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Projects in Centre for Law and Society
Human rights and boundaries
01/03/2013 →
Steven Wheatley, Karolina Follis, Clemens Rieder, James Summers, Saskia Vermeylen
The project will consider how human rights addresses the question of boundaries: the way in which human rights are applicable to bounded communities; how human rights constructs bounded identities of ... Read more»New technology and tort
05/12/2012 →
Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee is currently working on a project exploring the impacts of new technology on tort. She hopes to present a paper on this at the 2013 SLSA Conference, York University UK. See below for Abs ... Read more»Monograph - 'International Child Relocation Law: Competing Interests; Competing Human Rights'
30/07/2012 → 31/12/2013
Sarah Beresford
International Child Relocation Law will provide a clear, interdisciplinary and socio-legal analysis of the law in an international context with a focus on selected jurisdictions. Whilst there is some ... Read more»Cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare and international law
05/07/2012 →
Bela Bonita Chatterjee
Dr Chatterjee is currently exploring the contours of international law as they relate to cyberterrorism and cyberwarfare. A paper on the topic has been presented to the International Law Group, Lancas ... Read more»How migration reshapes labour markets: a study of professional service
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2014
James Faulconbridge
This project, funded by the Australian Research Council, explores the recruitment and training practices of accountancy firms in Australia and their impacts on labour mobility ... Read more»How Migration reshapes Labour Markets: A Study of Professional Service Firms
01/12/2011 →
James Faulconbridge
... Read more»Exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship
01/11/2011 → 31/07/2015
Suzanne Ost
I am working on a project with Prof Hazel Biggs (School of Law, University of Southampton) exploring the concept of exploitation in the particular context of the doctor-patient relationship. Thus far, ... Read more»Corpus Research in Early Modern English
01/10/2011 →
Stephen Pumfrey, Paul Rayson, Alistair Baron, Alison Findlay, Liz Oakley-Brown, Jonathan Culpeper, Ian Gregory, Naomi Tadmor
Summary: We are an interdisciplinary research group which is combining established areas of research excellence at Lancaster University. The emergent synthesis is generating unique methods and approac ... Read more»Misadminstration of Justice
28/09/2011 →
Agata Fijalkowski
An important dimension of post-transtitional justice concerns the judiciary and the misadministration of justice. This research examines key cases heard by military and common courts in two periods in ... Read more»SANDPIT: Disruption: the raw material for low carbon Change
01/09/2011 →
James Faulconbridge
This project examines ways of better understanding the centrality of mobility in everyday life, and in turn how this understanding might be used to lower the carbon impacts of mobility in the future. ... Read more»The future of business mobilities
01/06/2011 → 30/09/2011
James Faulconbridge, John Urry
This project examines the current role of mobility in business practice, ways of empirically and theoretically studying this mobility, and the social and environmental pressures that raise questions a ... Read more»Law and Systems Theory Network
02/05/2011 →
Tom Webb
LaSTNet is a mailing list with accompanying website set up to bring those with an interest in the application of systems theory thinking to law. The mailing list is primarily used to advertise confer ... Read more»Book - Gender, Law, Violence (work in progress)
01/10/2010 → 01/11/2011
Sarah Beresford
A sole authored monograph examining some of the ways in which legal discourse creates gendered identitites. The proposal is currently under consideration by Routledge. It has been peer reviewed. Rou ... Read more»KTP: Engery Efficiency
06/04/2010 →
Stefanos Mouzas, James Faulconbridge
... Read more»A Cultural Political Economy of Crisis and Crisis Management
01/04/2010 → 30/06/2013
Bob Jessop, Amelie Kutter
Economic crisis management has concerned governments and other responsible authorities from 2008. Yet crises are complex and subject to many attempts to interpret and explain them, to identify causes, ... Read more»Leveraging sustainability
01/09/2009 →
James Faulconbridge
This project examines the way knowledge and practice about sustainable building design circulates globally ... Read more»Criminalisation of Cartels
02/02/2009 →
Angus MacCulloch
Following on from my previous work, 'The Cartel Offence and the Criminalisation of UK Competition Law' (2003) and 'Honesty, Morality and the Cartel Offence' (2007), I am continuing my work in cartel r ... Read more»Conceptualising the professions in the 21st century
01/01/2009 →
James Faulconbridge
Within the ‘knowledge economy’ the professions (traditionally defined as accountancy, architecture, law and medicine) and professionals are important forces, wielding great influence on both priva ... Read more»Professional education, global professional service firms and the cultures of professional work in europe
01/12/2008 →
James Faulconbridge
Global professional service firms such as accountancy and law play a vital role in the global economy and facilitate cross border business. Yet despite receiving significant academic scrutiny, little ... Read more»Lost in Translation: Cross - disciplinary analysis of knowledge exchange and effectiveness in animal disease management
