Exeter Law School 14th May 2014, Edi on 1 Welcome from Professor James Devenney, Head of School
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Managers and various workstreams. The objec ves for the project are to address our performance against each Welcome to the first of the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) edition of our and to ďŹ rmly establish Exeter Law newsletter. The aim of School as a premier Law School. There our newsletter is to are 5 main work streams within the celebrate the wide project: Research, Educa on, Student variety of excellent Experience, External Rela ons and work within the School, as well as Internal Rela ons. Each of these updating the many friends of Exeter Law streams will have a working group School. The newsletter will be published involving all members of Law School 3 times per year and will include sta. Work has already begun in several sections from staff, students, alumni of these areas for example, the and other friends of the School. If you Educa on Commi,ee has begun a would like to contribute to our process of Curriculum Review, reec ng newsletter please do get in touch with on our Curriculum in the light of the Lizzie Hustwayte (details opposite) . changes to Higher Educa on in general and Legal Educa on in par cular. The Project Law Research Advisory Group had its ďŹ rst Some of you reading this will have heard mee ng, with mentoring, collabora on u,erings about ‘Project Law’ and may and the PGR community on the agenda, well be wondering what exactly it amongst other things. If you would like means. The Law School currently sits to know more or how to be involved in around 20th posi on across the various Project Law please contact Lizzie on league tables and the focus of Project e.hustwayte@exeter.ac.uk or Law is to raise our posi on ďŹ rst to Top telephone: 01392 726438 10 and sustainably in the Top 5 90th Anniversary Celebrations therea3er. In order to facilitate this a for Law School new Change and Development In celebra on of 90 years of ďŹ rst class Manager, Lizzie legal educa on at the University of Hustwayte, has been Exeter, a series of ac vi es showcasing appointed to coordinate the project along with the the breadth of research, educa on and student engagement ac vi es in the Law School Execu ve Law School took place on Friday 8th Group, Senior College
November 2013. There was a guest lecture delivered by Supreme Court Jus ce, Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony, in the Alumni
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Law Librarian Update At the end of December 2013 we bade farewell to Patrick Overy a3er many years of valued support to Law School sta and students. Patrick remains at the University in a new part me Subject Librarian role suppor ng the Business School. In January 2014, Lee Snook took over the reins as Law Librarian. Lee was previously the Law Librarian un l 2007 and is a law graduate so is very much looking forward to exercising her Auditorium. Students have studied law legal research skills once again in order at the University since 1923, though to support sta and students of the Law originally as part of the University School. Please get in touch College of the South West un l with Lee (L.M.Snook@exeter.ac.uk or Incorpora on by Royal Charter in 1955 telephone: 01392 723861) if you have established Exeter as a university in its any law library or informa on related own right. Prominent alumni include queries and she will be happy to help. Court of Appeal Judge Lord Jus ce Elias, Lasok Law Library—Study Space Senior Presiding Judge for England and The Forum building has been a Wales Lord Jus ce Sir John Goldring, as phenomenal success, with students well as a number of High Court Judges, ocking to the new spaces and adop ng Circuit Judges, QCs and partners at dierent work pa,erns to reect the Magic Circle law ďŹ rms. Today, the sta wide variety of ac vi es available. The and students of the Law School form a overall Library study space provision was cosmopolitan group reec ng the doubled at Forum opening but due to interna onal reputa on of both its the great uptake of the space by research and teaching. In par cular the students we have further boosted the Law School has an interna onal sea ng provision. This has taken the reputa on across a range of areas number of study seats in and around the including: Family Law, Legal History, Forum Library to over 1000 during Interna onal and Human Rights Law, normal mes, further enhanced by 300 European Law, Science, Culture and the spaces in the Forum seminar rooms Law, Environmental Law and Commercial during exam periods. Much of the Law. addi onal sea ng was made available in the Lasok Law Library, almost doubling the amount of sea ng in and around the
Legal Educa on Founda on, Pathways is oered at 12 UK universi es, including the University of Exeter. The programme targets high-achieving students in state schools and colleges who will be the ďŹ rst genera on in their family to a,end university, and aims to raise their aspira ons and provide them with the law collec ons. The latest oor plan is skills and conďŹ dence to pursue a available online. successful legal career. Print Collec ons Pathways to Law is a two-year For the start of the 2013/14 academic programme which runs throughout session, the Law collec on from Penryn, students' sixth form years. During this Cornwall was relocated to the Exeter time, students take part in a full and Law Collec ons, boos ng the availability varied programme of lectures, seminars, of core texts in key areas. Details of all legal skills workshops and field