Professor David Sugarman

PhD Supervision Interests

I welcome postgraduate and doctoral applications from students in the areas of:
Responses to massive violations of human rights.
Universal jurisdiction, especially with respect to senior state officials.
The domestic and transnational struggle to bring General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, to justice, its impact and larger significance.
Human rights struggles in Latin America, notably, Chile and Argentina.
? Transitional justice.
? Law and globalization.
? Law and society in England since 1780.
? Lawyers and Society.
? Visual images of law and lawyers.
? Law and politics.
? Legal education.
- Law and literature.
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Research Supervision
Current and recently completed PhD and Post-Doctoral Students include:
Dr Christos Boukalas, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, is extending his research on the counterterrorism measures introduced in the United States post-9/11 and their socio-political implications. R. Gwynedd Parry completed his dissertation on David Hughes Parry - A Jurist in Society, in 2009. Ben Mayfield is completiing his dissertation on the emergence of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Alex Murray, a Faculty Research Scholar, is completing a comparative analysis of the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals and the European Court of Human Rights.

Current Teaching

Responses to Massive Violations of Human Rights (Law 311)

Law and Society, 1750-1950: Culture, Gender and the Visual (Law 215)

Lawyers and Society (Law 264)

Courts, Law and Politics in a Comparative Perspective (Law 307)

International Terrorism and the Law (LLM 215)

International Criminal Law (LLM 236)

Research Interests

EDUCATION

Having gained an undergraduate law degree (LLB) at Hull University, he completed graduate work in law at Cambridge University as a William Senior Scholar in Comparative Law (LLM and Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies), and Harvard Law School (LLM), where he was awarded a doctorate (SJD).

SCHOLARSHIP  

He is best known for his contributions to legal history, the legal profession, legal education, corporate law, and international human rights (with particular reference to the national and transnational struggle to prosecute Augusto Pinochet and to the "human rights turn" in Post-Pinochet Chile). He has been a visiting researcher or professor in Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain, the United States as well as the UK, and has held positions in Law, History, and Politics Departments, and in Faculties of Business, Social Science, the Humanities, and Public and International Affairs.

He has authored and edited 18 books (including special issues of law reviews) and over 90 articles and book chapters in academic journals and scholarly collections.

He has contributed to the:

· New Oxford Companion to Law,

· Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History,

· Oxford Reader's Companion to Charles Dickens,

· Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment.

He has also published articles in a broad range of outlets including:

· The Times,

· The Guardian,

· The Santiago Times (Chile),

· Open Democracy,

· The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA),

· Amnesty International (Chile) and

· El Mostrador (Chile).

His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.

The Handbook on European Non-Discrimination Law. (Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Vienna: The European Court of Human Rights and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights and Justice, 2011). Co-authored with Dr Mark Butler. pp.151was published by the European Court of Human Rights and the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights on 21 March 2011, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. It is the first comprehensive guide to European non-discrimination law. European non-discrimination law, as constituted by the European Union non-discrimination directives, and Article 14 of and Protocol 12 to the European Convention on Human Rights, prohibits discrimination across a range of contexts and a range of grounds such as race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, religion or belief, political or other opinion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability and language. The Handbook offers practical guidance to help people with discrimination claims. It covers: the context and background to European non-discrimination law (including the United Nations human rights treaties), discrimination categories and defences, the scope of the law (including who is protected) and the grounds protected. It examines European Union Law and the European Convention on Human Rights as complementary systems, drawing on them interchangeably to the extent that they overlap, while highlighting differences where these exist. It is aimed at legal and allied practitioners at national and European level, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, law-enforcement officials, and others involved in giving legal advice, such as national human rights institutions, equality bodies and legal advice centres, to whom it will be distributed. It can also be consulted on-line or downloaded on the Handbook launch page. It is already available in English, French and German. Versions will eventually be available in almost all EU languages as well as Croatian. Launching the Handbook at a seminar for judges and legal practitioners at the European Court of Human Rights on 21 March 2011, the Court's President Jean-Paul Costa said: "The Handbook will improve access to justice for victims of discrimination across Europe."

http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/ECHR+Publications/ECHR+Publications/Home+page/

http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/homepage_EN (launch at the European Court of Human Rights). 

COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCH USERS

He has published popular articles on the domestic and transnational struggles to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice, the Pinochet precedent, and the Pinochet-era human rights trials in Chile, in a broad range of outlets including The Times, The Guardian, the Santiago Times, Open Democracy, the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA), Amnesty International (Chile), El Mostrador (Chile), and has acted as a consultant to and occasionally appeared on a wide range of documentary and television and radio programmes addressing these topics including CNN, Channel Four News, BBC News 24, BBC World Service and Austrian Public Radio. He has also been quoted in newspaper and Web-based media including: The Observer; the Independent; the Santiago Times (Chile); the Belfast Telegraph; and the Malaysia News.

He has briefed, and continues to brief, non-governmental organisations and government departments on international human rights issues. For example, he visited Chile in May 2008 to observe and assess the work of the recently established Criminal Public Defenders (Defensoria Penal Publica) at the invitation ofthe Defensoria and the British Council (Chile). For press coverage see articles in Cavancha (6 May), La Estrella (8 May) and Denfensoria press statements:

http://www.cavancha.cl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4554&Itemid=2

www.estrellaiquique.cl/

http://www.defensoriapenal.cl/interior/noticias/dpp.php?id=3917

http://www.defensoriapenal.cl/interior/noticias/dpp.php?id=3916

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He has been consulted on the history of English law and legal institutions by English Heritage, BBC TV - Timewatch, the documentary film, "Scandalous Women" and "Who Do You Think You Are?" - and he has appeared on the BBC Radio Four Series, "Major Victorian legislation, and how it changed British society."

He was involved in the making of the BBC Radio Four series, "Voices from the Old Bailey" (July-August 2011), examining how far the law gave everyone a fair trial, from the lowest to the highest in society:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01380pf/Voices_from_the_Old_Bailey_Series_2_Whose_Law_Is_It_Anyway/

His scholarship, and an expert opinion he wrote for the Law Society, were referred to and formed part of the arguments addressed to the High Court and Court of Appeal in Prudential PLC v Special Commissioner of Income Tax (14-15 July 2010). The case, which concerns the efficacy and scope of legal professional privilege (LPP), will be heard by the Supreme Court in November 2011.

Other consultancy includes research commisssioned by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) entitled The Burden of Proof in Personal Injury Cases in Western Europe and in European Union Law: A Legal and Socio-Legal Analysis (2001, approx. 60,000 words).

Core Member, "Dynamics of Memories" Research Group. This international and interdisciplinary group investigates the politics of memory. Funding has been awarded by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University,the European Science Foundation and the AHRC.A Colloquium on "Memory and Justice" was organised at Lancaster University in 2009. See, further, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/dynamicsofmemories/

Co-Director, "Conceptualising the contemporary 'professions': interdisciplinary debates". An Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Research Seminar Programme, bringing together scholars, practitioners, regulators and consumer representatives from Britain and abroad. Bid for funding prepared with colleagues in Lancaster's Geography Department, Leeds University Business School, the Geography Department of the University of Nottingham, and the Cass Business School of City University. 2009-10. For further details, please see: http://www.contemporaryprofessions.com/

Co-Director, The Lancaster Professions Network. This Network is designed to bring together academics from across the university interested in, broadly defined, the professions. The new network has two substantive aims: To bring Lancaster academics together to share expertise and ideas; and to generate interactions between Lancaster academics and practitioners. Members of the network are drawn from across the University. 2008- . See, further, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/professions/

ALLIED ACTIVITIES

• • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society;
  • Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London University;
  • Research Affiliate, Centre for Comparative Legal History, Macquarie Law School; and
  • Network Partner, International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany.

INVITED LECTURES

He has delivered over 270 invited lectures in 20 countries, many as key note or plenary speaker.

