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Amanda Ball

School of Arts and Humanities

Subject(s): Law, Media

Area(s) of expertise: Defamation and privacy law; Impact of laws of contempt (media); Reporting restrictions on the media


Elspeth Berry

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Law

Area(s) of expertise: Human rights law; Limited liability partnership (LLP) law; Partnership law


Simon Boyes

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Film and Television, Law, Marketing, Media, Sport

Area(s) of expertise: Sport and TV; Court of Arbitration for Sport; Sports arbitration; Sports disputes; Sports law; Sports regulation; Sports rights; Ambush marketing; Sport, drugs and doping; Sports and cheating; Sports violence


Jo Boylan-Kemp

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Crime, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Criminal law; Criminal offences; Criminal procedure; Innocence Project; Jury trial; Barristers; English legal system; Family law; Judiciary; Legal profession; Solicitors


Dr Jane Ching

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Higher Education/Universities, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Education of legal professionals/practitioners, particularly post-classroom; Regulation of legal education


David Ellicott

School of Social Sciences

Subject(s): Crime, Law, Social work/Counselling, Youth

Area(s) of expertise: Drugs and crime; Youth justice; Youth offending; Effective practice


Graham Ferris

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): International Relations, Law, Education

Area(s) of expertise: Globalisation; Law students; Legal ethics; Ownership; Trusts


Dr Austen Garwood-Gowers

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Law, Medical

Area(s) of expertise: Euthanasia; Medical law and ethics; Medical research law and ethics; Organ transplants law and ethics


Matthew Gough

School of Social Sciences

Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Mental health and community care law; Mental capacity; Mental health care


John Hodgson

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Europe, Higher Education/Universities, Law, Society

Area(s) of expertise: European Union legal issues; Legal education; Civil justice system; Constitutional reform; Freedom of speech/expression; Human rights


Roger Hopkins Burke

School of Social Sciences

Subject(s): Crime, Emergency Services, Law, Youth

Area(s) of expertise: Anti-social behaviour; Public (dis)order policing; Young people and crime; Youth justice; Zero tolerance policing


Helen Hudson

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Crime, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Criminal litigation; Civil litigation; Family law


Rebecca Huxley-Binns

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Higher Education/Universities, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Law degrees; Legal curriculum design; Legal education; Legal education training review; Review 2020


Tom Lewis

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Law, Religion, Society

Area(s) of expertise: Constitutional law; Freedom of speech/expression; Human rights; Freedom of religion


Mr Peter McTigue

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Law, Society

Area(s) of expertise: Employment and equality law; Unfair dismissal; Employment tribunals; Discrimination, especially disability discrimination; Stigma; Legal responses to HIV


Professor Andrea Nollent

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Higher Education/Universities, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Internationalisation in relation to law schools and law students; Legal education; Student mobility; Trans-national partnerships; Comparative law


Andrew O' Hagan

School of Science and Technology

Subject(s): Crime, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Domestic and international drug trafficking; Expert witness procedures; Providing evidence in the UK


Dr Samantha Pegg

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Crime, History, Law, Media, Youth

Area(s) of expertise: Child criminality and antisocial behaviour; Child on child killing Victorian and modern; Criminal law; Offences against the person; Manslaughter; Murder; James Bulger; Press presentations of crime and criminality; Sexual offences and sexual offending


Jeremy Robson

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Animals, Crime, Law

Area(s) of expertise: Wildlife related crimes; Advocacy; Criminal law; Criminal procedure; Evidence; Sentencing; Trials (Jury and Magistrate)


Dr Judith Rowbotham (continued)

School of Arts and Humanities

Subject(s): Law, Literature, Media, Royalty, Society

Area(s) of expertise: Law, prostitutes, sexual deviancy history; Women, suffrage and law; history of the legal process; Human rights history; Law and empire; Lawyers, trials, magistrates and magistrates courts history; Married women’s property rights; Philanthropy and law; Women, suffrage and law; Victorian literature and publishing industry/newspapers; Media crime reportage; Missionaries and perceptions of race; British royal family; Popularising the monarchy; Philanthropy and prostitutes; Women and philanthropy


John Tingle

Nottingham Law School

Subject(s): Law, Medical

Area(s) of expertise: Clinical error; Compensation; Medical error; Medical negligence; Patient safety; Patients being injured in hospital by clinical negligence; Patients suing doctors and nurses; Safety standards in hospitals

Last modified on: Wednesday 9 January 2013

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