Role
Dr John Rumbold is a Lecturer at the Nottingham Law School, who currently teaches Law in Action, Legal and Professional Environment, Land Law and Trusts Law to undergraduates. He also teaches AI and law to Masters students. He is a member of the NTU Centre for Legal Education.
He is a member of the British Sleep Society.
Career overview
Dr Rumbold completed his doctoral thesis on the sleepwalking defence and expert evidence in 2015. Before being appointed as a lecturer in law at NTU, he was employed in projects related to law and ethics of research. He is an expert in the sleepwalking defence and has provided expert evidence on this issue.
Research areas
Dr Rumbold is particularly interested in forensic sleep disorders and mental condition defences, but is also conducting research into other areas of law such as the assessment of capacity in body image disorders and the role of emotions in law.
External activity
He has published a monograph on the defence of automatism (Routledge). He is currently writing a monograph on the limits of legitimate medical practice. He has produced a podcast together with Professor Gröeger on sleep and the law:
Press expertise
Forensic Sleep Disorders
Course(s) I teach on
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Postgraduate taught | Full-time / Part-timeCOURSE
Health Law - LLM
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/nottingham-law-school/pg/llm-health-law
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Postgraduate taught | Full-time / Part-timeCOURSE
Master of Laws - LLM
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/nottingham-law-school/pg/llm-master-of-laws