trips. items can be accessed in the usual way Students also complete a 3-5 day work through our online library catalogue. experience placement, attend a Our print collec ons are available for residential conference with Pathways reference consulta on by Alumni, students from across the country, and Friends and the local public with an receive ongoing e-mentoring support interest in law. Registered members of from current University of Exeter law the library may borrow materials. students. Students on the Pathways European Sources Online scheme will enhance and develop their European Sources Online, the electronic interpersonal, communication and legal added value European information skills as well as gaining an invaluable service from the University of Cardiff’s insight into university life and the world European Documentation Centre, has of law. now become a free access service to all. The University of Exeter has 35 places This service helps you ďŹ nd informa on available on the Pathways programme on the European Union, the countries of each year for students from across the Europe and on issues of concern to South West of England, including Devon, European ci zens, researchers and Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset. stakeholders. An email alert service and Our Pathways to Law students come RSS feeds are available. from the following 17 schools and colleges across the South West: Pathways to Law ¡ Axe Valley Community College Pathways to Law is an innova ve and ¡ Bridgwater College exci ng programme, which provides ¡ Callington Community College fantas c opportuni es for sixth form ¡ City College, Plymouth students who are interested in law. Run ¡ Clyst Vale Community College by the Su,on Trust and funded by the
have also entered two other interna onal compe ons: the Philip C. Jessup Interna onal Law Moot Court Compe on (team: Charlo,e Li,lewood, Lauren Mercer, Nabeel Ebrahim, Tom Miller, and Samuel McCann; coaches: Annika Jones and Jarrod Hepburn; and the Oxford Interna onal Intellectual Property Law Moot (team: Elena Mar rosyan, Mohamed Nour, and Chris ne Zirobwa; coach: Stephen Pennock; sadly, the team was not selected for the interna onal rounds). Following an extensive internal selec on process, we have nominated teams to par cipate at eight dierent na onal moo ng compe ons. Lowri Pa,erson and George,e Monnou (coach: James Gould) have advanced to the third round of the OUP and BPP Na onal Moo ng Compe on. Jack Wright and Robert Williamson (coach: Hazel McLean) proceeded to the quarter ďŹ nal of the Mooting Incorporated Council of Law , Repor ng The Law School boasts an excellent and Annual Moot Compe on, losing only growing moo ng programme, consis ng narrowly to of a number of internal, na onal, and Oxford. The interna onal compe ons. Although current Master the academic year is s ll under way, our and Mistress of students have already scored some the Moot, successes both domes cally and Ma,hew Hunter and Carys-Mair Owen interna onally. (coach: Hazel McLean) proceeded to the A team, composed of Jerusha Owino, second round of the Inner Temple InterEmil Sahakyan, and Natalie Lucas Varsity Moot in London. Other moots (coaches: Aurel Sari and Kubo Macak) we have entered include the Na onal has advanced to the interna onal Student Law Society Moot, the ESUrounds at the Jean-Pictet Compe on in Essex Court Chambers Na onal Moot Interna onal Humanitarian Law. We Compe on, and the UKSLA Moot
¡ Coombe Dean School ¡ Cornwall College, St Austell ¡ Exeter College ¡ Holyrood Academy ¡ Ilfracombe Community College ¡ King Alfred School ¡ Okehampton Community College ¡ Petroc, Tiverton ¡ Queen Elizabeth’s ¡ Sidmouth College ¡ Tor Bridge High ¡ Torpoint Community College Our Pathways to Law Coordinator at the University of Exeter is Erika Borley (email e.l.borley@exeter.ac.uk or call 01392 725628). You can also visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/ pathwaystolaw
Compe on. A number of events are forthcoming. Our students are preparing for Blackstone's Advocacy Moot and the Bracton Law Society will hold a moot day sponsored by Dentons, which should be an opportunity for less experienced mooters to improve their skills. Also, there is the second round of our internal compe on, the Devon Chambers Moo ng Compe on. The programme has been beneďŹ ng from a longstanding and fruiRul collabora on between the Law School and the Bracton Law Society and especially from the hard work of the current Master and the Mistress of the Moot, Ma,hew and Carys. The kind help of all our sta members who have been involved in judging and coaching is also gratefully acknowledged. Kubo Macak, Director of Moo ng Jessup International Law Moot 2014 – Exeter team wins the Spirit of the Jessup Award The Philip C. Jessup Interna onal Law Moot Court Compe on is the largest and most pres gious public interna onal law moot, with teams from over 550 law schools in more than 80 countries compe ng. The na onal rounds of the Philip C. Jessup Interna onal Law Moot Court Compe on took place from Thursday 28th February to Sunday 2nd March 2014 in Gray’s Inn, London. The Exeter team was composed of Tom Miller, Nabeel Ebrahim, Lauren Mercer, Charlo,e
Li,lewood and Samuel McCann. The team performed excellently in the na onal rounds of the compe on and were awarded the Spirit of the Jessup Award on the ďŹ nal day. The Spirit of the Jessup Award recognises the team that best exempliďŹ es the spirit of camaraderie, academic excellence, compe veness, and apprecia on for fellow compe tors. The team’s achievement follows on the success of the Exeter team in previous years of the competition.
