Professor Peter Vincent-Jones
Professor of Law
I have teaching and research interests in the areas of public law, socio-legal studies, and contract.
I have published extensively on public contracts, housing, and public management issues from a socio-legal perspective in a wide range of journals.
Over the past twenty years I have developed particular expertise in the privatisation and contractualisation of public services in the UK and Europe.
I am currently engaged in a five year research project comparing patterns of health care reform in Britain, France, and Hungary, as part of a larger integrated project under the 6th Framework Programme in Research and Development, 'Reflexive Governance in the Public Interest', involving 28 partner institutions across Europe.
Scholarly and Research Interests
My research interests are in the following areas:
- Socio-legal studies.
- Governance and regulation, multi-level governance, human services regulation.
- Public sector contracting. Restructuring of local government, health and human services sectors. Public and private aspects of contract. Central-local government relations.
- Contracting in business practice.
- Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution in business disputes. Comparative European business disputing.
- Housing law and policy. Socio-legal analysis of Landlord and Tenant law. Squatting.
Teaching
I teach on the following modules:
- Public Law
- Constitutional Law
- Advanced Legal Research and Law Reform
- Jurisprudence
PhD Supervision
PhD supervisor: 'Transaction Management in the NHS: The Ordering of Exchange Relations in Trent Regional Health Authority', A. W. Harries.
PhD external examiner: 'Legal and Economic Aspects of Contract in the NHS Internal Market', P. W. Allen, University of London.
PhD external examiner: 'The Role of Law in Urban Re-generation', O. C. Ransley, University of Manchester.
PHD external examiner: 'Regulating Contracts in the Independent Television Production Industry', Ana Lourenco, University of Cambridge.
Key Publications
Book
Vincent-Jones, P. (2006) The New Public Contracting: Regulation, Responsiveness, Relationality, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
Vincent-Jones, P., Hughes, D. and Mullen, C. (2009) New Labour's PPI Reforms: Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare Governance? Modern Law Review, 72, pp.247-271.
Vincent-Jones, P. and Hughes, D. (2008) Schisms in the Church: NHS Systems and Institutional Divergence in England and Wales, Journal of Health and Social Behaviour, 48, pp.400-416.
Vincent-Jones, P. (2007) The New Public Contracting: Public Versus Private Ordering? Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 14, pp.259-278.
Vincent-Jones, P. (2005) Citizen Redress in Public Contracting for Human Services, Modern Law Review, 68, pp.887-924.
Contact Details
- Room: 1.04, The Liberty Building
- Tel: 0113 343 7112
- Email: P.Vincent-Jones@leeds.ac.uk