Dr Tom Frost
Lecturer in Law

  • Email: tom.frost@ncl.ac.uk
  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8759
  • Address: Newcastle Law School,
    21-24 Windsor Terrace,
    Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
    NE1 7RU.

Introduction

Tom joined the Law School in September 2010 from the University of Southampton, where he was a Part-Time Lecturer and PhD candidate. His PhD thesis focused on the implications of the thought of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben to law and legal reasoning.

Tom has also taught at the University of Portsmouth and the University of Leicester. Additionally, he has helped draft submissions to Parliamentary Select Committees, including the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights and the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, focusing on the conflicts between anti-terrorism legislation and human rights.

Roles and Responsibilities

Deputy Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

Director, Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice

For more information please see: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nuls/research/groups/humanrightsgrp.htm

Qualifications

LLB (Hons) (Leicester, 2005)

PhD (Soton, 2011)

Previous Positions

Part-Time Lecturer, University of Southampton (2009-2010)

Part-Time Lecturer, University of Portsmouth (2009-2010)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Southampton (2006-2009)

Tutorial Assistant, University of Leicester (2005-2007)

Memberships

Director, Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and Social Justice (NHRSJ)

Member, North East Medico-Legal Society

Member, Society of Legal Scholars

Research Interests

Continental philosophy; legal reasoning; transitional justice; legal subjectivity

My main research interest is in continental philosophy, and in particular the works of Giorgio Agamben, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas, and how their works relate to law, justice and ethics. 

I am currently investigating the theological origins of law, justice and human rights, with reference to the work of Agamben, St Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas and Pellagius. 

I also have interests in theories of legal reasoning. I am developing work in relation to the interplay between continental philosophy and transitional justice.

Future Research

I am currently undertaking research relating to my doctoral thesis, focusing upon the potential influence Emmanuel Levinas had on the thought of Giorgio Agamben.

Conference Presentations

Tom Frost, 'Tahrir Square and Truth Commissions', Paper presented at Transitional Justice and Restorative Justice: Potential, Pitfalls and Future, Durham Law School, Durham University, 16th September 2011.

Tom Frost, 'The Hyper-Hermeneutic Gesture of a Subtle Revolution', Paper presented at the Critical Legal Conference 2011, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, 10th September 2011.

This paper is available at: http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/?p=4247

Tom Frost, 'Agamben and the Political Tradition'. Paper presented at 'Agamben and the Futures of Law, Politics and Philosophy', Newcastle Law School Symposium, 9th March 2011. 

For more information see: http://www.humanrights.ie/index.php/2011/02/07/forthcoming-conference-agamben-and-the-future-of-law-politics-and-philosophy/

Tom Frost, 'The Rule of Law as a legal tool of oppression and domination in a postcolonial context, Paper presented as Staff Seminar, School of Law, University of Portsmouth, 20th May 2010.

Tom Frost, 'Agamben and the House of Saud', Paper presented as Staff Seminar, School of Law, University of Southampton, 29th October 2009.

Tom Frost, 'Agamben's Sovereign Legalisation of Foucault', Paper presented at the Critical Legal Conference 2009, School of Law, University of Leicester, 11th September 2009. 

Tom Frost, 'Agamben, the Exception and Law', Paper presented at 6th Annual International Conference on Law, The Law Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece, 21st July 2009.

Tom Frost, 'Giorgio Agamben, the Exception and Law'. Paper presented as Staff Seminar, School of Law, University of Southampton, 13th May 2009.

Tom Frost, 'The Theory of the State of Exception', Paper presented at 2nd Regional Doctoral Conference, School of Law, University of Reading, 11th March 2009.

Tom Frost, 'The State of Exception', Paper presented at 1st Regional Doctoral Conference, School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University, 12th December 2007.

Undergraduate Teaching

LAW1010 - Legal Institutions and Method (Stage One) - Course Convenor

LAW3024 - Medicine and the Law (Stage Three)

LAW3032 - Legal Theory (Stage Three)

LAW3040 - US Constitutional Law (Stage Three) - Course Convenor

Previous Experience

   Newcastle University:

LAW1054 - Introduction to English Law & The Law of Contract (Stage One)

   University of Southampton:

Criminal Law (2006-2010)

Criminology (2009-2010)

Legal Systems and Reasoning (2009-2010)

   University of Portsmouth:

Criminal Law (2009-2010)

   University of Leicester:

Constitutional and Administrative Law (2005-2007)

Medical Law (2005-2006)

Analysing Law (2005-2006)