Richard Edwards
BA LLB (Soton) BCL MA (Oxon) FRSA
Senior Lecturer
Amory B103K
Overview
Richard read history at the University of Southampton, where he took a special interest in British political history and the Crusades. He retains an on-going interest in British political history, particularly the life and career of Sir Winston Churchill. Thereafter, Richard took a further degree in Law at Southampton before attending Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he read for the BCL.
Richard has a long-standing research interest in human rights law, constitutional law and reform, devolution, free speech and aspects of criminal justice. Richard's work has been referred to by the Law Lords, the High Court of Northern Ireland, the House of Lords and the Northern Ireland Law Commission.
Richard was Head of School (2016-2019) and before that Deputy Head (2015 -2016). During Richard's successful period as Head of School the Law School returned to the Penryn campus offering innovative and exciting joint programmes with colleagues in Exeter Business School. At the same time the Law School developed joint programmes with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Previously, he was an Associate Head of Department at UWE, Bristol (2011-2014).
Richard served on the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars for a number of years (2002 - 2016). In 2012 Richard became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
For Richard's research outputs please visit:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0234-8268Research
Constitutional law; Civil liberties; Domestic Human Rights law; Public Law; Comparative Public Law; Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Police Powers; Public Protest.
For research outputs please visit:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0234-8268Publications
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2023
- Edwards R. (2023) Residual liberty, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, volume 73, no. 4, DOI:10.53386/nilq.v73i4.985. [PDF]
2022
- Edwards RA. (2022) Justice for the blackest malefactors? Determinate prison sentences, early release, and the ECHR, Legal Studies, volume 42, no. 4, pages 600-619, DOI:10.1017/lst.2022.1. [PDF]
2020
- Gates S. (2020) Why (Almost) Everything that Happened was Constitutional: Towards a New Paradigm for Constitutional Theory and History with Case Studies on the English Royal Minorities.
- Edwards RA. (2020) Police Powers and Article 5 ECHR: Time for a New Approach to the Interpretation of the Right to Liberty, Liverpool Law Review, volume 41, no. 3, pages 331-356, DOI:10.1007/s10991-020-09255-y. [PDF]
2018
- Edwards RA. (2018) Reading down legislation under the Human Rights Act, Legal Studies, volume 20, no. 3, pages 353-371, DOI:10.1111/j.1748-121x.2000.tb00148.x. [PDF]
2017
- Woolman S, Pieterse M, Pantazis A, Blake RC, Jagwanth S, Klaaren J, de Waal J, Edwards RA. (2017) Cases and Comments, South African Journal on Human Rights, volume 15, no. 2, pages 166-240, DOI:10.1080/02587203.1999.11835007. [PDF]
2016
- Fenwick H, Edwards R. (2016) Fenwick on Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Routledge-Cavendish, DOI:10.4324/9781315734767. [PDF]
2012
- Edwards RA. (2012) BONHAM'S CASE: THE GHOST IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL MACHINE, The Denning Law Journal, volume 11, no. 1, pages 63-90, DOI:10.5750/dlj.v11i1.258. [PDF]
2010
- Cape E, Edwards RA. (2010) POLICE BAIL WITHOUT CHARGE: THE HUMAN RIGHTS IMPLICATIONS, The Cambridge Law Journal, volume 69, no. 3, pages 529-560, DOI:10.1017/s0008197310000796. [PDF]
2008
- Edwards RA. (2008) Stop and Search, Terrorism and the Human Rights Deficit, Common Law World Review, volume 37, no. 3, pages 211-256, DOI:10.1350/clwr.2008.37.3.0172. [PDF]
- Edwards RA. (2008) Judicial Deference under the Human Rights Act, The Modern Law Review, volume 65, no. 6, pages 859-882, DOI:10.1111/1468-2230.00413. [PDF]