Dr. Paul Robertshaw

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Qualifications

  • Solicitor by Articles 1957-1962
  • University of London Institute of Education Certificate of Education (Adult) Garnett College 1963-1964 Distinction
  • MA by Thesis ‘Planner, Applicant and Public in Development Control- an empirical study of administrative action in two Boroughs and two Rural Districts’ University of Kent 1967-1969
  • PhD ‘Legal Need. a conceptual and empirical analysis, being a study of outcomes in 5 Common Law jurisdictions with special reference to criminal justice’ University of Wales 1989

Teaching Career

  • 1964-1967 Newcastle upon Tyne College of Commerce, Lecturer in Law
  • 1969-1973 Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer in Law
  • 1973-1976 University of Hull, Lecturer in Law
  • 1977-2005 Cardiff University, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in Law

Selected Publications (1970-2005)

Traditional Legal Analysis

  • Options, Pre-Emptions and Certainty of Consideration 36 Conveyancer (1972) 317-324[1]
  • Conversion and the Fate of Lawes v Bennet 5 Anglo-American Law Review (1976) 234-310[2]
  • Redundancy Consultation - Employer Unit 14 Industrial Law Journal (1985) 130-132[3]
  • Consent to Medical Procedures - Infantilising the Patient 1 Medical Law International (1993) 33-56
  • Providing Reasons for Administrative Decisions 27 Anglo-American Law Review (1998) 29-55
  • Review Role of the Court of Appeal 64 Modern Law Review (2001) 923-932
  • A Human Rights Conflict 22 Civil Justice Quarterly (2003) 265-274

Structuralist Legal Analysis

  • 'Persons Aggrieved' and the Locus Standi Problem Public Law (1971) 169-188[4][5]
  • Legal Definition of the Family: historical and sociological exploration 25 Sociological Review (1977) 289-309
  • Equitable Evasion of the Privity Doctrine 7 Anglo-American Law Review (1978) 100-120

Territory and Homeostasis

  • Characteristics of the Judicial Group and their Relationship to Decision-making 47 Australian Law Journal (1973) 572-586
  • New Perspectives on the Judicial Process - a Reply to Blackburn J 50 Australian Law Journal (1976) 84-88
  • Judicial Politics within the State 9 International Journal of the Sociology of Law (1981) 201-224[6]

Legal Theory

  • Structuralist Theory of Law 2 Liverpool Law Review (1980) 31-43[7]
  • Sur la Theorie du Proces Criminel 9 Proces (1982) 41-59

Legal Economics

  • Developments in the Control of Public Expenditure 14 Cambrian Law Review (1983) 78-97
  • Political Economy of Bail Reform 7 Contemporary Crises (1983) 31-36
  • Economics and Policy in Contemporary British Penal Developments ed G Skogh Proceedings of the First Meeting of the European Association for Law and Economics, Nationalekonomiska Institutionem, Lunds Universitet (1984)

Structuralist Rhetoric

From around 1983 Robertshaw's interest began to focus on language in legal contexts, influenced by Bernard Jackson at Liverpool and Ottmar Ballweg and Katarina Sobota at Mainz. This area of his work made developments in the theory of genre and narrative. Here he developed a blend of structuralist analysis with traditional rhetoric.

  • Summary Justice - Judges Address Juries xi + 210pp Cassells (1998)
  • Semantic and Linguistic Aspects of Sex Discrimination Judgments ed. D Carzo and B Jackson Law and Social Science (1985)[8][9]
  • Les Categories Binaires et la Constitution en Droit du Sujet Feminin XII (25) Revue de la Recherche Juridique (1986) 77-93
  • Contemporary Legal Constitution of Woman 8 Oxford Literary Review (1986) 198-207
  • Hierarchies, Metaphors and Judicial Decisions Semiotics 1984 (1987) Eds. J Evans and J Deely XII Symposium on Legal Semiotics 527-543[10]
  • Law, Language and Rhetoric 50 Modern Law Review (1987) 671-676
  • Das Richterliche 'Summing-up' im Fall Archer: eine Rhetorische Analyse 15 Rhetorik (1996) 96-114
  • Heralding and Framing in Archer eds. K Muller and S Newman Language in Court 18-36 (1996) Vista University Press
  • The Catalyst for Libel Reform - the Risks of Puncture Repair at Speed 28 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (1997) 79-104
  • Sentencing Medical Murderers eds. M Edwards and C Reid Oratory in Action Manchester University Press (2002) ch.8 100-117
  • Sentencing Parricides: Rhetoric and Silence16 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2003) 1-14
  • Logos and Pathos in Sentencing Dr William Parry 17 International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (2004) 7-51

Empiricism

The final area covered is empiricism, almost all in relation to various aspects of criminal justice.

