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      Miss Bethany Shiner

      ROLE: Lecturer in Law
      SCHOOL: Law
      DEPARTMENT: Law
      EMAIL: B.Shiner@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Bethany is a qualified non-practising solicitor-advocate who before joining Middlesex full-time was a judicial review lawyer at Public Interest Lawyers. 

        From September 2016 - May 2017 Bethany was a visiting fellow and researcher at the University of Warwick Centre for Human Rights in Practice. The research was part of a broader right to truth project and her specific research question was whether public inquiries are effective truth-seeking mechanisms. This question was examined with reference to the numerous Iraq-related inquiries.

        Talks/Presentations

        • Hart Workshop 2018: Building a 21st century Bill of Rights, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, ‘Entrenching the Universality of Rights in a British Bill of Rights’, June 2018
        • 2018 Annual Meeting on Law and Society, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada, ‘Technology and free thinking: is the law failing to think about our thoughts?’ June 2018
        • Winchester Conference on Trust, Risk, Information and the Law, University of Winchester, ‘Big data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods’, April 2018
        • Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, ‘In an age of big data and algorithms do political campaigns need to be better regulated?’ September 2017
        • Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester, ‘Abuse of Human Rights in Conflict Situations’, May 2017
        • Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s Centre for War and Peace studies annual conference- Representing Peace and Conflict, ‘The Commission by the UK of War Crimes in SE Iraq, 2003 – 2008: The psychological consequences for torture victims and the struggle for truth, accountability and reparation’, June 2016;
        • Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers International Women’s conference, ‘Women and Work: R (Reilly & Wilson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2013] EWCA Civ 66’, November 2015;
        • Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form college, Model UN opening speech, ‘Global conflict, Peace and the UN’, March 2015;
        • Kent Critical Law Society conference, ‘The Poundland case; Challenging ‘Work for your benefits‘ schemes’, March 2014; and,
        • United Nations, New York, ‘Nuclear Weapons in the UK’, October 2001
        • Newspaper and TV appearances: The Independent’s Top 100 people 2010, Daily Politics, Sky TV, BBC, ITV, Al-Jazeera

        Other 

        'Combat Immunity and Enhanced Compensation Consultation Response' Shiner, B, Mallory, C & Musa, S. 2017

        Qualifications

        BA Art and Psychology (1st), University of Liverpool (Liverpool Hope University)

        MA Art and Politics, Goldsmiths, University London

        Graduate Diploma in Law

        Legal Practice Course

        Qualified as a solicitor-advocate in 2015

         

         


        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

         

        Bethany is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

        She teaches

        1. English Legal System (Module Leader)
        2. Employment Law (Module Leader)
        3. Public Law

        She has externally taught English Criminal Law as a Visiting Lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille.

         

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Public law and Human Rights

        - the increasing challenge in holding the state to account particularly in the military realm

        - the legacy of the Iraq litigation

        - whether public inquiries are human rights compliant truth-seeking mechanisms

        - the impact of big data and algorithms on democratic processes

         

      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Bethany's work has been cited in Parliamentary Briefing Papers (Armed Forces Compensation Scheme, March 2017)

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