Law Student Awarded Hutton Prize for Excellence The 2013-2014 Hutton Prize for Excellence has been awarded to Omotoniola Adeeyo, who graduated from her undergraduate degree in Law in 2013. The prize, which consists of a medal containing one troy ounce of solid gold, is awarded on a yearly basis to an undergraduate or postgraduate student from Politics, Law or the Business School who is able to demonstrate, propose and promote high standards of ethical conduct for the tangible benefit of society or individuals. The award was made to Omotoniola on the basis of her undergraduate dissertation, entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility, Financial Institutions and Africa: Adequacy of Conceptions and Models, with Illustrations from Nigeria�. The Prize was presented by the Dean on Saturday 18th January, 2014, the day of the Winter Graduation Ceremony .
James Devenney keynote Exeter PhD student wins Interleges 2014 essay speaker at The Consumer Credit and the Law Symposium competition Professor James Devenney, Head of the Law School, recently gave a keynote address at “The Consumer Credit and the Law Symposium� which took place in Brisbane. Hosted by the Australian Centre for Private Law and the University of Queensland Law School, the symposium focussed on responsible lending practices and consumer credit reform. It was opened by His Honour Judge Kiernan Dorney QC of the District Court of Queensland, the symposium was attended by finance industry professionals, lawyers, consumer advocates and consumer credit law researchers from Australia and overseas. The symposium enabled participants to compare Australia’s new package of consumer credit law and reform with those introduced by other countries. For the full story please see the TC Beirne School of Law website.
Mathilde Pavis, PhD Student on the AHRC funded Invisible Dierence: Dance, Disability and Law project for winning the Interleges 2014 essay compe on with her essay 'True Shareholderism is “Stakeholderist''. Interleges is an alliance of independent law ďŹ rms with oďŹƒces in countries of the EU, Eastern Europe, Middle East and North America. Informa on at h,p:// www.royds.com/blogs/interleges-award2014-launched/
Exeter alumna Raya AlAl-Khatib becomes the fifth woman to be granted a license to practise law in Saudi Arabia Ms Raya Al-Kha b, a Saudi na onal, graduated in the LLM in Interna onal and Compara ve Public Law from Exeter Law School in 2010. Women with law degrees had been able to work as legal consultants in Saudi Arabia but were banned from prac cing law in courtrooms or opera ng law ďŹ rms. Under the new policy [SMH report], both women and men seeking a legal prac ce license must have a university degree in law and three years of training. The first batch of licenses were issued in October 2013 (4 women were licensed) and the second batch issued in November 2013 (3 women, Raya among them). Raya received her license on 21 November
2013. We congratulate her on this amazing achievement and are delighted for her to be part of such a historical change.
Introduction to Mooting Day The Bracton Law Society were delighted to welcome a representative from Slaughter and May to Exeter to present to students at our annual Introduc on to Moo ng Day. Held throughout the Bracton Law Society Anniversary of the Law School a3ernoon of 2nd October 2013, students As noted above, on 8th November 2013, were given the opportunity to witness The University of Exeter Law School the moo ng prowess of some of the celebrated its 90th Anniversary with a Society's most experienced mooters and day of ac vi es and celebra ons. The the chance to take part themselves in a friendly workshop. The University's fantas c Deba ng Society also visited to discuss public speaking techniques. The a3ernoon ďŹ nished with a relaxed recep on which gave students the chance to meet others interested in the extra-curricular ac vity.
