 15 January 2014. wwww.alps.syr.edu
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15—17 May 2014: Caserta, Italy
Organised by the Centre for Research in Language and Law, this
symposium seeks to expand on the relationship between law and
language by exploring the role of legal discourse in a wide array of
settings. Closing date: 31 October 2013. wwww.erill.unina2.it
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   " 
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21—23 May 2014: Oñati International Institute for the
Sociology of Law
This international congress will celebrate the institute’s 25th
anniversary by reflecting upon and further developing the synergies
between the different layers of its communities: international,
regional and local. Call closes: 21 January 2014. wwww.iisj.net
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29 May—1 June 2014: Minneapolis Hilton Hotel, Minneapolis, USA
Theme: ‘Law and inequalities: global and local’.
wwww.lawandsociety.org/index.html
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 
3—6 June 2014: Centre of Excellence for International Courts,
University of Copenhagen
Theme: ‘Legal interpretation in practice of international courts and
tribunals’. Call closes: 28 February 2014.
whttp://jura.ku.dk/icourts/calendar/irsl2014
8
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6—8 June 2014: Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Canada
Theme: ‘Law's encounters: co-existing and contradictory norms and
systems’. Closing date: 15 January 2014. wwww.acds-clsa.org/
?q=en/content/clsa-2014-annual-meeting-call-papers
8
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8—9 June 2014: Columbia University, New York
The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced
graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in law and the
humanities. Call closes: 6 January 2014. whttp://web.law.columbia.edu/
law-culture/law-and-humanities-junior-scholar-workshop
8
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16—20 June 2014: Oslo, Norway
Theme: ‘Constitutional challenges: global and local’. Closing date:
30 March 2013. whttp://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2013/10/07/andrew-
le-sueur-iacl-ixth-world-congress-2014-call-for-papers
8
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19—20 June 2014: University College London
The conference will provide a UK-centred focus on the rapidly changing
legal aid and public facing (principally social welfare) legal services
market. Call closes: 31 January 2014. Early bird registration is now open:
closes 29 March 2014. whttps://ucl-a2j.eventbrite.co.uk
8
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 
10—12 July 2014: City Law School, London
Theme: ‘Legal ethics at a time of regulatory change’. Organised by the
International Legal Ethics Association. Closing date: 31 January 2014.
wwww.slsa.ac.uk/images/2013autumn/Call%20for%20Papers%20IL
EC6%20(1).doc
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5 September 2014: University of Westminster
Politics, law and constitutional questions often feature prominently in
Doctor Who stories yet the politics and law of Doctor Who have yet to
be the subject of wide-ranging scholarship. Call closes: 17 January
2014. wwww.westminster.ac.uk/law-society-popular-
culture/news/symposium-announcement-and-call-for-papers-the-
politics-and-law-of-doctor-who
slsa 2014 call for papers
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The call for papers for the 2014 SLSA annual conference is now
open. Abstracts are invited for the streams and themes listed
below. Details of the calls within each stream and theme are
available on the conference website: wwww.rgu.ac.uk/slsa2014.
If you have any questions about the suitability of your paper,
contact the relevant convenor using the details below. Abstracts
should be submitted via the submission system ‘EasyChair’:
wwww.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsa2014.
The deadline for submission is Monday 27 January 2014.
