Centre for the Study of Law in Society.

www.shef.ac.uk/law/clis

Some Current and Recently Completed Research Students• A Spriggs: Sentence decision making at the custody threshhold

in English Magistrates Courts following the Criminal Justice Act 2003.

• T Collingbourne: Implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Advancing Disability Rights.

• P Dragneva: Mediating Europeanisation: Challenges to the Transposition and Implementation of the Waste Management Aquis.

• R Sanders: Integration of European Mortgage Laws.

Law School Staff Members in CLISConvenor: Tamara Hervey

Diego Acosta Tawhida AhmedJane Ball Estella BakerPaul Cardwell Vicky ChicoLynn Hagger Richard KirkhamDimitrios Kyritsis Sorcha MacLeodClaire McGourlay Gwen RobinsonJoanna Shapland Carolyn ShelbournLindsay Stirton Ruth Stirton Maggie Wykes

CLIS currently has projects funded by the Sheffi eld University Excellence Exchange Scheme, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Research ThemesCLIS supports all types of socio-legal research, including empirical research. The School of Law, University of Sheffi eld, has a long-standing reputation for socio-legal research, especially in public law fi elds. Links with the Sheffi eld Centre for International and European Law enhance the international, EU and comparative law work of the cluster. The law relating to public services, such as health and housing is with the cluster’s current interests, and feeds international legal and policy developments.

The cluster’s work also interfaces with interactions between research and teaching, including the widening access agenda.

CLIS also hosts work on Legal Theory, including the Jurisprudence Reading Group.

Research LinksMembers of CLIS have many internal and external links. Notable internally are the departments of Politics, Landscape and Architecture, Economics, Sociological Studies and Journalism. Externally CLIS members are linked with the University of Liverpool, University of Newcastle, University of Nottingham, University of Birmingham, Queens University Belfast, New York University, De Montfort University, Agence Nationale d’Information sur le Logement and European Court of Justice.

Seminar SeriesCLIS organises an annual seminar series with presentations from a wide range of speakers, including internationally renowned academics and Sheffi eld staff and PhD students. Various topics are explored in the series with the purpose being to stimulate debate and explore diff erent approaches to socio-legal study.

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• British and Irish Ombudsman Association: Richard Kirkham with Brian Thompson (University of Liverpool) presented a report from academics on their review of public sector Ombudsman at the British and Irish Ombudsman Association Biennial Conference, University of Warwick, 7-8 May 2009.

• European Law and New Health Technologies - ESRC Seminar Series (Nov 2009): The fi rst in a series of seminars discussing the defi ning features of the European law approach to new health technologies and its signifi cance was co-hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law in Society and the Sheffi eld Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics.

• UACES Symposium with Professor Roger Brownsword(Nov 2009): The symposium provided an opportunity for participants to use law, public health, bioethics and political theory and science to provide innovative and interdisciplinary insights into the potential of ‘superstewardship’ in the context of public health.

• Healthcare Advice and Knowledge Transfer: Lynn Hagger has been appointed as a Non-executive Director at Leeds Teaching NHS Trust, a member of the Paediatric Expert Advisory Group for the Commission on Human Medicine, vice-chair, Sheffi eld Children’s NHS Foundation Trust Clinical Ethics Forum, Law and ethics training for Research Ethics Committee members for the NHS Patient Safety Agency’s National Research Ethics Service and NHS Trusts and 0joint organiser of Value of Life and Value of Death National Conference with Sheffi eld Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Ethics Group.

• Professions Progression Partnerships Event (Nov 2009): The PPP Law scheme is an Outreach scheme run with South Yorkshire schools and colleges, working with Year 12 students who have expressed an interest in studying Law at Higher Education level.

• “Court in the Act”!: Think of your favourite courtroom drama and then imagine witnessing the trial scene fi rst hand. In an imaginative, inspirational outreach scheme, pupils from several local schools come to the School of Law to watch a very realistic, devised trial scene.Claire McGourlay has recently been awarded £3,000 from the University’s KTP Rapid Response fund for future dates for Court in the Act.

• Social Housing Research and Analysis: Jane Ball was invited to do a research interview on the 14 January 2010 for a project by the Institute for Social Research and Analysis in Vienna . Her contribution concerned specifi cally innovation in social housing in Lyon.

• Visiting Scholar - Liu Liming: Liu Liming, Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, School of Law. Liu Liming was part of CLIS from January 2010 and is here for one year, and her research will be a comparative study on judicial systems and the criminal policy. Her research area in general is Jurisprudence criminal justice and socio-legal studies and she is continuing to research public opinion and the Chinese Judicial system.

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Estella Baker participated in the staff panel session at the University of Sheffi eld Faculty of Social Science Postgraduate Research Student Conference. Rebecca Sanders also presented a paper at this event that was attended by staff and students from across the Faculty.

Jane Ball was invited to present ‘Fragmenting property for aff ordability: Shared ownership or “new” tenures in England and France’, University of Rovira e Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 13 May 2010.

Tamara Hervey was invited to present ’Adjudicating in the Shadow of the Informal Settlement?’: The European Court of Justice, ‘New Governance’ and Social Welfare’ at the Transatlantic Conference on New Governance and the Transformation of Law, University of Wisconsin, USA, 20-21 November 2009.

Tamara Hervey and Mark Flear (Queens University Belfast) presented “Mapping the defi ning features of the EU regulatory approach to new health technologies” at the Regulation in the Age of Crisis conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 17 June 2010.

Richard Kirkham presented ‘A critique of Mike Adler’s new book on Administrative Justice’ at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, 30 March- 1 April 2010.

Dimitrios Kyritsis presented ‘The Normativity of the Practice of Offi cials’ at ‘The Normative Dimension of Law’ UCSIA Workshop, University of Antwerp, 3- 4 June 2009.

Dimitrios Kyritsis was invited to participate in the UK-Analytic Legal and Political Philosophy Conference 2009, York, 18-19 September 2009.

Dimitrios Kyritsis presented ‘Two Models of Judicial Deference’ at the Constitutional Theory Seminar, University of Oxford, 4 May 2010.

Carolyn Shelbourn presented ‘Appropriating the past or appropriating private property? Would the introduction of the concept of archaeological value improve the law as a means of protecting the past?’, at the Centre for Ethics and the Cultural Heritage Conference, Durham University, 6-8 July 2009.

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