event featured a showcase of the breath of research, educa on and student engagement ac vi es in the Law School, with the Master and Mistress of the Moot, Ma,hew Hunter and Carys Owen, presen ng on the moo ng successes of students alongside Victoria Bresslaw and Emma White presen ng a brief introduc on to the Bracton Law Society. The highlight of the day was the insighRul guest lecture by Lord Clarke of Stone-cum-Ebony on the topic of ‘What shall we do about Fraudulent Claims?’ which has featured prominently in the media in recent years. The day was a great success and enjoyed by all; we look forward to celebra ng the 100th anniversary and witness further achievements of students and sta alike over the next decade.
Pro Bono Day In celebra on of the Na onal Pro Bono Week, the Bracton Law Society hosted a number of events designed to inform students of the importance of pro bono work and to encourage them to get involved with many of the fantas c opportuni es organised by the Society (such as the 'Prison Project' and the 'Innocence Project'). The day included a debate on the issue of whether lawyers have a moral obliga on to perform pro bono work, a presenta on on the various projects oered through the University and an informal networking session. The day was greatly enjoyed by all and we hope that the day will be run again next year.
Exeter Alumni News Steve Edge—Partner, Slaughter and May (LLB 1972) "I've been involved with the efforts to reconnect the University with its alumni generally since the Vice Chancellor asked me to get involved shortly after his arrival in Exeter. The period since then has, of course, seen tremendous changes at the University and corresponding external recognition of all the hard work that has been done (all good for your CV and a matter for universal rejoicing amongst the alumni). I've also been involved over much the same period in helping the Law School in a number of areas where alumni are able to help. In past years, we have had a tremendous amount of support (introductions, careers talks, employment advice and help, donations to start the [debt management advice to students] project etc.) from many alumni - but we still only really scratched at the surface. There is a lot more potential. Exeter seems to produce the nicest graduates - and they all have such fond recollections of their time at the University that the offers of help and support can be overwhelming. Putting something back into the institutions that gave you such a good start in life and doing what you can to give young people the support they deserve at a critical time in their education or helping to enlarge a field of knowledge that interests you are all things that (rightly)
seemed to inspire generosity of all types. So, our challenge now is to tap that enthusiasm in a way that supports Project Law and helps the School achieve its objectives. I will be working, in my capacity as the new Chairman of ANG (but retaining a special responsibility for law as well) with James and Lizzie to help in any way I (and, with me, the alumni) can through that process. We are, of course, open to all suggestions. Based on my experience, Exeter alumni are clearly proud of their University - and the current generations of students should be proud of their alumni. The Law School has an enviable position and record."(By the way, I was at Exeter between 1969 and 1972, was lucky then both to marry another Exeter student (an English graduate) and then get a job at Slaughter and May where I have had a very happy career in corporate tax over a fascinating period of the UK's history.) Alumni and Friends of the Law School Involvement We are very keen to involve Exeter alumni and friends of the Law School in the development and delivery of Project Law. Your feedback and input is highly valuable to us. For instance, you may be willing to share your experience of legal prac ce with current students (e.g. through a guest lecture or recording a podcast on your area of Law) or to help prepare students for the world of work (e.g. through par cipa ng in career discussion panels, interview skill sessions, CV clinics). We would also value your help with spreading the word about Project Law to other Exeter Law
alumni and interested par es. You may have other sugges ons for how you could par cipate, and we would be keen to hear these. Please do get in touch with Lizzie Hustwayte (e.hustwayte@exeter.ac.uk) if you feel you would like to learn more or contribute in some way.
