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Research Newsletter.June 2010

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CONTENTS: Research Projects and Funding Research Cluster Seminars Conference Addresses Knowledge Exchange and Impact In the News Other Announcements Publications PGR Annual Newsletter RESEARCH PROJECTS AND FUNDING The Legal and Criminological Implications of Climate Change The School of Law has recently (29-30 April 2010) organised a 2 day workshop on the legal and criminological implications of climate change at the world-renown Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law located in the Basque region, Spain. Supported by an £8,000 grant from the British Academy and assistance from the Oñati Institute

itself, Tawhida Ahmed, Stephen Farrall, Matthew Hall and Duncan French hosted a ground-breaking conference of leading criminologists, international environmental lawyers and English lawyers to consider key issues surrounding climate change, as well as to begin the process of identifying cross-cutting themes and methodological aspects on the matter. With colleagues from Australia, Norway and the Netherlands supporting colleagues from eight British universities, the workshop proved to be a huge success. Topics included the legal consequences of a low-carbon future, the regulation of geo-engineering, the paradoxical harm of causing environmental damage in seeking to mitigate climate change, previous criminological implications of past mass migrations, the role of the citizen in a decentralised personal carbon trading system, and a human rights approach to climate change. Stephen Farrall, Director of the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Sheffield said that as this was 'one of the first occasions that lawyers and criminologists have talked about climate change together in an academic setting, this workshop will have an enduring significance'. Duncan

French, Director of Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, noted that 'Oñati was the perfect setting for inter-disciplinary discussion - its ethos of open dialogue and critical analysis permeated our own thinking and allowed for colleagues from diverse backgrounds to begin to understand each other's perspective'. Onati Institute: http://www.iisj.net/english.asp

(Pictured above: the workshop delegates at the Oñati Institute)

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PRIV-WAR Sorcha MacLeod and research student Alexandra Bohm presented a paper entitled 'Models of Public Accountability for Private Military and Security Contractors: The March Towards a Non-Statutory Regime in the UK' for workshop on 'The Public-Private Interface in the Management of PMSCs' in Berlin on 20 May 2010 as part of the EU-funded PRIV-WAR project. http://priv-war.eu Team success at the South Yorkshire Police ‘Leaders in Action’ Awards. A collaborative project involving a team from the School of Law has been awarded the South Yorkshire Partnership Award. The project – known as „Operation Blight‟ involved a series of initiatives to reduce criminal damage, in particular graffiti, in Barnsley. Dr Natasha Semmens and Mahlah Stamp (who graduated in 2008) advised the police on graffiti reduction strategies and carried out an extensive evaluation of the project. The winners were announced at a ceremony on 7 May 2010 by BBC Look North presenters Harry Gration and Christa Ackroyd. The prize of £1000

will be used to fund future partnership projects .

(Pictured above: Assistant Chief Constable Andy Holt, Sergeant Keith Baird, Dr Natasha Semmens, Inspector Mark Spooner and Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes.)

ICLS Conference 2010 Banking charges and consumer rights: a comparative perspective 7 June 2010 ICLS in conjunction with the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy held the conference here in the School of Law. Delegates and presenters including representatives from the Office of Fair Trading attended.

About the conference In Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National Plc, one of the first decisions of the newly established UK Supreme Court, it was held that unarranged overdraft bank charges are exempt from the unfair assessment of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contract Regulations. Although the decision was shortly followed by the OFT announcement not to pursue the matter any further, considering their Lordships´ invitation to Parliament to change the law, the last nail in this coffin may not have been hammered. This one day conference proposes to look at the decision of the Supreme Court from various legal angles i.e. contract, consumer and banking law domestically and from a European perspective, as well as considering the decision from an economics/law angle. The decision would also be put in the wider background of consumer protection in this area by considering the unfair commercial practice directive (and regulations) in order to see how, if at all, the two sets of regulations dovetail. Read more about the conference http://www.shef.ac.uk/law/icls/news_events/nc2010.html

