Policing Human Rights is distinctive and innovative as the first significant law in policing work which takes account of the human rights environment. Dr Martin shows how police officers make sense of their human rights obligations and how the policing environment has been radically altered by these normative requirements. His contribution is not just to criminal justice but to public law much more generally. He has the eye and ear of an outstanding qualitative researcher. His combination of legal and sociological contextual skills place Policing Human Rights in a different league from the work of others. It will become a standard reference on law in policing.
Richard Martin is an Assistant Professor in Law at the London School of Economics. He conducts doctrinal and empirical research on the criminal justice system, human rights and public law. Richard was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and a Fellow at the Department of Law, London School of Economics. He has been a consultant for the Law Commission of England and Wales, Managing Editor of the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog and is currently a Lord Denning Scholar at Lincoln's Inn, London. Richard's publications include commentaries and articles in the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review, Theoretical Criminology and Policing and Society.