Research

The Bayes and the Law Network was initiated by Norman Fenton, Professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and is being developed with Amber Marks, Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence, QMUL. So far more than 80 interested parties from around the world have agreed to participate in a multi-disciplinary network that brings together world-class mathematicians, scientists, psychologists, legal academics and practitioners, police officers, journalists and lay people to collaborate on the issues surrounding the use of probabilistic reasoning in criminal law.

In 2009, Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas gave oral evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee for their inquiry on Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism [pdf] (19th Report, session 2008-09, HL Papers 132-I and 132-II). Professor Mitsilegas is the author of Money Laundering Counter-Measures in the EU: A New Paradigm of Security Governance versus Fundamental Legal Principles (Kluwer Law International/Aspen, The Hague-London-Boston, 2003).

Professor Peter Alldridge has authored several key publications in this area including:

• 'Reforming Bribery: Law Commission Consultation Paper” [2008] Crim. L.R. 671-689
• 'Reforming the Criminal Law of Corruption' (2001) 11 Criminal Law Forum 287
• P Alldridge and A Mumford, 'Tax Evasion and the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002' (2005) 25 Legal Studies 353
• P Alldridge, 'Introduction' in Booth (ed), Anti-Money Laundering Guide (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2005)
• P Alldridge, Money Laundering Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003)

• In 2009,  Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas gave oral evidence to the House of Lords EU Committee for their inquiry on Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism [pdf] (19th Report, session 2008-09, HL Papers 132-I and 132-II).

• Amber Marks, Ben Bowling and Cian Murphy, (2008). Crime Control Technologies: Towards an Analytical Framework and Research Agenda. Regulating Technologies, ed. R. Brownsword, K. Yeung. Oxford: Hart. 
• Professor David Ormerod and M O’Floinn, Social networking material as criminal evidence [2012] Crim. L.R. 486-512 David Ormerod and M O’Floinn Social networking sites, RIPA and criminal investigations [2011] Crim. L.R. 766-789 
• Amber Marks, Don't Kill Me: Can we trust new weapons that are supposed to be non-lethal? Prospect, 4 July 2009. 

Professor Richard Ashcroft

• David Ormerod, A Waterman QC and Rudi Fortson QC Prosecution appeals - too much of a good thing? [2010] Crim. L.R. 169-194
• Professor Richard Nobles and Professor David Schiff 'After Ten Years: An Investment in Justice?' in M. Naughton (ed) The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

David Ormerod QC is the editor and author of several key practitioner texts including:

• Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 (General Editor with the Rt Hon Lord Justice Hooper)
• Halsbury’s Laws of England (Editor for Volumes on Criminal Evidence and Procedure) (2010)
• Fraud: Criminal law and Procedure (OUP) with Clare Montgomery QC
• Smith’s Law of Theft (9th edn 2007) with David Williams QC

Professor David Ormerod QC, Professor William Wilson and Professor Janet Dine are all authors of key textbooks on criminal law:

• Criminal Law: Doctrine and Theory, (4th edn, Longmans, 2011)
• Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (6th edn 2010) co author J Gobert
• Smith and Hogan Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (10th edn 2009)
• Smith and Hogan on Criminal Law (13th edn 2011)

Professor William Wilson has written widely on Criminal Theory, specialising particularly in homicide and criminal defences. He is the author of Central Issues in Criminal Theory (2002). Articles and chapters include Participating in Crime: Some Thoughts on the Retribution/Prevention Dichotomy in Preparation for Crime and How to Deal with It in Participation in Crime: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives Edited by Alan Reed, and Michael Bohlander, (2013) ‘Murder by Omission: Some Observations on a Mismatch between the General and Special Parts’ (2010) New Crim LR 1-22 Murder and the Structure of Homicide in AJ Ashworth and B Mitchell Rethinking English Homicide Law, OUP, 2000 21-54 The Structure of Criminal Defences (2005) Crim LR 108-121 Violence, Sleepwalking and the Criminal Law (2005) Crim LR 601-23 Impaired Voluntariness: The Variable Standards, (2004) Buffalo Crim LR The Filtering Role of Crisis in the Constitution of Criminal Excuses Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (July 2004) at pp.387-416.

Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas is a member of the Management Committee of the European Criminal Law Academic Network (ECLAN), a Europe-wide network which brings together academic experts from the EU 27 and beyond. He was General Rapporteur to the 2012 Congress of the International Federation for European Law (FIDE), which will be held in Tallinn (stream on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice). He is a member of the Commission's Expert Panel on EU Criminal Policy. He is acting as expert adviser to the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). Professor Mitsilegas was Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords European Union Committee for their inquiry on the European Borders Agency (FRONTEX report [pdf]) and was invited to submit evidence on the Lisbon Treaty to the House of Lords Committees on the Constitution European Union (Amendment) Bill and the Lisbon Treaty: Implications for the UK Constitution [pdf] (6th Report, session 2007-08, HL Paper 84) and the European Union (The Treaty of Lisbon: An Impact Assessment [pdf], 10th Report, session 2007-08, HL Papers 62-I and 62-II).