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Access to environmental justice
Gita Gill egita.gill@northumbria.ac.uk
Susan Wolf esusan.wolf@northumbria.ac.uk
Administrative justice
Richard Kirkham er.m.kirkham@sheffield.ac.uk
Art, culture and heritage
Janet Ulph ejanet.ulph@le.ac.uk
Charlotte Woodhead ec.c.woodhead@warwick.ac.uk
Banking and finance
Clare Chambers-Jones eclare.chambers@uwe.ac.uk
Mary Young emary.young@uwe.ac.uk
Challenging ownership: meanings, space and identity
Penny English epenny.english@anglia.ac.uk
Sarah Blandy es.blandy@sheffield.ac.uk
Francis King efrancis.king@anglia.ac.uk
Civil procedure and alternatives to litigation
Masood Ahmed emasood.ahmed@le.ac.uk
Criminal law and criminal justice
Vanessa Bettinson evbettinson@dmu.ac.uk
Ben Livings eben.livings@sunderland.ac.uk
European Union
Ian Kilbey eikilbey@dmu.ac.uk
Kathryn Wright ekathryn.wright@york.ac.uk
Family and children law and policy
Anne Barlow ea.e.barlow@exeter.ac.uk
Annika Newnhan eannika.newnham@port.ac.uk
Gender, sexuality and law
Chris Ashford echris.ashford@northumbria.ac.uk
Indigenous rights and minority rights
Sarah Sargent esarah.sargent@buckingham.ac.uk
Information technology law and cyberspace
Mark O’Brien emark.o'brien@uwe.ac.uk
Brian Simpson ebrian.simpson@une.edu.au
Intellectual property
Jasem Tarawneh ejasem.tarawneh@manchester.ac.uk
International criminal justice: theory, policy and practice
Anna Marie Brennan eanna.brennan@umail.ucc.ie
Intersectionality stream
Charlotte Skeet ec.h.skeet@sussex.ac.uk
Labour law
Sam Middlemiss es.middlemiss@rgu.ac.uk
Michael Jefferson em.jefferson@sheffield.ac.uk
Law and literature
Julia J A Shaw ejshaw@dmu.ac.uk
Lawyers and legal professions
Andy Boon eandy.boon.1@city.ac.uk
Legal education
Tony Bradney ea.bradney@law.keele.ac.uk
Fiona Cownie ef.cownie@law.keele.ac.uk
Medical law and ethics
Glenys Williams egnw@aber.ac.uk
Mental health and mental capacity law
Peter Bartlett epeter.bartlett@nottingham.ac.uk
Race, religion and human rights
Fernne Brennan ejoash@essex.ac.uk
Renewable energy and sustainable development
Jona Razzaque ejona.razzaque@uwe.ac.uk
Research methodologies and methods
Antonia Layard ea.layard@bham.ac.uk
Simon Halliday esimon.halliday@york.ac.uk
Sentencing and punishment
Gavin Dingwall egdingwall@dmu.ac.uk
Sexual offences and offending
Phil Rumney ephil.rumney@uwe.ac.uk
Sports law
Ben Livings eben.livings@sunderland.ac.uk
Simon Boyes esimon.boyes@ntu.ac.uk
John O’Leary ejohn.oleary@anglia.ac.uk
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Colonial legalities
Carol Jones ec.jones2@wlv.ac.uk
Families and work
Nicole Busby enicole.busby@strath.ac.uk
Grace James ec.g.james@reading.ac.uk
Language, power and the law
Sarah Craig esarah.craig@glasgow.ac.uk
Jackie Gulland eJackie.gulland@ed.ac.uk
Responding to the rights of those ‘On the edge of adulthood’
Sue Farran esue.farran@northumbria.ac.uk
Rhona Smith erhona.smith@northumbria.ac.uk
Journal of Law and Society (Winter 2013)
The political origins of English private law – Dan Priel
Second-hand emotion? Exploring the contagion and impact
of trauma and distress in the asylum law context – Helen
Baillot, Sharon Cowan and Vanessa Munro
Identifying points of contact and engagement between legal
and environmental education – Jane Holder
Popular music and copyright law in the sixties – Jose Bellido
The influence of personal values on legal judgments –
Rachel Cahill-O’Callaghan
Discolouring democracy? Policing, sensitive evidence and
contentious deaths in the United Kingdom – Rebecca
Scott Bray and Greg Martin
Northern lights: from Swedish realism to sociology of law –
Roger Cotterrell
Book reviews
Brian Tamanaha, Failing Law Schools – Sally Wheeler
Mariano Croce and Andrea Salvatore, The Legal Theory of
Carl Schmitt – Richard Mullender
He Weifang, In the Name of Justice: Striving for the rule of law
in China – Carol Jones
Jonathan Herring, Caring and the Law – Nicole Busby
Sally J Kenney, Gender and Justice: Why women in the judiciary
really matter and Erika Rackley, Women, Judging and the
Judiciary – Hilary Sommerlad
Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism – Richard Wilson
SLSA Annual Conference 2014
Department of Law, Robert Gordon University
Aberdeen
911 April 2014
Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2014
The Department of Law at Robert Gordon University is delighted to be hosting the Socio-Legal
Studies Association Conference in 2014. Based in Aberdeen, the department is situated in a
purpose-built campus on the banks of the River Dee with modern facilities throughout.
The conference organisers are Sarah Christie (s.christie@rgu.ac.uk) and Margaret Downie
(m.downie@rgu.ac.uk) and the conference will run from Wednesday 9 to Friday 11 April 2014.
The call for papers is now open: see opposite or visit www.rgu.ac.uk/slsa2014.
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