research is in Family Law and Policy. Her work is best known for having used social science methods to prove the existence of ‘the common law marriage myth’, whereby people falsely believe couples who live together have the same rights as if they were married. Professor Barlow is currently Vice-Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Associa on and was Staff News nominated to AcSS for the award by the Professor Anne Barlow Society of Legal Scholars. She is currently The Academy of Social leading an ESRC-funded project Mapping Sciences has conferred the Paths to Family Jus ce on Family Dispute award of Academician on Resolu on more informa on on this can 51 leading social scien sts, be found by clicking here. including Professor Anne Barlow from the University Professor Jenny McEwan of Exeter’s Law School. The na onal Jenny McEwan has been Academy represents dis nguished invited to join an academics, socie es and prac oners in interna onal advisory the social sciences. It has over 900 panel for ScoZsh individual Academicians, who are government-funded eminent scholars and prac oners from project to review academia and the public and private safeguards and changes to ScoZsh law sectors. Recipients have a wide range of and prac ce that would be required in exper se in the social sciences, including the event of aboli on of the educa on, urban studies, social policy, ScoZsh corrobora on rule. This gerontology, law, poli cs, sociology, currently states that no person can criminology, geography and linguis cs. (subject to some minor excep ons) be Being an Academician means that a peer convicted of any criminal oence on the group has reviewed the standing and basis of one item of uncorroborated impact of their work and found it worthy evidence. The ScoZsh Government has of the conferment of the award. decided, following a review of ScoZsh Academicians are en tled to put le,ers criminal procedure by a senior judge “AcSSâ€? a3er their name and this too (Lord Carloway), to abolish the rule. This grants status and peer recogni on. proposal – s ll under considera on by Professor Anne Barlow is the ďŹ rst the ScoZsh Parliament – has proved member of the Law School at Exeter to highly controversial, and the receive such an honour and only the Government has now appointed Lord second woman within the University of Bonomy (a former ScoZsh High Court Exeter as a whole. She is a leading socioand ICTY judge) to conduct a review He legal researcher whose major area of has asked a small team of ScoZsh
and social beneďŹ ts but their eects are surrounded by uncertainty not least in terms of impact on health and environment. In 2006, Robert Lee reviewed the current state of regula on on nanotechnology for the UK OďŹƒce of Science and Innova on (then part of the Department of Trade and Industry) The report found gaps in the coverage of the Professor Michael Schmitt regulatory framework and was On 3rd April Professor presented, by invita on to the Mike Schmi, delivered a Nanotechnology Issues Dialogue Group, keynote address at an inter-departmental government NATO’s Allied Command commi,ee, the Government Legal Transforma on’s (ACT) Service, and the Royal Commission on TIDE Sprint Conference. Environmental Pollu on. The TIDE Sprint conferences serve as The work was selected by the ESRC as a ACT's think-tank for informa on, agship ‘ESRC impact case study’ and decision and execu on the OSI/DTI report has been cited and superiority. Professor Schmi, spoke on recommended by the OECD which states the law of cyber warfare to an audience that “Although the report is from the UK consis ng of NATO, na onal perspec ve it's general ďŹ ndings will have and private industry cyber and much in common with regulatory issues communica ons experts. He also experienced in other countries.â€? The conducted a workshop for a,endees the UK’s Council for Science and Technology previous day in which cyber conict notes that “The report is a scenarios were analysed from a legal comprehensive and thorough piece of perspec ve. work and we commend Government for having commissioned itâ€?. The UK Professor Robert Lee Nanotechnologies Strategy states that: Robert Lee, Professor in “Departments and Agencies within Environmental Law, has Government are working to ensure that acted as technical author of regula ons and policies in all sectors are a Bri sh Standards applied appropriately to nanomaterials Ins tu on (BSI) standard and that the issues iden ďŹ ed by the (PAS 137) on the on the Report are addressed.â€? safe use and handling of nanomaterials The work iden ďŹ ed that shorRalls in which will become the reference point deďŹ ni on, metrics and toxicology make for the whole of Bri sh industry when it diďŹƒcult to generate tradi onal researching, manufacturing, marke ng legisla ve approaches to the regula on and managing nanomaterials. of novel materials. It suggests the need Nanotechnologies oer huge economic academics to write a report on poten al safeguards and changes which will inform the review’s report in 2015. Lord Bonomy is keen that the review be informed by as wide a range of perspec ves from other jurisdic ons as possible, hence Professor McEwan’s invita on to join the panel
