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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 lecture in law at Middlesex University and a qualified non-practising solicitor-advocate who before joining Middlesex was a judicial review lawyer at Public Interest Lawyers. Her specialism includes judicial review, the Human Rights Act 1998, the legacy of the Iraq litigation, and the use of data in political digital campaigns. She has held visiting positions at the University of Birmingham (2019), Queen’s University Belfast (2018), Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto (2018) and Centre for Human Rights in Practice, University of Warwick (2016-2017).

        Talks/Presentations

        • Special Workshop co-convener, IVR World Conference, University of Lucerne, ‘Get out of my mind! Freedom of Thought in Networked Space’, July 2019
        • Contemporary Issues and Challenges Related to Fundamental Rights Protection, IACL roundtable at Benjamin N. Cardoza Law School, ‘What Populist Challenges to the UK Human Rights Might Look Like’, March 2019
        • ‘The International Criminal Court’s examination of UK conduct in Iraq’ University of Law, November 2018
        • Accountability Seminar Series, ‘State(s) of accountability in the UK: ‘Corporate Memory Loss’, Obfuscation and Obstruction’, University of Newcastle, November 2018
        • Technology and Human Rights Symposium ‘Is the electoral law’s understanding of influence for the purpose of democratic autonomy out-of-date?’ Goldsmiths University of London, November 2018
        • Amsterdam Privacy Conference 2018, University of Amsterdam, ‘Technology and free thinking: is the law failing to think about our thoughts?’ October 2018
        • 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
        • 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, The Guardian

        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

        Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

        Teaching: English Legal System (Module Leader, LLB year 1); Employment Law (Module Leader, LLB and BA Law year 3); and, Public Law (LLB, year 1)

        External teaching: English Criminal Law as a Visiting Lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille

        Follow @bethanyshiner14

         

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Public law and Human Rights with a specific interest in the increasing challenge in holding the state to account particularly in the military realm; the Human Rights Act and the impact of big data and algorithms on democratic processes.

        Articles

        ‘Big data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods’ [2019] 2 Public Law 361-378

        Blog posts

        ‘Self-regulation is not enough: The law on micro-targeted online political campaigns and big data needs reform’, Democratic Audit, 4 Feb 2019 http://www.democraticaudit.com/2019/02/04/self-regulation-is-not-enough-the-law-on-micro-targeted-online-political-campaigns-and-big-data-needs-reform/

        ‘Voting away our rights’ with Dr Joelle Grogan, Lawyers for a People’s Vote, 13 December 2018 https://www.lawyersforapeoplesvote.com/blog/voting-away-our-rights?fbclid=IwAR1Eqr3nBUL9R-gPBdCslImy-F_DGD8BxmeWuePVlmr3wVqlI-xwJVjc9KA

        ‘Integrity instead of deceit: how to improve the delivery and content of political campaigns’, LSE Brexit Blog, 18 July 2018 http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/07/18/the-delivery-and-content-of-political-campaign-material/

        ‘How Does the Data Protection Act 2018 Empower the Information Commissioner to Tackle the Misuse of Personal Data in Political Campaigns?’ UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 20 July 2018 https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2018/07/20/bethany-shiner-how-does-the-data-protection-act-2018-empower-the-information-commissioner-to-tackle-the-misuse-of-personal-data-in-political-campaigns/

        ‘Just the Politics of Persuasion: Are Gaps in Regulation Affecting Political Campaigning Methods?’, UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 1 Match 2018 https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2018/03/01/bethany-shiner-just-the-politics-of-persuasion-are-gaps-in-regulation-affecting-political-campaigning-methods/

         

        Publication Feed

        Big data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods and the need for fundamental reform

        Shiner, Bethany (2019) Big data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods and the need for fundamental reform. Public Law, 2019 (2). pp. 362-379. ISSN 0033-3565

      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        Oral expert evidence, APPG on Electoral Campaigning Transparency, 2 July 2019 https://fairvote.uk/appg-welcomes-key-civil-society-organisations-and-academics-at-third-session/

        ‘The legal landscape: Micro-targeted politics and big data’ in Electoral Reform Society Report ‘Reining in the Political ‘Wild West’: Campaign Rules for the 21st Century’, 4 Feb 2019 https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Reining-in-the-Political-Wild-West-Campaign-Rules-for-the-21st-Century.pdf cited in the Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Committee’s Disinformation and ‘fake news’ final report

        Published written evidence to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s Disinformation and ‘fake news’ inquiry, 31 October 2018 http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/disinformation-and-fake-news/written/92108.html

        Consultation response to the Ministry of Defence’s Better Combat Compensation, February 2017 http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/schools/law/main/milc/Combat-Immunity-Response.pdf which was cited in Parliamentary Briefing Paper, ‘The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme’, 23 March 2017

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