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Physician Assisted Suicide Workshop SIBLE held the Physician Assisted Suicide workshop on 8 June 2010. The speakers at the workshop were; Derek Morgan, Hans van Delden, (University of Utrecht), Alastair Campbell (National University of Singapore) and Mary Ford (University of Strathclyde). View the workshop programme http://www.shef.ac.uk/content/1/c6/10/94/28/PAS%20Programme%20Final.pdf RESEARCH CLUSTER SEMINARS 14 April 2010 „Law without Frontiers‟ (ICLS) Professor John Bell University of Cambridge. 21 April 2010 „Public Participation in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms: Opportunities and Limitations‟, (SIBLE) Dr Michael Cardwell University of Leeds. 28 April 2010 'Links in a Chain: Man Dem, 'My Boys' or

Prison Gangs?'(CCR), Dr Coretta Phillips London School of Economics. 12 May 2010 Jean Monnet Seminar for European Integration and Joint Seminar with the Centre for International Policy Research (CIPOL) in the Politics Department „The Europeanization of Social Exclusion: 2000-2010‟ (CLIS and CIPOL), Professor Kenneth Armstrong, Queen Mary University of London. 26 May 2010 „Listening to the Crime Victim: Evaluating Victim Input at Sentencing‟‟ (CCR), Professor Julian Roberts, University of Oxford. The James Muiruri Annual International Law Lecture 2010 The James Muiruri Annual International Law Lecture is held each May and hosted by the University of Sheffield, School of Law's Centre for Law in its International Context. The Centre for Law in its International Context renamed their Annual Lecture in honour of James Muiruri, a PhD student in the Centre. James Muiruri was tragically killed in Kenya in January

2009 only a couple of months after successfully defending his thesis. This year‟s Lecture was held on 11 May 2010 and given by distinguished International Law Professor Robert McCorquodale, Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and former Dean at the University of Nottingham. The lecture welcomed 60 staff and students from across the University to hear Professor McCorquodale lecture on Accountability of Corporations for Human Rights Violations.

(Pictured above: Robert McCorquodale, left and Duncan French)

RESEARCH GROUPS EU Discussion Group Estella Baker organised a meeting of EU

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Discussion Group at which Maurice Roche (Department of Sociology) introduced a discussion of chapter 1 of his new book, Exploring the Sociology of Europe: An Analysis of the European Social Complex, (Sage, 2010), 26 May 2010. IMPACT ESC Working Group on Community Sanctions Gwen Robinson is a member of the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions (formed in December 2007). The group exists to encourage networking, foster discussion, stimulate empirical research, enable theoretical development and encourage critical and comparative work on community sanctions in European jurisdictions. Its specific interests and concerns include: 1. The historical development of community-based criminal justice sanctions in European jurisdictions, how community sanctions in European jurisdictions are currently configured (both as legal orders and as related

penal practices) and whether, in what ways and to what extent they are subject to significant ongoing reconfiguration or transformation 2. The emergence and significance of new forms of community sanction, such as compulsory drug treatment and electronic monitoring. 3. The effectiveness of these sanctions and their impacts: a. on sentencing b. on offenders c. on victims d. on communities e. on other stakeholders 4. Public attitudes to and media representations of such measures. For more information about this working group visit the ESC website http://www.esc-eurocrim.org/workgroups.shtml#sanctions (Pictured: Gwen Robinson 2nd from the right with the rest of the working group)

Women, Punishment and Community Sanctions: Human Rights and Social Justice Programme Gilly Sharpe is involved in a programme hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies at Strathclyde University. The core objective of the programme is to draw on international knowledge and expertise to critically assess cross cultural responses to lawbreaking by women with a particular emphasis upon human rights and social justice. The programme focuses on comparative experiences of community sanctions for women and girls, an area that has received relatively little academic and policy attention. In doing so it aims to extend existing academic debates about women‟s imprisonment and human rights, and provide a forum for academics, practitioners and policy makers to participate in the development of knowledge for policy, practice and research. The programme incorporates a series of three two-day events bringing together an invited international group of academics, service managers, policy-

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makers and advocates. At the second event on 28-29 June 2010 Gilly presented a paper entitled „Beyond Youth Justice: Working with Girls and Young Women who Offend‟. More information about the group can be found by following this link: http://www.instituteforadvancedstudies.org.uk/Programmes/Currentprogrammes/WomenOffenders.aspx IN THE NEWS Lilian Edwards spoke to Richard Madely on BBC Radio 2 Drivetime about the Digital Economy Bill on 6 April 2010. The media are particularly interested in the Digital Economy Bill and Lilian Edward‟s research is in demand. Journalists have been interviewing her and quoting from her blog and publications. Read some of the articles that relate to Lilian and the Digital Economy Bill, ranging from specialist websites law and IT to national newspapers such as the Guardian. Copyright crackdown bill could block 'any website' http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/03/31/copyright-

crackdown-bill-could-block-any-website-40088507/ That new Digital Economy bill clause: what will it actually do? (updated). The newly introduced clause requires a legal mind to unravel - we find a couple. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/31/digital-economy-clause-18 Government re-introduces controversial site-blocking powers http://www.out-law.com/page-10890

