Role
Dr John Rumbold is a Lecturer at the Nottingham Law School, who currently teaches Legal and Professional Environment, Land Law and Trusts Law to undergraduates. He also teaches on the Legal Aspects of AI and Mental Capacity and Mental Health Masters modules. He is a member of the NTU Centre for Legal Education and 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, continuing to work with his long-term collaborators in the field of sleep medicine. He 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 continues to work in the forensic sleep field, publishing with his collaborators on the issues relating to forensic sleep disorders and expert evidence.
He regularly advises lawyers and journalists on issues relating to forensic sleep disorders.
He is setting up a research network on the criminal mind to examine the interrelations between neuroscience, jurisprudence and mental condition defences.
He 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