for inclusive, so3 law mechanisms (such Germany), and speciďŹ cally on Norma ve as codes or protocols) for the regula on lessons from Literature to Law. of technology pending the adapta on of more formal regula on. It was this that Professor Liz Trinder Li gants in person: In April led to the idea of a standard which 2014 most private family Robert Lee was then invited to author. law ma,ers were taken The Standard which was published at the out of the scope of legal end of 2013 is available to download from the BSI website. aid. It was widely expected that this would result in a Professor Melanie Williams signiďŹ cant increase in the numbers of Professor Williams has li gants in person. Liz Trinder led a team been invited to deliver/ commissioned by the Ministry of Jus ce speak to the following to inves gate the support needs and Conference Papers/ impact of li gants in person in private Plenaries 2013-14: family law ma,ers. The research In July 2014, CRASSH involved observa on of 151 hearings in Cambridge University [Centre for ďŹ ve courts, analysis of the case ďŹ les and Research into Social Sciences and interviews with the associated par es, Humani es], ‘Reading Itself’ - looking at lawyers, judges and Cafcass oďŹƒcers. A the rela onship between forms of report was submi,ed to Ministry of wri ng and enquiry/evidence Jus ce in September 2013 and should be In March 2014, Professor Williams published by MoJ in early 2014. delivered the Horace E. Read Annual Enforcement of contact orders: This Memorial Lecture, Schulich Law School, study ran from early 2013 to December Dalhousie University, Nova Sco a. In 2013. It was funded by the NuďŹƒeld February 2014 Leeds University Founda on. The research was triggered Interdisciplinary Studies Invited lecture – by the Government's announcement in law, literature and interdisciplinary 2012 that it intended to legislate to studies h,p://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/ introduce 'tougher' measures to ensure events/event/2127/ compliance with child contact orders In November 2013, Professor Williams made by the family courts. At the me delivered a paper at the AIDEL policy-making was being led by media (Associazione Italiana Diri,o e stereotypes about hos le mothers rather Le,eratura—Italian Associa on of Law than being informed by a body of and Literature) Interna onal Conference research evidence. The study therefore 2013 Power of Voices / Voices of Power, set out to inves gate the triggers for the tle was Law's impotence, gender enforcement applica ons and the violence and the power of feminist approach of the family courts to these science ďŹ c on. In July 2013 Professor cases. The research team, led by Liz Williams delivered a workshop: Fic on Trinder, were able to access the and Its Use (Bielefeld University, electronic case ďŹ les held by Cafcass, the
family court advisory service. This enabled the team to access all English enforcement applica ons made over a two month period in 2012, some 215 cases. The results of this large-scale and representa ve study iden ďŹ ed that enforcement cases were more likely to be characterised by mutual parental conict, safeguarding issues and older children refusing contact than 'implacable hos lity’. The study concluded that the courts were generally handling enforcement cases appropriately but recommended addi onal therapeu c interven ons for high conict cases. The study had a signiďŹ cant and immediate impact on the government's policy which switched from favouring curfews, removal of passports and driving licences to endorsing the team's recommenda on for therapeu c rather than puni ve measures. The full report was published in December 2013 as Trinder., L, Hunt, J., Macleod, A., Pearce J. and Woodward H. (2013) Enforcing contact orders: problemsolving or punishment? University of Exeter Law School.
and transna onal corpora ons. In 2011, Dr Addo was appointed by the United Na ons Human Rights Council to join its Working Group on Business and Human Rights to advise and promote the implementa on of the United Na ons Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
Dr Stephen Skinner Stephen Skinner was invited to present a paper, en tled ‘Il principio di legalita nel Codice Rocco e il problema dei conceZ ‘aper ’: il reato di vilipendio in prospeZva comparata’, (The principle of legality in the Rocco Code and the problem of the concepts' open ': the crime of contempt in a compara ve perspec ve') at a workshop on ‘Gius zia, Poli ca, Repressione durante il Fascismo’ (‘Jus ce, Poli cs, Repression during Fascism’) organized by the University of Macerata in Lesi, Italy on 20th-21st September 2013. The workshop was part of a major research project co-ordinated by colleagues at Macerata on criminal jus ce and poli cs in 19th- and 20th-century Italy. Dr Skinner’s latest publica on is ‘Deference, Propor onality and the Margin of Apprecia on in Lethal Force Dr Michael Addo Case Law under Ar cle 2 of the ECHR’, 1 Dr Michael Addo (2014) European Human Rights Law researches and teaches Review pp.32-38. interna onal human rights Dr Skinner has also launched a new, law with a par cular research-led 15 credit undergraduate interest in the broad area module this academic year, en tled of evidence-based human ‘Lethal Force, the ECHR and Democracy’ rights law. His recent work on The Legal which builds on his ongoing research Nature of Interna onal Human Rights into State killing and the right to life. Law (Nijho) 2010 is in this tradi on Over 60 students have signed up to this and so also is his work on human rights module.
