Education
BA., MA., Ph.D., LLM
Dean and Professor of Law University of Buckingham
Affiliations
Member of the Bar Human Rights Group
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Professor Susan Edwards is a member of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI) and has provided expert reports on the effects of domestic violence, in ancillary relief matters and in criminal matters where the victim is a reluctant witness and/or refuses to give evidence.
She is a member of the Editorial Boards of Victimology: An International Journal, Journal of Criminal Law, Crime Prevention and Community Safety : An International Journal
Achievements
- Editor of the Denning Law Journal.
- Adviser on Domestic Violence for the Council of Europe (2003).
- Adviser, consultant and trainer for the Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (2003).
- Consultant on Expert Witnesses for the Crown Prosecution Service (2002).
- Project Developer for the Home Office as part of their Violence Against Women Initiative 2000. www.homeoffice.gov uk - external link).
- Director of Research for the Pornography and Violence Research Trust (1992-2002).
- Management Committee member of CAST (an organisation for education and training of ex-offenders, 1992-98).
- conducted research for Hammersmith and Fulham Council (1997 and 2002). Barnardos (1998).
- Visiting Fellow Law School Australian National University (2000).
- Consultant to the Metropolitan Police on Domestic Violence (1991-93, 1984).
- Received research grants from Nuffield -1987 / Police Foundation - 1988 / Home Office Police Research Awards Scheme - 1989 / Safer Cities Home Office - 1991 / Pornography and Violence Research Trust - 1992-2002.
Publications
She has four sole-authored books includingSex and Gender in the Legal Process (1996), one edited collection and one co-authored textbook. .
"Justice Devlin's legacy: Duffy - a battered woman 'caught' in time", Criminal Law Review 2009.12, 851-869.
- "Child protection: trapped in the middle of the edge", Family Law 39 (March 2009), 220-225.
- "The self-incrimination privilege in care proceedings and the criminal trial and 'shall not be admissible in evidence' ", Journal of Criminal Law (2009) 73 JCL 48-68.
- Family law (with Mary Welstead), Oxford University Press Core Texts Series, 2nd ed. 2008.
- "Descent into murder - provocation's stricture - the prognosis for women who kill men who abuse them", Journal of Criminal Law 71.4 (August 2007), 342-361.
- "Imagining Islam … of meaning and metaphor symbolising the jilbab - R (Begum) v Headteacher and Governors of Denbigh High School", Child & Family Law Quarterly 19.2 (June 2007), 247-268.
- "Disclosure: sacrificing the privilege of self-incrimination for the greater good of child protection?", Family Law 37 (2007), 510-516.
- Sealing one’s own fate - disclosure of documents in care proceedings - on the trail to the abrogation of a fair trial. Child and Family Law Quarterly 16.2, April 2005.
- "Kicked, beaten, jumped on until they are crushed," all under man's wing and protection: the Victorian dilemma with domestic violence. Criminal Conversations, ed. J. Rowbotham & K. Stevenson (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005), pp.247-266.
- Division of assets and fairness - "Brick Lane" - gender, culture and ancillary relief on divorce. Family Law , November 2004, pp. 809 -814.
- Abolishing provocation and reframing self-defence - the Law Commission’s options for reform . The Criminal Law Review, March 2004, pp. 181-197 .
- Injustice that puts a low price on a woman's life. The Times , Tuesday 2nd September 2003.
- Perjury and perverting the course of justice considered. The Criminal Law Review, August 2003, pp. 525-540
- Absolution - the power of parole. The Times , Tuesday 24th June 2003.
- Discourses of denial and moral panics: the pornographisation of the child in art, the written word, film and photograph. Behaving Badly. Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels , ed. J. Rowbotham & K. Stevenson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 177-191.
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