Emeritus
His writing and teaching engages with law, history, politics and society. He has written and taught on legal history, the legal profession, legal education, corporate law, international human rights (with particular reference to the national and transnational struggle to prosecute Augusto Pinochet, and the "human rights turn" in Post-Pinochet Chile) and European anti-discrimination law.
He has undertaken research for governments, inter-governmental organisations and NGO’s, most recently the European Court of Justice (2011 and 2013), the European Court of Human Rights (2011 and 2013) and the European Union Parliament Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee (2012 and 2013).
He has authored, co-authored and edited 20 books, and has written over 90 articles and book chapters. He has also published articles in The Times, Guardian, Santiago Times (Chile), Open Democracy and El Mostrador and contributed to TV (such as ITN and CNN) and radio (e.g., BBC Radio 4 and Vienna Public Radio).
Professor Sugarman is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He has been a Visiting Professor in Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain, and the USA, and he has delivered over 300 invited lectures in more than 20 countries.
EDUCATION
Having gained an undergraduate law degree (LLB) at Hull University, he completed graduate work in law at Cambridge University as a William Senior Scholar in Comparative Law (LLM and Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies), and Harvard Law School (LLM), where he was awarded a doctorate (SJD).
SCHOLARSHIP
His writing and teaching engages with law, history, politics and society. He has written and taught on legal history, the legal profession, legal education, corporate law, international human rights (with particular reference to the national and transnational struggle to prosecute Augusto Pinochet, and the "human rights turn" in Post-Pinochet Chile) and European anti-discrimination law.
He has undertaken research for governments, inter-governmental organisations and NGO’s, most recently the European Court of Justice (2011 and 2013), the European Court of Human Rights (2011 and 2013) and the European Union Parliament Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee (2012 and 2013).
He has authored, co-authored and edited 20 books, and has written over 90 articles and book chapters. He has contributed to the:
· New Oxford Companion to Law,
· Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History,
· Oxford Reader's Companion to Charles Dickens,
· Blackwell Companion to the Enlightenment.
He has also published articles in a broad range of outlets including:
· The Times,
· The Guardian,
· The Santiago Times (Chile),
· Open Democracy,
· The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA),
· Amnesty International (Chile) and
· El Mostrador (Chile).
His work has been translated into Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
His latest books are:
Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman (eds.). Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources. A special issue of the Journal of Law and Society vol. 42, Issue 1, 2015 pp. 172. ISBN: 978-1-1190-5216-6
Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman (eds.). Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. pp. 172. Journal of Law and Society Special Issue Book Series. ISBN: 978-1-119-05216-6
Sylvia Walby, David Sugarman et al, Stopping Rape. Towards A Comprehensive Policy. Bristol: Policy Press, 2015. ISBN: 9781447322092
His latest essays and articles are:
David Sugarman, “Theory and practice in law and history: a prologue to the study of the relationship between law and economy from a socio-historical perspective.” In Legal Theory and Legal History. Maksymilian Del Mar and Michael Lobban (eds.,). (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014) 443-479.
Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman, “Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources.” In Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources (March 2015) above, 1-6.
David Sugarman, “From Legal Biography to Legal Life-Writing: Broadening Conceptions of Legal History and Socio-Legal Scholarship.” In Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources (March 2015) above, 7-33.
David Sugarman, "Foreword", W. Wesley Pue, Lawyers' Empire. Legal Professions and Cultural Authority, 1780-1950. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2016) pp. ix-xii.
ON-LINE LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
The ‘Pinochet Effect’– the Impact of Transnational Legal Action.
A public lecture to mark the 15th anniversary of General Pinochet’s arrest in London, and its contemporary relevance. delivered at the State Parliament of Berlin on 30 September 2013. Prof. Sugarman shared the platform with Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who reqested Pinochet’s extradition to Spain, and Juan Garcés, the lawyer who sought Pinochet’s arrest on behalf of Pinochet’s victims. The event was broadcast on German radio (Deutsche welle). A short film, drawing on the event, can be viewed on-line and down-loaded at:
Creating Quotas to Improve the Gender Balance among Directors of Companies.
A presentation on the EU’s proposal to create quotas to improve the gender balance among directors of companies delivered at the Conference, “Getting Women on Board”, the European Parliament, Brussels, 7 March 2013. Other participants included Commissioners, MEPs, and government and trade union representatives. The conference can be viewed on-line and downloaded from:
http://greenmediabox.eu/archive/2013/03/07/get-women-on-board/
Hart Interviewed: H.L.A. Hart in Conversation with David Sugarman.
