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Name
Mr Simon Boyes
School
Nottingham Law School
Staff group(s)
Nottingham Law School staff
Telephone
+44 (0)115 848 6528
Fax
+44 (0)115 848 4270
Address
Nottingham Law School
Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
Nottinghamshire
NG1 4BU

Job title

Senior Lecturer

Job responsibilities

Simon Boyes is the Admissions Tutor for the School’s Undergraduate Programmes; he leads, lectures and tutors on European Union law modules on Nottingham Law School’s LLB programmes. Simon has a particular specialism in sports law in which he leads an optional final-year undergraduate module. He also leads and teaches on a number of modules on the LLM Sports Law programme, as well as supervising PhD students.

Publications

Mr Simon Boyes

Research, scholarly and professional interests

  • Sports Law, in particular:
    • as it relates to the European Union
    • the regulation of sports governing bodies
    • sports arbitration, in particular the Court of Arbitration for Sport
    • legal aspects of Doping and the World Anti-Doping Agency
    • international sports law

Current projects

  • Award of a grant and Joao Havelange Scholarship by the CIES (International Centre for Studies in Sport – University of Neuchatel in association with FIFA) for research relating to the legitimate limits of legal intervention in football

External academic and professional activity

Simon frequently presents papers at external conferences and was the organiser of the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Sport and the European Union, hosted by NTU in 2011.

Simon has acted as an external examiner for the examination of PhD candidates at a number of institutions and is currently an external examiner for undergraduate law programmes at Staffordshire University.

Information for prospective research students

Simon is able to offer supervision for research students across the range of topics associated with sports law, as well as those involving elements of European Union law.

Information for prospective clients

After completing LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Hull, Simon Boyes spent a year as a Research Associate in the Centre for Study of Sport and Law at Kings College, University of London. Simon then spent three-years working as a part of the International Sports Law Centre at Anglia Law School, Anglia Ruskin University, where he also taught European Union Law and Public Law modules. Simon Joined Nottingham Law School in 2001, teaching across a range of subjects, but focussing on European Union Law, Public Law and Sports Law and is an active researcher.

Nottingham Trent University
Burton Street
Nottingham
NG1 4BU

Telephone: +44 (0)115 941 8418
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