  • Rethinking Legal Need - the Case of Criminal Justice, Dartmouth (1991) v+259[11]
  • Jury and Judge - the Crown Court in Action, Dartmouth 1995 ix + 218[12]
  • Acquittal Rates in 60 Crown Courts Criminal Law Review (1990) 629-636
  • Regional Jury Verdicts in Scotland Juridical Review (1991) 222-229
  • Survey Report on the Cardiff Bar and South Wales Solicitors Institute of Welsh Affairs (1991)[13][14]
  • Are Rural Juries Different? Eds. J Williams and C Harding Rural Law and Justice (1994) 51-64
  • Jury Populations and Jury Service 20 International Journal of the Sociology of Law (1992) 271-283[15]
  • 'Cracked Trials': What is Happening? Criminal Law Review (1992) 867-871[16]
  • ‘Guilty Plea Discount - Rule of Law or Role of Chance? 31 Howard Journal of Criminal Justice (1992) 53-75
  • Sentencing Rapists: First Tier Courts in 1991-1992 Criminal Law Review (1994) 343-345[17]
  • Method and Ethics in Advancing Jury Research 38 Medicine Science and the Law (1998) 328-334
  • Successful Sentencing Appeals - an Analysis 67 Journal of Criminal Law (2003) 257-268
  • Jurors' Recorded Deliberations - an Analysis. Eds. A Wagner and W Pencak Images in Law Ashgate (2006) ch.10, 175-204; includes a complete Arizona jury deliberation legally recorded and transcribed, funded by the British Academy; also translated into Japanese for the Osaka Law Faculty, 2012.

Awards

  • Social Science Research Council Advanced Course in Sociology of Law, Cambridge Summer 1976
  • Social Science Research Council in Economics of Law, York Summer 1978
  • Nuffield Foundation 6th Workshop in Text Analysis, University of East Anglia Summer 1985
  • British Academy, Transcription of Video-Tapes of live jury deliberation on four Arizona juries 2002 [18]

References

  1. ^ Maudsley and Burn Land Law 5th ed. 388
  2. ^ Keeton and Sheridan Equity 3rd ed. (1987) 305
  3. ^ Wedderburn The Worker and the Law 3rd ed. 895
  4. ^ Derived from a part of his MA thesis
  5. ^ SA de Smith Judicial Review of Administrative Action 3rd ed. 366
  6. ^ 2nd ed. Captus Press, York, Canada (1991); Set text on judicial politics for the European Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain
  7. ^ Modern Law Review (1983) 117
  8. ^ Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence 6th ed. (1994) 1251
  9. ^ P Corbetta Social Research Methodology (2002) 3.3
  10. ^ Sugarman Times Higher Education Supplement 28 Nov 1988
  11. ^ Based on his PhD. Reviews in: Criminal Law Review (1993) 329-330; Public Law (1993) 390-391; 14 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (1994) 104-105
  12. ^ Reviews in 143 New Law Journal (1995) 1180, 7 Journal of Forensic Psychology (1996) 459-460
  13. ^ The survey report led to the creation of the Commercial Law List at Cardiff in June 1998.
  14. ^ Gibb The Times 2 June 1995
  15. ^ R Dobson The Times 1 Feb 1994
  16. ^ JUSTICE Negotiated Justice (1993) 6
  17. ^ Developed from research presented on BBC TV Panorama; The Times 11 May 1994, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Sun 12 May 1994, The Independent 5 June 1994 (read online); Lacey and Wells Reconstructing Criminal Law 2nd ed (1998) 402
  18. ^ http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/awards/srg01_02.cfm
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