H.L.A. Hart (1907–1992) is frequently regarded as the twentieth century’s foremost legal philosopher, at least within the English-speaking world. Prof. Sugarman’s lengthy interview with Hart reviews Hart’s life, work and significance. The interview was digitalized by Oxford University Press, who posted it on the Web, along with Prof. Sugarman’s reflections on the interview. The interview is broken down into nine parts, available for streaming and download:
http://www.oup.co.uk/academic/law/hart/
http://blog.oup.com/2012/12/h-l-a-hart-in-conversation-with-david-sugarman/
The interview is also accessible via the YouTube playlist.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3MAPgqN8JWiLdUqgmrQMzhao6b-RrS49
The history of Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century England.
A guest contributor to “Secrets from the Clink”, a programme on the history of crime and punishment, broadcast on Independent Television (ITV1) on 6 August 2014 at 9pm:
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/secrets-from-the-clink/series-1/episode-1
Guest contribution to the BBC Radio Four series, "Voices from the Old Bailey" (July-August 2011), examining how far the law gave everyone a fair trial, from the lowest to the highest in society, in eighteen and nineteenth-century England:
HONOURS AND INSTITUTIONAL LEADERSHIP
Professor Sugarman is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Associate Research Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He has been a Visiting Professor in Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain, and the USA, and he has delivered over 300 invited lectures in more than 20 countries.
He is the Founding Director of Lancaster University’s, Centre for Law and Society (2006-2013).
He created (with Paul Brand and John Styles) the “Law and Society” Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Studies, London University. He also founded the “Legal History” Subject Sections of the Socio-Legal Studies Society and the Society of Legal Scholars.
He has served as an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Law and Society Association and the American Society for Legal History.
EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP:
VISITING PROFESSOR:
VISITING FELLOW:
DISTINGUISHED FACULTY:
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law(Canada) -September-October 2002.
TEACHING AWARD
Awarded the Lancaster University Teaching Prize (2007) in recognition of his innovative curriculum design with respect to "Responses to Massive Violations of Human Rights" and the way that he inspired student learning.
COLLABORATION WITH RESEARCH USERS
He has completed research for government departments, inter-governmental bodies and briefed non-governmental organisations on international human rights issues, European anti-discrimination law and with respect to legal services and the legal profession.
International Human Rights and European Anti-Discrimination Law
He was one of the consultants commissioned by the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights to write the Handbook on European Law Relating to Asylum, Borders and Immigration published in 2013.
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Legal Services and the Legal Profession.
Legal History
He has been consulted on the history of English law and legal institutions by English Heritage, BBC TV - Timewatch, the documentary film, "Scandalous Women", the genealogy documentary series, "Who Do You Think You Are?" and the period drama series, "Father Brown". He appeared on the BBC Radio Four Series, "Major Victorian legislation, and how it changed British society."
He was involved in the making of the BBC Radio Four series, "Voices from the Old Bailey" (July-August 2011), examining how far the law gave everyone a fair trial, from the lowest to the highest in society:
Appeared in and legal history consultant for, “Secrets from the Clink”, a programme on the history of crime and punishment, broadcast on Independent Television (ITV1) on 6 August 2014 at 9pm:
https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/secrets-from-the-clink/series-1/episode-1
http://www.nottinghampost.com/TV-star-s-Clink-link/story-22054391-detail/story.html
Member of a project on “Legal Biography”, with the British Library, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (London), the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the LSE Legal Biography Project. Co-editor (with Linda Mulcahy, LSE) of a Special Issue of the Journal of Law and Society on Legal Life Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources, to be published in spring 2015.
Core Member, "Dynamics of Memories" Research Group. This international and interdisciplinary group investigates the politics of memory. Funding has been awarded by the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University,the European Science Foundation and the AHRC.A Colloquium on "Memory and Justice" was organised at Lancaster University in 2009. See, further, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/dynamicsofmemories/
Co-Director, "Conceptualising the contemporary 'professions': interdisciplinary debates". An Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded Research Seminar Programme, bringing together scholars, practitioners, regulators and consumer representatives from Britain and abroad. Bid for funding prepared with colleagues in Lancaster's Geography Department, Leeds University Business School, the Geography Department of the University of Nottingham, and the Cass Business School of City University. 2009-10. For further details, please see: http://www.contemporaryprofessions.com/
Co-Director, The Lancaster Professions Network. This Network is designed to bring together academics from across the university interested in, broadly defined, the professions. The new network has two substantive aims: To bring Lancaster academics together to share expertise and ideas; and to generate interactions between Lancaster academics and practitioners. Members of the network are drawn from across the University. 2008- . See, further, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/professions/
ALLIED ACTIVITIES
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society;
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London University;
Research Affiliate, Centre for Comparative Legal History, Macquarie Law School.
INVITED LECTURES
He has delivered over 300 invited lectures in more than 20 countries. Recent lectures include:
UNITED KINGDOM
“(Re)-Contextualising Dicey”. Conference, “Dicey’s Lost Lectures on Comparative Constitutionalism”. W.G. Hart Workshop on Legal Education and Training. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London. 23 June 2014.
