Academic

By day, I am a senior lecturer in law at Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland and more recently Head of Department for Economics and Law.

My academic research and teaching mainly focuses on criminal law and evidence, miscarriages of justice, constitutional law and legal philosophy. In more recent years, I my interests have evolved into media law and I have a number of years of experience teaching and marking National Council for the Training of Journalists exams in Essential Media Law and Court Reporting.

I am particularly interested in the interaction between law and politics and policy-making, and have given written and oral evidence in the Scottish Parliament on over fourteen occasions over the last decade. I was also a trustee of ScottishPEN, and was active in the organisation’s efforts to reform defamation law in Scotland better to protect free expression in this country.

I am also interested in broadcasting and contribute regularly to television and radio on the latest legal developments, promoting a greater public understanding of law.