Professor Ian Ward
Professor of Law

Roles and Responsibilities

Former Alternate Head and Acting Head of the Law School, Research Director, Degree Programme Director for the BA Law with French Programme, and Degree Programme Director for Postgraduate Research.

Presently Deputy Undergraduate Degree Programme Director with a specific responsibility for Curriculum.

Qualifications

BA University of Keele, 1986
Ph.D University of Cambridge, 1989
LLM University of Toronto, 1990
MSc University of Leicester, 2010

Previous Positions

Lecturer, University of Durham
Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex
Professor, University of Dundee

Memberships

SLS

Research Interests

My principal area of research expertise lies at the intersection of law, literature and history. I have also published work in recent years in associated aspects of English constitutional law, and more recently still Counter-Terrorism law and policy. This latter research has culminated in the publication of 'Law, Text, Terror', by Cambridge University Press, in 2009.

Other Expertise

I have an ancillary interest in English constitutional history and thought.

Current Work

I am presently working on the presentation of law in the nineteenth century novel, more particularly those novels written by and for women. I am currently completing a book entitled 'Law and the Brontes' to be published by Palgrave in 2012.

Future Research

I intend to continue my work on the relation of law and literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century woman's novel.

Research Roles

Former School Research Director, 2001-2007.

Postgraduate Supervision

Current supervision of students completing doctoral research in the areas of nineteenth century law and literature, and international human rights.

If you would like further information on reading for a research degree at Newcastle Law School please see www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/postgraduate/research/index.htm

Esteem Indicators

I have held visiting positions at the Universities of Iowa, Turku, Montpellier, Alberta and the Catholic University in Lisbon, more recently serving as Shakespeare Moot Court Judge at McGill University. Most recently I was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maxmilian University in Munich, and I currently serve as international expert on a law and literature research network based at Verona University. Editorial board member for 'Law and Literature', 'Law and Humanities' and 'Polemos'. I was invited to give the Keynote address to the annual UKCLE conference in early 2009.

Funding

Recipient of AHRB funding in 2002-3 for research in English constitutional history.

Undergraduate Teaching

Stage 1 Public Law
Stage 3 Legal Theory, and Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism