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Professor Ian Cram

Deputy Head of School and Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law

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I am currently working in the area of comparative constitutional responses to extreme speech, and counter- terrorism laws.

My published work includes three monographs, the latest 'Terror and the War on Dissent - Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda' was published by Springer (2009) as well as numerous articles in leading international law/politics journals.

I acted as General Editor for the new edition of Borrie & Lowe The Law of Contempt that was published in 2010.

Scholarly and Research Interests

My main research interests are in the fields of public law and comparative constitutional Law, with special reference to freedom of expression.

Teaching

I teach constitutional law, media law, human rights and administrative law.

PhD Supervision

I would be happy to consider potential PhD students in the fields of:

public law
comparative constitutional law
human rights.

Key Publications

Books

Cram, I. (2009) Terror and the War on Dissent - Freedom of Expression in the Age of Al-Qaeda, Springer.

Cram, I. (2006) Contested Words - Legal restrictions on freedom of expression in liberal democracies, Ashgate.

Journal Articles

Cram, I. (2010) Beyond Lockean Majoritarianism?; Emergency, Institutional failure and the UK Constitution 10 HRLRev, pp. 461-485

Cram, I. (2009) Resort to foreign constitutional norms in domestic human rights jurisprudence with reference to terrorism cases, Cambridge Law Journal (CLJ), 68(1), pp.118-141.

Cram, I. (2008) Constitutional responses to extremist political associations - ETA, Batasuna and democratic norms, Legal Studies, 28, pp.68-95.

Chapter in Book

Cram, I (2009) 'The Danish Cartoons, Offensive Expression, and Democratic Legitimacy'. In: Hare, I. and Weinstein, J. (eds.) Extreme Speech and Democracy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp.311-330.

Full list of my publications.

Media Contact Areas

I am happy to talk to the media about legal controversies in free speech and human rights more generally.