Paul Raffield

TITLE

Associate Professor, Chair of Undergraduate Studies

CONTACT

Law
Room S1.28
School of Law
The University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL

Tel: +44(0)24 7652 4939
Fax: +44(0)24 7652 4105
Email: P.Raffield@warwick.ac.uk

RESEARCH PROFILE

Research interests include legal history, law and literature and critical legal studies. Areas of particular interest include the influence of the early modern legal profession on the development and formulation of the English constitution, and the historical and semiotic status of the legal community as a representation of constitutionalism. Specific research projects include historical analyses of theatre and law, and the embodiment in drama of juristic constructs, such as divine law, natural law, and the artificial reason of common law. Co-organiser of a major international conference on Shakespeare and the Law, hosted by The University of Warwick in 2007.

Currently writing his next book, entitled 'Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late-Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law', to be published in 2011 by Hart Publishing. Founding co-editor of 'Law and Humanities' [www.hartjournals.co.uk/lh]: submissions are welcomed from scholars in the legal academy and any of the humanities' disciplines.

See also: http://warwick.academia.edu/PaulRaffield

BACKGROUND

LLB (Cardiff), PhD (London).

Tutor and Guest Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Law and Literature, Legal History - Birkbeck College, University of London.

City Solicitors' Educational Trust Lecturer in Civil Law (Tort), The University of Warwick, 2004-07.

Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence, 2008.

National Teaching Fellow, The Higher Education Academy, 2009.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2009.

Member of Associazione Italiana di Diritto e Letteratura [Italian Cultural Association for the Study of Law and Literature].

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Shakespeares Imaginary Constitution, AHRC, Project Start Date: 11/01/2010 Project End Date: 10/04/2010

Further Research Projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Raffield P. (2009) ''The Comedy of Errors' and the Meaning of Contract' Law and Humanities 3 (2), 207 - 229 (1752-1483) [article]
Raffield P. (2009) ''Sunday's Child': Drama, Ensemble and the Community of Law' Law and Humanities 3 (2), 231 - 235 (1752-1483) [article]
Raffield P. (2008) '"Terras Astraea reliquit": Titus Andronicus and the Loss of Justice' in Shakespeare and the Law, 203 - 220, Editors: Paul Raffield and Gary Watt (978-1-84113-825-1), Oxford: Hart Publishing
Raffield P. (2008) 'Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Justice, Fairness and the Dramatic Representation of Law' in Practising Equity, Addressing Law: Equity in Law and Literature, 207 - 222, Editors: Daniela Carpi, Heidelberg: Winter
Raffield P. (2005) 'A Discredited Priesthood: the Failings of Common Lawyers and their representation in 17th Century Satirical Drama' Law And Literature 17 (3), 365 - 395 (1535-685X)

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