Recent and forthcoming keynote and plenary lectures include:

"Courts, Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Lessons from Chile", the École Normale Supérieure, 1 April 2008;

"Educación de la profesión jurídica: tendencias globales y su relación con la Defensa Penal Pública", Universidad de Talca (Santiago campus), Santiago de Chile, 7 May 2008;

"A Battleground of Memory and Justice. Chile since the 1973 Coup", Symposium: 'Coming to terms with Europe's traumatic pasts - an international comparison', the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna, 26 June 2008;

"Unspeakable Truths. Hatred and Justice in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990)", City of Lancaster Annual Holocaust Day Lecture, The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, 29 January 2009 (this lecture was supported by Lancaster City Council, the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) and Amnesty International (Lancaster);

"A Battleground of Memory and Justice. Chile since the 1973 Coup", War Crimes Conference, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 21 February 2009;

"The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile", International Forum Conference, Bologna, 6 March 2009;

"Back to the '70s: The Revolution in Legal Scholarship and Education Revisited", Society of Legal Scholars Centennial Conference, Keele University, 8 September 2009;

"Revolting Law - Revolting Law Teachers? The Struggle to Render Law a Subject Fit for University Education". Inaugural Lecture Marking the Official Opening of the Center for Legal History, Exeter University, UK. 23 June 2010.

"The Law Lords, Amnesty International and the Pinochet Case: What Happened and Why?". The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London and The Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster University in association with The British Institute of International and Comparative Law; The Centre for Contemporary British History @ Kings College, London; The Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; The Legal History Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and SOLON. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 25 November 2010.

"Amnesty International: Past, Present and Future". A Public Lecture reflecting on Amnesty Internationals 50th Birthday". The Dukes Theatre and Cinema, Lancaster, 24 May 2011. Co-organised with Amnesty International.

Other recent lectures include:

"The Influence of Morton Horwitz in the English-Speaking World Beyond the USA", A Conference in Honor of Professor Morton Horwitz, Harvard Law School, 27 September, 2008;

"The prospects for prosecutions of leaders who commit genocide and other international crimes ten years after the Pinochet case." Universal Jurisdiction for International Crimes. Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), London, 9 October 2008;

"The Struggle to Address the Human Rights Crimes of the Pinochet Dictatorship". Conference, "The Pinochet Case and its Consequences, Ten Years On." A collaboration between the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London; JUSTICE (the British Section of the International Commission of Jurists); and the Center for Law and Society, Lancaster University. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 11 November 2008.

"The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile", Workshop on Memory and Justice, Lancaster University, 15 May 2009;

Contributor,Lawyers, Courts, Judges and Law School: A celebration of Robert Stevens' Scholarship, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 9 June 2009;

"Problematizing Virtue. Reflections on International Human Rights Activism", ESRC Ethics Workshop, 'Research Ethics as Practice at the Global Crossroads', Lancaster University, 22 June 2009;

"The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile", Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) International Conference - "Taking Stock of Transitional Justice", University of Oxford, 27 June 2009;

"The Language and Politics of 'Denial': Knowing About and Confronting Human Rights Atrocities in Austria and Chile", Faculty Lecture Series, Boston University Law School, USA, 18 March 2010;

"The Globalization of Legal Education", Harvard Law School, USA. 29 March 2010;

England's Twentieth Century Ancien Regime. The Belated Modernisation of Legal Education, Legal Scholarship and Legal Culture", Legal History Workshop, Harvard Law School, USA, 12 April 2010;

"The Reception of Chilean Academic Refugees, and Chilean Culture, in the UK, following the Pinochet Coup of 1973,"Conference on the World University Service Programme for Chilean refugee scholars (1973-1985), within the broader context of the Chilean and allied refugee experience in the UK, Warwick University, 23 May 2010;

"Legal Education and Legal Critics in England". International Conference, 'Legal Education and Legal Critics'. ENS (École normale supérieure), département de sciences sociales de l'ENS, Paris, 11 June 2010;

"Law in Context. Past, Present and Future", Conference on 'Law in Context', Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 7 July 2010;

"'A Hatred of Disorder'. Liberty and Legal Science in England since 1850". The Geneology of Liberty. Conference in Honour of Quentin Skinner. Institute of Advanced Study, Lancaster University, 11 November 2010.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP:

• The International Journal of the Legal Profession (1994-);
• Legal Ethics (1997-);
• Studies in Law, Politics and Society (1990-);
• The Company Lawyer (1980-) (1980-84, Founding Associate Editor);
• Clio and Themis (the European Review of Legal History produced by the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, 2007-); and
• The Journal of Legal History (1995-).