Dr James Griffin Dr Griffin has had some ar cles published recently. These include an ar cle that is due for imminent publica on with P Li, S Mellor, C Waelde, L Hao, & R Everson, Intellectual Property and 3D Prin ng: A case study on 3D chocolate prin ng, in the Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Prac ce, which looks at the rela onship of 3d prin ng and legal regula on, an ar cle that was recently published with A Nair, The regula on of pornography: Teleology (in)ac on, Interna onal Journal of Law and Informa on Technology [2013] 1, looking at the impact of regula on upon extreme pornography and sugges ng a greater teleological approach, and an ar cle about the Digital Copyright Exchange: Threats and Opportuni es, 27 Interna onal Review of Computers, Law and Technology 5 (2013) which focuses upon the poten al for new methods of regula on by the DCE. theore cal pieces, one looking at Copyright evolu on - Crea on, Regula on, and the Decline of Substan vely Ra onDr GriďŹƒn has also published another ar cle with A Nair, Scien a poten a est: Making threats of copyright infringement, Interna onal Review of Law Computers and Technology [2013] 1, 2013 looking at the importance of threats within copyright li ga on. There are also two highly al Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Quarterly [2013] 234 which develops the applica on of Ra onality to Copyright Law, and Making a new
copyright economy: A new system parallel to the no on of proprietary exploita on in Copyright, Intellectual Property Quarterly, 2013 which proposes a new approach to economy based around Crea vity. In addi on to these pieces, Dr GriďŹƒn has been involved in the prepara on of a response to the European Commission paper concerning Copyright Harmonisa on. Dr Aurel Sari ARRCADE FUSION 2013 Dr Aurel Sari has recently returned from RAF St Mawgan near Newquay in Cornwall, where he participated in the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps’ main exercise for 2013, ARRCADE FUSION 2013. Running for a period of two weeks and involving over 2,000 military and civilian personnel, the exercise was designed to ensure that the ARRC maintains its operational readiness as part of the NATO Response Force. (The full report can be accessed by clicking on the ARRCADE FUSION 2013 title above)
The Policy Exchange, a Bri sh think tank dedicated to the development and
promo on of new policy ideas, published a Report en tled ‘The Fog of Law: An Introduction to the Legal Erosion of British Fighting Power’. The Report sets out to explain how the cumulative effect of legal developments taking place over the past decade has undermined the ability of Britain’s armed forces to operate effectively on the battlefield and offers seven policy recommendations to reverse this trend. Dr Sari has written a short comment on the report on EJIL:Talk! Dr Fae Garland and Dr Mitchell Travis The SLSA have granted Dr Mitchell Travis and Dr Fae Garland some funding for their project ‘Exploring the Possibility of Being ‘X’: Lessons from Australia’s Legal Construc on of Intersex.’ This is a small scale project that will provide a qualita ve understanding of intersex individuals’ percep on of legal recogni on in Australia. This research will provide a plaRorm for considera ons of change in both the Australian and the UK system.
research network.’ The full reference to Dr Bowyer’s chapter is: Richard Bowyer, "Joyce's poli cs in exile: Music and mo f between two na ons" in Stewart Motha and Karin van Marle (eds) Genres of Cri que: Law, Aesthe cs and Liminality (Stellenbosch: Sun Press, 2013). Publica on is in Stellenbosch, South Africa,. The project was funded by the Stellenbosch Ins tute for Advanced Study. Further informa on about the study can be found here: h,p:// s as.ac.za/research/projects/genres-ofcri que/
Bracton Centre for Legal History Research
Directors: Professors Chantal Stebbings and Anthony Musson The Directors of the Centre were both invited speakers at the 21st British Legal History Conference, held at the University of Glasgow in July 2013 on the theme of Law and Authority. Chantal Stebbings gave a paper on ‘The Authority of Law in a Bureaucratic Framework: the Nineteenth -century Medicine Stamp Duty’ while Anthony Musson’s presentation Dr Richard Bowyer was entitled: ‘“Worthy to be written in Dr Bowyer has been letters of gold�: image and law's involved with a South Africa authority.’ based research group Chantal Stebbings was successful in looking at literature and obtaining an extension to her Wellcome post-apartheid funding for her investigation into ‘Tax jurisprudence. They have and Quacks’. just published an edited and peerAnthony Musson has received funding reviewed collec on, and Dr Bowyer has a from the University Catalyst Public chapter in it. Richard says ‘it has been an Engagement Fund to pilot exhibitions exci ng, produc ve and truly global and historical trails relating to ‘Lawyers