Tammy Hervey - Health Service Journal (HSJ) Tammy Hervey has been quoted in the article „Managers must not underestimate effect of EU law‟, 24 June, 2010 by Ben Clover. The article is a response to the paper „Why Europe matters to the NHS‟ that Tammy presented at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference & Exhibition, Liverpool, 23-25 June 2010. The HSJ is the most influential publication targeted at NHS senior management. The full article can be read at http://www.hsj.co.uk/home/nhs-confed-2010/managers-must-not-

underestimate-eu-laws-effect/5016346.article?referrer=RSS Michael Jefferson - Malaysian Star Michael Jefferson had the article 'How to choose the best UK Law School - for you!‟ published on the website of the (Malaysian) Star Newspaper, 13 May 2010. OTHER ANNOUCEMENTS Visiting Scholar - Julio Ponce Sole Professor Julio Ponce Sole from the University of Barcelona visited the School of Law on 4-6 May 2010 and taught Spanish Law classes on our undergraduate degree programme. He is an administrative lawyer interested in wide ranging EU and urban issues. George Zhou - Visits Harvard Law School George Zhou participated in the Institute for Global Law and Policy's first annual Workshop on Global Law and Economic Policy held on 2-11 June 2010 at Harvard Law School. The Workshop was an intensive ten day

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residential program designed for doctoral and post-doctoral scholars. The Workshop aims to promote innovative ideas and alternative approaches to issues of global law, economic policy and social justice in the aftermath of the economic crisis. The Workshop will bring together specialists from across the arts and sciences as well as the professional schools who are interested in the intersections between law, economics and global policy. As a participant, George joined over 80 young scholars and 20 leading faculty from around the world working on issues of global law and economic policy for serious research collaboration and debate. Michael Jefferson - New role for the SLSA Michael Jefferson is now the Labour Law stream organiser for the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Jane Ball - Visiting Professor Jane Ball is now a visiting Professor at University of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. University of Sheffield Faculty of Social Science Postgraduate Research Student Conference - 12 April 2010 Estella Baker participated in the staff panel session and Rebecca Sanders presented a paper at the event that was attended by staff and students from across the Faculty.

Making the Social Science Faculty work? Estella Baker co-organised initial meeting of new Social Science Interdisciplinary Discussion Group Network on the theme 'Making the Social Science Faculty work? An interdisciplinary discussion of interdisciplinarity', 11 June 2010. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Tawhida Ahmed Tawhida and Duncan French presented „Situating Climate Change in (International) Law: A Triptych of Competing Narratives‟ at Conference on the Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, 29-30 April 2010. Estella Baker Estella presented 'Transitional periods - how and when will the third pillar 'dissolve'?' to The Future of European Criminal Justice under the Lisbon Treaty conference, Academy of European Law, Trier, 11-12 March 2010 Estella presented 'Challenges for the Court of Justice in police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters' to The Future of Criminal Justice under the Lisbon Treaty conference, Swedish Ministry of Justice, Stockholm, 4-5 May 2010

Estella gave the keynote address 'Without a third pillar: European cooperation in justice and criminal policy under Lisbon', After Lisbon: The Future of European Law and Policy conference, Institute of European Law, University of Birmingham, 24-25 June 2010 Jane Ball Jane was invited to present 'Fragmenting property for affordability: Shared ownership or "new" tenures in England and France', University of Rovira e Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 13 May 2010. Russell Buchan Russell presented „State attribution and domestic legal remedies for preventing cyberattacks‟ with Lilian Edwards at CCD COE Conference on Cyber Conflict 2010, Tallinn, Estonia, 17 -18 June 2010. Paul James Cardwell Paul presented „The Governance of Migration in the EU‟s Mediterranean and Neighbourhood Policies: meeting point of the EU‟s External and Internal spheres?‟ at a conference organised by the University of Malta and Malta European Studies Association (MESA), held at the offices of the European Parliament in Valletta. The subject of the conference was „Asylum in Malta and the EU: Rights and Realities‟, 14 May 2010.

