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Dr James Gray

Associate Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

James graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy from Liverpool University in 1984 and a Diploma in Law and LLB (Hons) from Kent University in 1996. After studying the Bar Vocational Course, James qualified as a barrister in 1997 and undertook a civil pupillage at 4 Brick Court in the Temple. He joined the Law School from the Inland Revenue Tax Law Rewrite Project in 1999

 

 

Campus Address

City Campus East - 306



Key Publications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • J G Ballard and the phenomenology of the absence of law, Gray, J. 2019, In: Law and Humanities
  • Considering conceptions and re-conceptions of the self through law and literature: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Gray, J. 30 May 2015, Law and Society Conference
  • The Good Life for Lawyers? Ethics, legal education and values, Gray, J. 2013, The Legal Profession: Education and Ethics in Practice, Athens, ATINER
  • Thawing out the Law School: why we need legal education theory, Gray, J. 25 Sep 2012, In: Alternative Law Journal
  • Edith Wharton and the Emergence of American Legal Realism, Gray, J. 2011, Legal Theory, Practice and Education, Athens, The Law Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.)
  • Some Reflections on Liberty : Bruce Winick’s ‘Civil Commitment: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model’, Gray, J. Jun 2010, In: Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
  • Hellenism and hebraism: legal traditions and the work of Cynthia Ozick, Gray, J. 2008, Crossing Borders : law, language, and literature, Wolf Legal Publishers
  • The relationship between academic legal education and the legal profession: the review of legal education in England and Wales and the teaching hospital model, Gray, J., Woodley, M. 2005, In: European Journal of Legal Education

PGR Supervision

  • Bill Holohan A Study of the attitude towards and the knowledge of practising solicitors in Ireland towards and of mediation and the Mediation Act 2017. – Picking "the mediation peach” Start Date: 15/11/2023
  • Niamh Lenihan 'Towards a Definition of Online Harm in an Era of Emerging Digital Technology Legislation' Start Date: 27/04/2023

Qualifications

  • Law LLB (Hons) June 30 1996
  • CELTA June 30 1991
  • Philosophy BA (Hons) June 30 1987

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