Professor Mitsilegas provides regular advice to the UK Government and the Judiciary of England and Wales. He is actively engaged with the legal profession as regards the impact of European Union law on the domestic legal system. He is the first contributor of a specific chapter on the relationship between EU law and domestic criminal law in Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. He is member of a team drafting case commentaries for the Criminal Law Review. He is also Consultant Editor to EU Law in Criminal Practice (OUP, 2013).

• EU Criminal Law, (Hart Publishing, Oxford)
• The EU and Internal Security (co-authored with J Monar and W Rees) (Palgrave/Macmillan 2003)

• Rudi Fortson QC is the author 'Misuse of Drugs Offences, Confiscation and Money Laundering' (Sweet & Maxwell, 6th ed., December 2011).
• Amber Marks is researching drug testing technology.
• see also Health and Criminal Law - Professor Richard Ashcroft
• Read Amber Marks' overview of the legal landscape for cannabis social clubs in Spain [PDF 144KB]

Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor Fitzmaurice and Dr Phoebe Okowa have published widely in the field of environmental law.

Professor Valsamis Mitseligas is the Queen Mary Principal Investigator on a multinational interdisciplinary research project on EU Action to Fight Environmental Crime (EFFACE) funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for Research. This 40-month project (2012-2016) aims to assess the impact of environmental crime and develop effective and feasible policy options for combating it at EU level.

• Professor Peter Alldridge and Professor David Ormerod QC have published widely in this field.
• Amber Marks is actively engaged in researching the relevance and reliability of several areas of forensic science.
• Amber Marks, Peter Alldridge and Jenny Mcewan co-chaired a CJC conference on ‘The Future of Expert Evidence’ in 2011.

• Extraterritorial Immigration Control: Legal Challenges, Valsamis Mitsilegas and Bernard Ryan (eds.) Nijhoff, 2010. Proceedings of a Modern Law Review seminar held at Queen Mary in June 2008
• Elspeth Guild, Security and Migration in the 21st Century Polity (Cambridge, 2009)
• Elspeth Guild,  The Legal Elements of European Identity: EU Citizenship and Migration Law, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2004.
• E Guild & S Mantu (eds) Ashgate, Aldershot, 2011
• E.Guild, When even Machiavelli’s Prince needs a Visa – Migration, Euro-Mediterranean Relations and Intercultural Dialogue’ European Foreign Affairs Review (2010) 15 : 367 – 384.
• E. Guild ‘Refugee Protection, Counter-Terrorism, and Exclusion in the European Union’ E Guild and Madeline Garlick Refugee Survey Quarterly (2010) 29(4): 63-82
• E.Guild, ‘The Uses and Abuses of Counter-terrorism Policies in Europe: the case of the lists’ JCMS 2008 Vol 46 No 1 pp 173 – 193
• E.Guild, ‘The Europeanisation of Europe's Asylum Policy’  Int J Refugee Law 2006 18: 630-651

Professor Phoebe Okowa.

Professor Kate Malleson recently completed a joint three-year AHRC funded project on the selection of judges to the International Courts. The findings were published by OUP in 2010 in a book entitled Selecting International Judges: Principle, Process and Politics.

The Lay Magistracy

Kate Leader is co-investigator on a Society of Legal Scholars’ funded pilot project investigating lawyers’ perceptions of the lay magistracy.

Richard Richard Nobles and Professor David Schiff have authored key publications in this field including:

• Richard Nobles and David Schiff, ‘Public Confidence in Criminal Justice: The Lessons from Miscarriages of Justice’ 48 The Howard Journal (Dec 2009) 461;
• Richard Nobles and David Schiff, Understanding Miscarriages of Justice: Law, the Media, and the Inevitability of Crisis (OUP, Oxford, 2000)

• (Elspeth Guild with F Geyer) Security versus Justice? Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union (Elspeth Guild) with F Geyer) Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008
• Amber Marks, Drug detection dogs and the growth of olfactory surveillance: Beyond the rule of law? Surveillance and Society, 4, 257-271.
• Amber Marks, Don't Kill Me: Can we trust new weapons that are supposed to be non-lethal? Prospect, 4 July 2009.
• Policing, Surveillance and Security: Amber Marks, Ben Bowling and Cian Murphy, (2008). Crime Control Technologies: Towards an Analytical Framework and Research Agenda. Regulating Technologies, ed. R. Brownsword, K.Yeung. Oxford: Hart.

• Work on the fourth and fifth volumes of Professor Sean McConville's Penal History series is now nearing completion, with publication set for 2012/2013. These books deal with Irish political prisoners from 1920 to 2000. Research has been intensive across the three principal jurisdictions - Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Britain. This research attracted substantial external international funding. Volume 3 of the History of Imprisonment was published in 2003 by Routledge (Irish Political Prisoners 1848–1922: Theatres of War). Previous books in the series have dealt with eighteenth and nineteenth century penal policy and prison administration (A History of English Prison Administration (1981), and English Local Prisons 1860-1900 (1995)).
• Dr Jeffrey Kennedy has researched and published on a number of issues related to criminal sentencing.