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Paul was invited to give a guest lecture on „EU Internal Market and External Relations‟ at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 25 May 2010. (Picture right: Paul at MESA)

Lilian Edwards Lilian presented „Sausages and Law: How not to legislate for the Digital Economy‟ at the Cafe Scientifique, Sheffield, 19 April 2010. http://www.sciencecafesheffield.org Lilian presented „Anti-Social Networking‟ for her inaugural lecture at University of Sheffield, 21 May 2010. Lilian presented „Anti-Social Networking‟ Arcadia seminar at the Cambridge University Library, Wolfson College, 01 June 2010. Lilian was invited to attend OECD Workshop on Internet intermediaries, Paris; closed meeting,16 June 2010. http://www.oecd.org/sti/ict/intermediaries Lilian presented „State attribution and domestic legal remedies for preventing cyberattacks‟ with Russell Buchan at CCD COE

Conference on Cyber Conflict 2010, Tallinn, Estonia, 17 -18 June 2010. Lilian presented „The Revolution will not be Televised: Online Elections and the Future of Democracy?‟ at GikII V, University of Edinburgh, 28-29 June 2010. Duncan French Duncan presented „International Environmental Law‟ at Uncertainty, risk and insecurity, an exploratory workshop at the University of Sheffield, 25 May 2010. Duncan presented „Iraq and Climate Change: The Mainstream Lawyer‟s Survival Guide‟ as a plenary paper at the annual Australian New Zealand Society of International Law conference held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 24-26 June 2010. Duncan presented „The role of global principles and universal values in maintaining the legitimacy of the Antarctic Treaty System (the “ATS”)‟ at an International Workshop on Antarctic Security held at the Australian National University, Canberra, 28-29 June 2010. Matthew Hall Matthew did the plenary presentation 'Are victims used as tools of the state? Are there parallels to penal populism? at the Annual

Conference of Victim Support Europe in Berlin, 27 May 2010. Matthew presented „Environmental Victims: Assessing the Liability of the State' at Conference on the Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, 29-30 April 2010. Tamara Hervey Tamara was invited to present „The Role of the European Court of Justice‟ at the International Conference on European Communicable Disease Control, University of Michigan, USA, 7-8 May 2010. Tamara and Mark Flear (Queens University Belfast) presented „Mapping the defining features of the EU regulatory approach to new health technologies‟ at the Regulation in the Age of Crisis conference, University College Dublin, Ireland, 17 June 2010. Tamara was invited to present „Why Europe matters to the NHS‟ at the NHS Confederation Annual Conference & Exhibition, Liverpool, 23-25 June 2010. Michael Jefferson Michael presented 'Discrimination Law to Equality Law' at the Association of Law Teachers' 45th Annual Conference at Clare

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College, Cambridge, 5-7 April 2010 Dimitrios Kyritsis Dimitrios presented 'Two Models of Judicial Deference' at the Constitutional Theory Seminar, University of Oxford, 4 May 2010 Sorch MacLeod Sorcha presented 'Applying Human Rights Standards to Private Military and Security Companies: The UK Experience', at Corporate Social Responsibility at the University of Sussex, 17 March 2010. Chamu Kuppuswamy Chamu presented „Dancing on thin ice - Discussions on traditional cultural expression (TCE) at WIPO‟ at GikII V, University of Edinburgh, 28-29 June 2010. Gwen Robinson Gwen presented 'Transforming probation in England & Wales: examining the influence of 'what works' at the First International Conference on Prison and Probation Research held at the National School for Penitentiary Administration in Agen, France, 3-4 June 2010. Gwen was one of the respondents at a seminar 'The Dynamics of Desistance' book launch seminar , National University of Ireland, 9 June 2010. The book written Deirdre Healy who is a former Research Associate here, is

part of a series edited by Stephen Farrall. http://www.ucd.ie/law/newsevents/name,58012,en.html

(Pictured above: Gwen Robinson, far left at the Dynamics of Desistence book launch)

Gilly Sharpe Gilly presented „Beyond Youth Justice: Working with Girls and Young Women who Offend‟ Institute of Advanced Studies Strathclyde University, 28-29 June 2010