“Albert Venn Dicey: Beyond the Good/Bad Dichotomy”. Conference, “Dicey’s Lost Lectures on Comparative Constitutionalism”. Cambridge University Law Faculty. 16 May 2014.
“The Future of the Legal Profession: Can Research Help the Future of the Legal Profession?” Panelist. Conference, ‘The Futures of Legal Education and the Legal Profession’. Centre for Professional Legal Research Education and Research, Birmingham University Law School. 18 October 2013.
“The Good, the Bad and the Worthy: Alternative Visions of Legal Biography”. Legal Biography: A National Socio-Legal Training Day Workshop. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London. Organised by the British Library, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Socio-Legal Studies Association. 15 May 2013.
“Prosecuting Dictators and Prime Ministers for Human Rights Crimes: from Nuremburg to Pinochet to Blair”. Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Lancaster Girls Grammar School Extra-Curriculum Talk and Debate. Lancaster Royal Grammar School. 10 December 2012.
“A Collision Between Law And Politics: The Secret History Of The Pinochet Case, 1998–2000”. International Law Association (British Branch) Regional Seminar Series on International Law. University of Nottingham Law School. 17 October 2012.
"A.W.B. Simpson in Context: The Life of Brian".Lecture. Legal Biography Group, Law School, London School of Economics, 22 May 2012.
"A Collision between Law and Politics. The Pinochet Case, 1998-2000". Lecture. Centre for Contemporary British History. King's College, London. 9 May 2012.
“Reflecting on Simpson’s Reflections.” Workshop – “Reflections on Reflections: A.W.B. Simpson on HL.A. Hart”, University of Nottingham Law School, 10 February 2012.
“A.W.B. Simpson in Context: The Life of Brian”. Plenary Lecture. British Legal History Conference, University of Cambridge, 15 July 2011.
"Amnesty International: Past, Present and Future". A Public Lecture reflecting on Amnesty Internationals 50th Birthday". The Dukes Theatre and Cinema, Lancaster, 24 May 2011. Co-organised with Amnesty International.
“The Law Lords, Amnesty International and the Pinochet Case: What Happened and Why?”. Special Public Lecture. The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London and The Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster University in association with The British Institute of International and Comparative Law; The Centre for Contemporary British History @ Kings College, London; The Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; The Legal History Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and SOLON. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 25 November 2010.
“’A Hatred of Disorder’. Liberty and Legal Science in England since 1850”. The Geneology of Liberty. Conference in Honour of Quentin Skinner. Institute of Advanced Study, Lancaster University, 11 November 2010.
“A Special Relationship? The Reciprocal Interplay between English and American Legal Scholarship and Education, c. 1950-1990.” Plenary Lecture. Legal Education and Scholarship: Past, Present and Future. Conference in Honour of William Twining. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 20 October 2010.
“The ‘Law in Context’ Book Series: An Historical Assessment”. Workshop on the ‘Law in Context’ Book Series. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 7 July 2010.
"Revolting Law - Revolting Law Teachers? The Struggle to Render Law a Subject Fit for University Education". Inaugural Lecture Marking the Official Opening of the Center for Legal History, Exeter University. 23 June 2010.
“The Reception of Chilean Academic Refugees, and Chilean Culture, in the UK, following the Pinochet Coup of 1973.” Conference on the World University Service Programme for Chilean refugee scholars (1973-1985), within the broader context of the Chilean and allied refugee experience in the UK. Warwick University, 23 May 2010.
“One Hundred Years of Legal Scholarship”. Plenary Lecture. Society of Legal Scholars Centennial Conference. Keele University, 8 September 2009.
"The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile". Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) International Conference - "Taking Stock of Transitional Justice". University of Oxford, 27 June 2009.
“Problematizing Virtue. Reflections on International Human Rights Activism”. ESRC Ethics Workshop, ‘Research Ethics as Practice at the Global Crossroads’. Lancaster University, 22 June 2009.
“Beyond Ignorance and Complacency: Robert Stevens’ Journey Through Lawyers and the Courts”, Colloquium: ‘A Celebration of Robert Stevens' Scholarship’.Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 9 June 2009.
“The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile”, Workshop on Memory and Justice, Lancaster University, 15 May 2009.
“A Battleground of Memory and Justice. Chile since the 1973 Coup." Plenary Lecture. International Conference on War Crimes. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 21 February 2009.
"Unspeakable Truths. Hatred and Justice in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990)", City of Lancaster Annual Holocaust Day Lecture. The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, 29 January 2009. This lecture was supported by Lancaster City Council, the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) and Amnesty International (Lancaster).