01/07/2008 → 30/11/2011
Louise Heathwaite, William Medd, Maggie Mort, Brian Wynne
Objectives The aim of this project is to develop more integrated strategies of containment for animal disease through a cross-disciplinary research team bringing together expertise in public health, ... Read more»The Impact of the Criminal Process on Health Care Ethics and Practice
01/01/2008 → 31/07/2011
Suzanne Ost
The research project (funded by the AHRC) will offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of the criminal justice system in regulating health care practice and ethics in the UK. Whilst the courts have ... Read more»Universal Human Rights in Practice
01/10/2007 → 31/12/2010
Sigrun Skogly
The project is aimed at exploring states' obligations in relation to economic, social and cultural rights when acting outside their own borders. The project, carried out by a network of academics and ... Read more»The experience of complainants in rape trials
01/09/2007 →
Georgina Firth
I am looking at the new definitions of consent in the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and assessing their impact on the experience of the rape trial for complainants. I also intend to draw upon research look ... Read more»Consumer Construction Law
24/07/2007 →
Richard Austen-Baker
Acting as UK Reporter for a project to compare the law on consumer construction contracts in Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Switzerland. This work is part of a project being undertaken at Rupre ... Read more»UK-China Networks of Low Carbon Innovation
01/07/2007 → 30/04/2010
John Urry, Brian Wynne, David Tyfield
Tackling climate change is demanding international collaboration in innovation, yet there are significant constraints on such collaborations. This project is examining low carbon partnerships between ... Read more»Comprehensive Contract Theory
01/06/2007 →
Richard Austen-Baker
This project is an attempt to produce a "streamlined" version of Ian Macneil's essential contract theory, and proposes a four norm model of contract relations to replace the 14 or so norms proposed by ... Read more»Impact of Companies Act 2006
31/05/2007 → 31/05/2008
David Milman
This project will examine the broad impact of the new Companies Act, the longest statute in English Law. Professor Milman is part of a team working with OUP to produce a major looseleaf on this legis ... Read more»One day conference on NGOs in National and International Governance
01/05/2007 → 21/09/2007
Israel Butler
This conference is intended to gather three sets of actors to explore the role of non-governmental organisations in policy making at the national, EU and UN levels: NGOs and policy-makers (as active p ... Read more»Constraints in Law and Literature: An exploration of regulation, justice and ethics
10/01/2007 → 31/07/2008
Suzanne Ost
The School of Law at the University of Manchester held a one-day colloquium at the University's Conference Centre in conjunction with the Law School, Lancaster University. The main focus of this mini- ... Read more»Extraterritorial Obligations in International Human Rights Law
01/09/2006 → 01/09/2008
Sigrun Skogly
This project will result in an edited book (with Prof. Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina - Asheville) entitled Extraterritorial Obligations and International Human Rights. The book addresses h ... Read more»Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Policy and Publics in Biodiversity
01/07/2006 → 30/06/2009
Claire Waterton, Brian Wynne, Rebecca Ellis
"Taxonomy at a Crossroads: Science, Publics and Policy in Biodiversity" is a 3 year interdisciplinary research project which brings together social and natural scientists to explore contemporary innov ... Read more»Child Pornography and Sexual Grooming: Legal and Societal Responses
01/05/2006 →
Suzanne Ost
The main publication arising from this project is a book with Cambridge University Press, 2009: Child pornography and sexual grooming provide case study exemplars of problems that society and law hav ... Read more»EMEDIATE: Media and Ethics of the European Public Sphere: From the Treaty of Rome to the 'War on Terror'
31/03/2006 → 30/04/2008
Ruth Wodak, Michal Krzyzanowski
EMEDIATE: Media and Ethics of the European Public Sphere: From the Treaty of Rome to the 'War on Terror' EU-Sixth-Framework Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) EMEDIATE: Media and Ethics o ... Read more»Implied Terms
01/08/2005 →
Richard Austen-Baker
Research into the law concerning implied terms in contracts. This project began with an investigation into the history of The Moorcock as a precedent, examining the varying fortunes of dicta in The M ... Read more»National Corporate Law and the Challenge of Globalisation
15/05/2005 → 31/07/2007
David Milman
National Corporate Law and the Challenge of Globalisation. This is a new monograph which was written for Edward Elgar Publishing. It examines how UK law in particular, and corporate law jurisdiction ... Read more»Cross-cultural voyages to the Pacific
01/01/2004 → 31/12/2006
Mercedes Camino
This three-year project was sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand for NZ$496,000. The interdisciplinary work that we undertook looks at the cross-cultural dimension of Pacific exploration fr ... Read more»Social Processes for Environmental Valuation
01/06/1996 → 31/05/1998
Brian Wynne
This project has now finished, running from June 1996 to May 1998. It involved researchers from the UK, France, Italy and Spain. Its purpose was to demonstrate effective methods for valuation of envir ... Read more»