PUBLICATIONS Tawhida Ahmed Tawhida Ahmed, T. Ahmed, „EU Governance and Minority Rights: Opportunities and Remaining Obstacles‟, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (Special Issue), 17:2 2010, 265-285 Estella Baker Estella Baker, 'Governing through crime - the case of the European Union' (2010) 7(3), European Journal of Criminology, 187-213 Andrew Costello Anthony E. Bottoms and Andrew Costello, Understanding Repeat Victimisation: A Longitudinal Study, in Shoham, S.G., Knepper, P., Kett, M. (Eds.), „International Handbook of Criminology‟, (2010: CRC Press, Oxford), 649-680 ISBN 978140085518

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Duncan French Duncan French „The regulation of Genetically modified organisms and International Law: A call for generalisation‟, in Bodiguel, L., and Cardwell, M., (Eds.), The Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms: Comparative Approaches (2010: Oxford University Press, Oxford), 355-385. ISBN 9780199542482 Stephen Farrall Stephen Farrall and Hay, C., „NOT SO TOUGH ON CRIME? Why Weren‟t the Thatcher Governments More Radical in Reforming the Criminal Justice System?‟, British Journal of Criminology, 50, April 2010, 550–569. Stephen Farrall, Series editor of the „International Series on Desistance and Rehabilitation‟,

Deirdre Healy „The Dynamics of Desistance Charting pathways through change‟, (2010: Willan Publishing, Uffculme) ISBN 9781843927839

Simon Holdaway Simon Holdaway, Die Integration ethnischer Minderleiten in die britische Polizei, in Daniella Hunold (ed.) Fremde als Ordnungshuter? Die Poliizei in der Zuwanderungsgesellschaft Deutschland Vs Verlag Fur Soczialwissenschaften, Heileberg, 187- 197. Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm Veronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm „Rome I: Evolution or Status Quo? (An analysis of the UK position as to the balance between flexibility, certainty and predictability achieved in articles 3, 4 and 9 of the Rome I Regulation.‟) in Fernandez Arroyo, DP and Gonzalez Martin, N (Eds.), 2010: Porrua, Coyoacan, Mexico), 553-575. ISBN 9786070903601

Severine Saintier Severine Saintier „Loyalty as a tool to combat contractual unfairness: A French perspective‟ in Kenny, M., Devenney, J. and Fox O‟Mahony, L. (Eds.), „Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable‟ (2010: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), 62-78. ISBN: 9780521190534 Joanna Shapland Joanna Shapland, Victims and Criminal Justice in Europe, in Shoham, S.G., Knepper, P., Kett, M. (Eds.), „International Handbook of Victimology‟, (2010: CRC Press, Oxford), 347-372. ISBN 9781420085471

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George (Qi) Zhou Qi Zhou, „An economic perspective on legal remedies for unconscionable contracts‟, European Review of Contract Law, 6, 1, 2010, 25-38. Qi Zhou, „An economic perspective on legal remedies for unconscionable contracts‟, in Kenny, M., Devenney, J. and Fox O‟Mahony, L. (Eds.), „Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable‟ (2010: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge), 129-144. PGR ANNUAL NEWSLETTER IN THE NEWS Simon Crowther,an undergraduate politics student here at Sheffield, took part in last summer's CILASS Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience scheme. Under the

Supervision of Russell Buchan, Simon looked at SIAC, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission. His work researched during the internship is due to be published in the Cambridge student law review. On 21 May 2010, a piece by him "No room for secret evidence in British Justice System" was published in the Guardian newspaper. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Tabitha Collingbourne Tabitha attended the inaugural Global Research Colloquium on Disability Law and Policy, held in Galway, Ireland. The Colloquia are hosted by a consortium of three international academic centres: the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at the National University of Ireland, the Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University, USA, and the Richard Crossman Chair of Social Welfare and Social Planning at the University of Haifa, Israel. The aim is to bring together an emerging community of scholars in the disability field whose ideas will shape the reform agenda encapsulated in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Tabitha presented a paper titled „Contradiction in Terms? The UK, socio-economic rights and Article 19 CRPD‟, 26-27 April 2010.