VISITING PROFESSOR:

• Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (Spain) - November 1990.
• Boston University, School of Law (USA) - March-April 2010.
• Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science (USA) - January-March 1998.
• McGill University, Faculty of Law (Canada) - January 1991.
• University of Münster, Faculty of Law (Germany) - June 2003.
• University of Oklahoma, School of Law (USA) - June-July 1976.
• University of Osaka, Department of Law (Japan) - October-December 1991.
• Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (USA) - September 2003-June 2004.
• University of Western Ontario, School of Law (Canada) - July 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 and 1989.

VISITING FELLOW:

• Amherst College, Department of Political Science (USA) - February-April 1993
• Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (UK) - October 1992- July 1993.
• University of Manchester, Faculty of Law (UK) - October 1996-May 1997.
• Princeton University, Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies (USA) - September 1987-March 1998.
• University of Wisconsin, Institute for Legal Studies (USA) - March-April 1985.

DISTINGUISHED FACULTY:

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law(Canada) -September-October 2002.

TEACHING AWARD

Awarded the Lancaster University Teaching Prize (2007) in recognition of his innovative curriculum design with respect to "Responses to Massive Violations of Human Rights" and the way that he inspired student learning.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

I welcome postgraduate and doctoral applications from students in the areas of:

· Responses to massive violations of human rights.

· Universal jurisdiction, especially with respect to senior state officials.

· The domestic and transnational struggle to bring General Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator, to justice, its impact and larger significance.

· Human rights struggles in Latin America, notably, Chile and Argentina.

· Transitional justice.

· Law and globalization.

· Law and society in England since 1780.

· Lawyers and Society.

· Visual images of law and lawyers.

· Law and politics.

· Legal education.

· Law and literature.

.

Research Supervision

Current and recently completed PhD and Post-Doctoral Students include:

• Dr Christos Boukalas, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, is extending his research on the counterterrorism measures introduced in the United States post-9/11 and their socio-political implications.
• R. Gwynedd Parry completed his dissertation on David Hughes Parry - A Jurist in Society (2009) which has subsequently been revised and published as a book.
• Ben Mayfield is completiing his dissertation on the emergence of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
• Alex Murray, a Faculty Research Scholar, is completing a comparative analysis of the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals and the European Court of Human Rights.
• Craig Newbery-Jones, completed his LLM thesis A Study of the Portrayal of the Legal Profession in Punch Magazine and other Works of Victorian Satire in 2009.

RESEARCH FUNDING

He has been awarded research and allied funding from the following sources:

· The Arts and Humanities Research Council.

· The American Council for Learned Societies.

· The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

· The British Academy.

· The British Council (Chile).

· The Council of Europe.

· The Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, USA.

· The European Agency for Fundamental Rights.

· The European Court of Human Rights.

· The European Science Foundation (HERA).

· The European Union, Grotius Programme.

· The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London University.

· Lancaster University, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Advanced Studies.

· The Law Society.

· The Law and Society Association.

· The Leverhulme Trust.

· The Nuffield Foundation.

· The Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA.

· The Republic of Chile, Ministry of Justice, Denfensoria Pública.

· The Society of Public Teachers of Law.

· The Socio-Legal Studies Association.

· The Twenty-Seven Foundation (Institute of Historical Research, London University).

Research Grants

He has been awarded research and allied funding from the following sources:

· The Arts and Humanities Research Council.

· The American Council for Learned Societies.

· The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.

· The British Academy.

· The British Council (Chile).

· The Council of Europe.

· The Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, USA.

· The European Agency for Fundamental Rights.

· The European Court of Human Rights.

· The European Science Foundation (HERA).

· The European Union, Grotius Programme.

· The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London University.

· Lancaster University, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Advanced Studies.

· The Law Society.

· The Law and Society Association.

· The Leverhulme Trust.

· The Nuffield Foundation.

· The Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA.

· The Republic of Chile, Ministry of Justice, Denfensoria Pública.

· The Society of Public Teachers of Law.

· The Socio-Legal Studies Association.

· The Twenty-Seven Foundation (Institute of Historical Research, London University).

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