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Staff Profile

Professor Ian Ward

Professor of Law

Background

Roles and Responsibilities

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

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

AIDEL 

Research

Research Interests

My principal area of research expertise lies at the intersection of law, literature and history. Over the last few years my research had focussed more closely on associated areas of early modern English and Roman law and literature. My most recent books areThe Reformation of the English Constitution (Hart 2024) and The Trials of Charles I (Bloomsbury, 2023). Two further books will be shortly published. Law, History, Text: writing ironic legal histories will be published by Routledge in spring 2026. Law, Literature and the Romans will be published by Hart in 2027.

Research Roles

I served as School Research Director between 2001-2007, and Director of Postgraduate Research on three occasions over the last twenty-years, most latterly in 2021.

Postgraduate Supervision

I have successfully supervised over twenty postgraduate research students, whose work has ranged across the spectrum of public law, human rights, legal history and literary jurisprudence. 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, Verona, Alberta and the Catholic University in Lisbon. I have also served as Shakespeare Moot Court Judge at McGill University, and been a visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maxmilian University in Munich and adjunct professor at the Southern Cross University in Australia. I currently serve as international expert on for AIDEL, the leading European law and literature research network based at the University of Verona. I am an editorial board member for Law and Literature, Law and Humanities and Polemos.

Funding

I was reecipient of AHRB funding in 2002-3 for research in English constitutional history.

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

Stage 1 Constitutional Law

Stage 3 Law and History

Stage 3 Law and Literature




Publications