Tabitha was also invited to attend the conference of the European Network on Independent Living in Strasbourg, where she facilitated and acted as rapporteur for a workshop chaired by Horst Frehe, MP, entitled „Independent Living as a Human Right: implementing the UN Convention‟. Participants from across the European Union shared their experiences of progress on implementation in their respective countries. Tabitha contributed a paper on „Implementing the UN Convention in the UK‟, 20-21 September 2010. Alexandra Bohm Alexandra with Sorcha MacLeod presented 'Models of Public Accountability for Private Military and Security Contractors: The March Towards a Non-Statutory Regime in the UK' for workshop on 'The Public-Private Interface in the Management of PMSCs' in Berlin on 20 May 2010 as part of the EU-funded PRIV-WAR project. http://priv-war.eu Nathan Cooper Nathan presented Investing in Human Rights: Exploring the Developmental Potential of Bilateral Investment Treaties‟ at the first SIDNet PGR conference, 1 March 2010. The conference brought together research

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students from several disciplines, whose focus is on development and the developing world. As such it offered a valuable forum for criticism from a wide range of perspectives. Rebecca Sanders Rebecca presented „The Europeanization of mortgage laws: A case study on the interrelationship between law and policy‟, at the Faculty of Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Student Conference, 12 April 2010. Jenny Sloan Jenny presented „Gender Behind Bars - A female perspective on researching male prisoners‟ at the „Masculinity Research Event„ organised by the Gender Research Network and the Post Graduate Gender Group, University of Sheffield, 3 February 2010. PUBLICATIONS Pauline Callow Pauline Callow, 'The Drink-Drive Legislation and the Breath-Alcohol Cases', Criminal Law Review, 2009, 707-718. Rosamunde Van Brakel Rosamunde won a best paper award for her co-authored paper, "Understanding resistance to digital surveillance: Towards a multi-disciplinary, multi-actor framework". The

award, which is granted by the Surveillance Studies Network, is for papers that demonstrate exceptional promise in Surveillance Studies. The paper is accessible on the Surveillance & Society website. Rebecca Sanders Rebecca Sanders ‟The Integration of European Mortgage Law: A Case Study on the Use of Multi-Level Governance Approaches in the Europeanization of Policy.‟, Birmingham Journal for Europe, 1 (4), 2010. http://ejournals.org.uk/BJE/article/2010/4 RESEARCH PROJECTS Nathan Cooper in South Africa In February 2010, Nathan visited South Africa as part of his Ph.D. research. He spent three weeks interviewing township residents in Durban and villagers in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal, asking questions about their experience of access to water. The purpose of these interviews was to place the experience of traditionally excluded people in the centre of his thesis about realising the

right to sufficient water. Insight from these personal stories will add content to his discussion of the right to

water from those most acutely affected by water problems. Nathan also interviewed academics at North-Western University and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. (Pictures: Okhombe resident (Left), water pipe (top), Burlington Towenship (Above)

Views on using personal information in research Ryan Davenport convened an event working with a select group of GCSE school children, parents and invited guests to address issues involving social science research access to personal data. The „Y Touring Theatre Company‟ introduced students to the topic through a performance of their „Breathing Country‟ play. Provocative scenarios were then explored in class sized workshops. The

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day concluded with a „Question Time‟ style panel and audience involving students and guests, including media. This event took place on 18 March 2010. For more information contact Ryan Davenport on r.davenport@sheffield.ac.uk Completions during 2009-2010 Congratulations to James Banks and Mark Van Hoorebeek who have been awarded their Doctorates in Philosophy. Dr James Banks is now a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and Dr Mark Van Hoorebeek is a lecturer at the University of Bradford.

PGR Day 2010 The 2010 PGR day on 19 May 2010 was a great success. Thanks to Jenny Sloan, Anna Hescott and Sara McManus for their efforts in organising the day and to everyone else who helped out by chairing and acting as discussants for papers. (Pictured above: Rosmunde Van Brakel (left), Matthew Bacon (centre) and Jenny Sloan (right) at the PGR Day)

Also thanks for Gordon Bache for creating the PGR day website. You can read all the abstracts from the papers presented on the website http://pgrday.wordpress.com/

Thank you to all who have contributed to this edition of the newsletter. The next Quarterly E-newsletter will be coming out in September 2010. Please send your news articles to Sarah Beedham at s.beedham@sheffield.ac.uk In the meantime keep up-to-date with all the latest news at http://www.law.dept.shef.ac.uk/news/