Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

LLM (Taught Degrees) Selector

Qualifications

BA (Philosophy) Albion College (USA)

MA (Philosophy) Toronto

PhD (Philosophy) Toronto

LLB Toronto

LLM (European and International Law) Amsterdam

Barrister and Solicitor, British Columbia

Previous Positions

1997- 2005 Private Practice (British Columbia)

1989- 1996 Visiting Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Philosophy, University of Victoria (Canada)

1987- 1989  Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Trent University (Canada)

Memberships

Society of Legal Scholars

Socio-Legal Studies Association

Research Interests

Competition Law, Company and Commercial Law, Criminal Law, International Economic Law (including WTO Law), Legal Theory, Law and Economics, and the relationship which Law has to Ethics and Philosophy generally.

My present research involves consideration of normative justifications for cartel control law in Europe.

Conference Presentations

 “The Cartel Offence within a “World Class” Competition Regime:  An Assessment of the BIS Consultation Exercise”  Paper to be Presented to a Conference “The BIS Consultation on a Competition Regime for Growth: One Year On” Newcastle University, 13 April 2012

“Rethinking the "Controlling Mind":  Has Vicarious Liability's Time Come?” Paper Presented to the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Section, Socio-Legal Studies Association Meeting in Leicester, 5 April 2012

“Regulating the Banking Sector:  A Case of Public Goods, Externalities and Pigovian Taxes" Paper Presented to the Banking Section, Socio-Legal Studies Association Meeting in Leicester,    4 April 2012

“A Normative Approach to the Criminalization of Cartels” Paper Presented to the EU and Competition Section, Annual Meeting of the Society of Legal Scholars, Cambridge, 6 September 2011 and to the Annual Meeting of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, Brighton, 13 April 2011.

Undergraduate Teaching

Company Law

Criminal Law (seminars)

Legal Theory (seminars)

Postgraduate Teaching

International Sale of Goods

International Commercial Arbitration

• Wardhaugh B. A Normative Approach to the Criminalisation of Cartel Activity. Legal Studies 2012, 32. In Press.
• Wardhaugh Bruce. Closing the Deterrence Gap: Individual Liability, the Cartel Offence and the BIS Consultation. Competition Law Journal 2011, 10, 175-194.
• Wardhaugh Bruce. Socratic Civil Disobedience: Some Reflections on Morgentaler. Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 1989, 2, 91 - 110.
• Wardhaugh Bruce. From Natural Law to Legal Realism: Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory and the Development of American Conflicts of Law Since 1830. Maine Law Review 1989, 41, 301 - 358.