"The Struggle to Address the Human Rights Crimes of the Pinochet Dictatorship". Conference, "The Pinochet Case and its Consequences, Ten Years On." A collaboration between the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London; JUSTICE (the British Section of the International Commission of Jurists); and the Center for Law and Society, Lancaster University. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, 11 November 2008.
“The prospects for prosecutions of leaders who commit genocide and other international crimes ten years after the Pinochet case.” Universal Jurisdiction for International Crimes. Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), London. 9 October 2008.
“Constructing a Post-Victorian Legal System: Legal Buildings and ‘Englishness’. The Civil Justice Centre, Manchester, 11 March 2008.
“The historical conditions most likely to sustain a broad, liberal, critical legal education”. Law and Society Association’s Annual Meeting, Boston. 2 June, 2013.
“A.W.B. Simpson in Context: The Life of Brian”. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Legal History. St Louis. 10 November 2012.
"England’s Twentieth Century Ancien Regime. The Belated Modernisation of Legal Education, Legal Scholarship and Legal Culture”. Legal History Workshop. Harvard Law School, USA, 12 April 2010.
“The Globalization of Legal Education”. Guest Lecture – Course on the Globalization of Legal Education. Harvard Law School, USA. 29 March 2010.
“The Language and Politics of ‘Denial’: Knowing About and Confronting Human Rights Atrocities in Austria and Chile”. Faculty Lecture Series. Boston University Law School, USA. 18 March 2010.
“Beyond the USA: Morton Horwitz’s Impact on Legal Education and Legal Scholarship in England, Canada and Australia”. Harvard Law School. 27 September 2008.
FRANCE
"Legal Education and Legal Critics in England". Plenary Lecture. International Conference, ‘Legal Education and Legal Critics’. ENS (École normale supérieure), département de sciences sociales de l'ENS, Paris, 11 June 2010.
“Mixed Signals. Human Rights Policy and Latin America”. Special Invited Lecture. ENS (École normale supérieure), département de sciences sociales de l'ENS, Paris, 1 April 2008.
“Bringing Heads of State and Allied State Actors to Justice 15 Years After The Pinochet Case”. Event at the State Parliament of Berlin to mark the 15th anniversary of General Pinochet’s arrest in London, and its contemporary relevance. Organised by the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights. 30 September 2013.
"Making Respected Gentlemen out of Law Professors”. Plenary lecture. Conference on “Kultur und Beruf in Europe”. Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig, 28 June 2012.
A Battleground of Memory and Justice. Chile since the 1973 Coup". Keynote Lecture. Symposium: “Coming to terms with Europe’s traumatic pasts – an international comparison.” The Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna. 26 June 2008.
"The Human Rights Turn in 'Post-Pinochet' Chile", Plenary Lecture, International Forum Conference, Bologna, 6 March 2009.
“Quotas as an Instrument of Non-Discrimination and Positive Action”. Conference, “Getting Women On Board. Will The EU Do What It Takes?”. European Parliament, Brussels, 7 March 2013.
The conference, which was streamed live on-line, can be viewed on-line and downloaded from: http://greenmediabox.eu/archive/2013/03/07/get-women-on-board/
Educación de la profesión jurídica: tendencias globales y su relación con la Defensa Penal Pública”. Universidad de Talca (Santiago campus). 7 May 2008.
“Globalisation and its Impact on Legal Services and Legal Education”. Law School, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique. 9 May 2008.
RESEARCH SUPERVISION
Current and recently completed PhD and Post-Doctoral Students include:
He has been awarded research and allied funding from the following sources:
· The Arts and Humanities Research Council.
· The American Council for Learned Societies.
· The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
· The British Academy.
· The British Council (Chile).
· The Council of Europe.
· The Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, USA.
· The European Agency for Fundamental Rights.
· The European Court of Human Rights.
· The European Science Foundation (HERA).
· The European Union, Grotius Programme.
· The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, London University.
· Lancaster University, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Advanced Studies.
· The Law Society.
· The Law and Society Association.
· The Leverhulme Trust.
· The Nuffield Foundation.
· The Program in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, USA.
· The Republic of Chile, Ministry of Justice, Denfensoria Pública.
· The Society of Public Teachers of Law.
· The Socio-Legal Studies Association.
· The Twenty-Seven Foundation (Institute of Historical Research, London University).
Responses to Massive Violations of Human Rights (Law 311)
Law and Society, 1750-1950: Culture, Gender and the Visual (Law 215)
Lawyers and Society (Law 264)
Courts, Law and Politics in a Comparative Perspective (Law 307)
International Terrorism and the Law (LLM 215)
International Criminal Law (LLM 236)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
Activity: Conference participation › Participation in conference
Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Media article or participation
Project: Funded Project › Research
Project: Funded Project › Research