in Society’ (an ESRC funded project). Chantal Stebbings was one of a small number of keynote invited speakers at the Equity and Administration Conference organised by the Cambridge Private Law Centre at Trinity College, Cambridge, in January 2014. The aim of the conference was to draw attention to the doctrinal and functional role of Equity as an important and largely unaddressed element in the make-up of institutions. The speakers and commentators were academics and judges drawn from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada, and the audience comprised senior British and Australian judges, practising barristers, solicitors and academics. Chantal Stebbings’ paper was entitled ‘The Equity of the Executive: Fairness in Tax Law in Nineteenth Century England,’ and ad dressed the development of a parallel system of bureaucra c law-making and adjudica on aimed at achieving substan ve and procedural jus ce, in the face of formal tax law’s inability to achieve the comprehensive fairness essen al to ensure compliance to tax. Having iden ďŹ ed this ‘execu ve equity,’ she demonstrated that despite its ques onable legality it s ll forms an essen al element of modern tax law and prac ce and has sustained the domina on in this ďŹ eld of an alterna ve primary percep on of equity. Anthony Musson was invited by the University of Indiana (hosted by the Center for Medieval Studies and Center for Law and Society) in October 2013 to give a lecture and meet faculty and postgraduates. The tle of his paper was ‘Seeing Jus ce: Law and Image in
Medieval England’. Both Chantal Stebbings and Anthony Musson feature in a new book European Supreme Courts, a Portrait through History, ed. Alain Wijels and C.H. van Rhee (eds) (London: Third Millennium Publishing Ltd) providing respec ve the chapters on the English courts (pp. 17289): ‘The English Common Law and Chancery Jurisdic on, Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times’ (Anthony) and ‘The Restructuring of the Superior Courts in England during the 19th Century’ (Chantal). Other publica ons (July 2013 to February 2014): C. Stebbings ‘Tax and Quacks: the policy of the Eighteenth Century Medicine Stamp Duty’ in John Tiley (ed) Studies in the History of Tax Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2014) pp. 283-304 A. Musson (with G. Martyn and H. Pihlajamaki) ed. From the Judge's Arbitrium to the Legality Principle (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013), 406 pp. A. Musson, ‘The Inuence of Canon Law on the Administra on of Jus ce in Late Medieval England’ in M. Schmoeckel, O. Condorelli and F. Roumy (eds), Der einuss der Kanonis k auf die Europaische Rechtskultur IV: Verfahrensrecht (Cologne, BĂśhlau, 2013), pp. 323-41. A. Musson, ‘Arbitra on and the Legal Profession in Late Medieval England’ in D. Ibbetson and M. Dyson (eds) Law and Legal Process: Substan ve Law and Procedure in English Legal History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 56-76. A. Musson, ‘Criminal Legisla on and the Common Law’ in G. Martyn, A. Musson
and H. Pihlajamaki (eds) From the Judge's Arbitrium to the Legality Principle (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2013), pp. 33-47. Dr Kitrina Bevan was the ďŹ rst student of the Centre to be awarded her PhD in July 2013 for a thesis en tled: Clerks and Scriveners: Legal Literacy and Access to Jus ce in Late Medieval England. Four new postgraduate research students were admi,ed to the Bracton Centre for Legal History Research in October 2013 and January 2014. Yiu Yu Bu7 is the ďŹ rst full me Distance Learning doctoral student in the Centre. Under the supervision of Professor Chantal Stebbings, co-Director of the Centre, he is inves ga ng the historical development of Hong Kong stamp duty law and prac ce, and its impact on the modern law and a tax system which is recognised as one of the most successful in the world. An academic and tax accountant, he is warmly welcomed to the Centre. Under the supervision of Professor Anthony Musson, Stephen Gates is undertaking an MA in Research into the cons tu onal and legal developments (post Magna Carta) during Henry III’s reign (1216-72). Zoe Cunningham (funded by the ESRC) is a doctoral student examining the codiďŹ ca on of laws and customs in the territories of Europe during the Middle Ages and is joined by Alison Talbot, who is researching the role of medieval bishops as judges, legislators and administrators.
Next Edition The next edi on of the Law School Newsle,er will be published at the start of the autumn term 2014. Please email any contribu ons to Lizzie Hustwayte (e.hustwayte@exeter.ac.uk )