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Professor Ian Ward

Professor of Law

Background

Roles and Responsibilities

Former Alternate Head and Acting Head of the Law School, Research Director, Degree Programme Director for the LLB and BA Law with French Programmes, Director of International Programmes and Partnerships, and Degree Programme Director for Postgraduate Research.

Qualifications

BA University of Keele, 1986
Ph.D University of Cambridge, 1989
LLM University of Toronto, 1990
MSc University of Leicester, 2010

Previous Positions

Lecturer, University of Durham
Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex
Professor, University of Dundee

Memberships

SLS

AIDEL 

Research

Research Interests

My principal area of research expertise lies at the intersection of law, literature and history. Over the last few years my research had focussed more closely on associated areas of early modern English and Roman law and literature. My most recent books areThe Reformation of the English Constitution (Hart 2024) and The Trials of Charles I (Bloomsbury, 2023). Two further books will be shortly published. Law, History, Text: writing ironic legal histories will be published by Routledge in spring 2026. Law, Literature and the Romans will be published by Hart in 2027.

Research Roles

I served as School Research Director between 2001-2007, and Director of Postgraduate Research on three occasions over the last twenty-years, most latterly in 2021.

Postgraduate Supervision

I have successfully supervised over twenty postgraduate research students, whose work has ranged across the spectrum of public law, human rights, legal history and literary jurisprudence. If you would like further information on reading for a research degree at 缅北禁地 Law School please see

Esteem Indicators

I have held visiting positions at the Universities of Iowa, Turku, Montpellier, Verona, Alberta and the Catholic University in Lisbon. I have also served as Shakespeare Moot Court Judge at McGill University, and been a visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies at Ludwig Maxmilian University in Munich and adjunct professor at the Southern Cross University in Australia. I currently serve as international expert on for AIDEL, the leading European law and literature research network based at the University of Verona. I am an editorial board member for Law and Literature, Law and Humanities and Polemos.

Funding

I was reecipient of AHRB funding in 2002-3 for research in English constitutional history.

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

Stage 1 Constitutional Law

Stage 3 Law and History

Stage 3 Law and Literature




Publications

  • Articles

    • Ward I. . Law, Culture and the Humanities 2024, epub ahead of print.
    • Ward I. . Law and Humanities 2024, 18(2), 154-165.
    • Ward I. . Law and Literature 2023, 35(2), 327-347.
    • Ward I. . Anglia 2023, 141(1), 1-34.
    • Ward I. . Liverpool Law Review 2023, 44, 221-238.
    • Ward I. . Critical Survey 2022, 34(4).
    • Ward I. . Liverpool Law Review 2022, 43, 57-76.
    • Ward I. . International Journal of Law in Context 2022, 18(2), 175-195.
    • Ward I. . Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 2021, 72(S1), 186-211.
    • Ward I. . Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2018, 9(1), 83-102.
    • Ward I, McGlynn C. . Womens History Review 2016, 25(2), 227-253.
    • Ward I. . Law and Humanities 2016, 10(1), 59-89.
    • Ward I. . Journal of Law and Society 2016, 43(1), 66-84.
    • McGlynn C, Ward I. . Journal of Law and Society 2014, 41(4), 500-522.
    • Ward I. . Law and Humanities 2014, 8(1), 96-103.
    • Ward I. . Comparative Drama 2013, 47(2), 225-248.
    • Ward I. . Journal of Victorian Culture 2012, 17(2), 206-220.
    • Ward I. . Journal of Church and State 2012, 54(4), 603-624.
    • Ward I. . Liverpool Law Review 2010, 31(3), 207-232.
    • McGlynn C, Ward I. . Journal of Law and Society 2009, 36(3), 327-351.
    • Ward I. . Law and Humanities 2009, 3(1), 87-112.
    • McGlynn C, Rackley E, Ward I. . Kings Law Journal 2009, 20(1), 53-67.
    • Ward I. . Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2009, 28(4), 783-796.
    • Ward I. . Law, Culture and the Humanities 2008, 4(2), 248-279.
    • Ward I. . English Studies 2008, 89(5), 524-551.
    • Ward I. . Criticism 2007, 49(2), 151-182.
    • Ward I. . Law and Humanities 2007, 1(1), 111-131.
    • Ward I. . Journal of Gender Studies 2006, 15(2), 119-131.
    • Ward I. . Public Law 2005, (spring), 67-82.
    • Ward I. . King's College Law Journal 2004, 15(1), 132-145.
    • Ward I. . Archiv fuer Rechts und Sozial Philosophie 2003, 89(3), 349-371.
    • Ward I. . Law and Critique 2002, 13(2), 107-125.
    • Ward I. . Studies in Law, Politics and Society 2002, 24, 81-100.
    • Ward I. . International Journal of Refugee Law 2002, 14(2-3), 219-237.
    • Ward I. . Alberta Law Review 2001, 38(4), 941-59.
    • Ward I. . Journal of Historical Sociology 2001, 14(1), 1-20.
    • Ward I. . Review of Constitutional Studies 2001, 6(1), 101-114.
    • Ward I. . European Law Journal 2001, 7(1), 24-40.
    • Ward I. . Liverpool Law Review 2000, 22(2-3), 235-251.

  • Authored Books

    • Ward I. . Oxford: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024.
    • Ward I. . London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2023.
    • Ward I. . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
    • Ward I. . Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2020.
    • Ward I. . Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
    • Ward I. . Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing, 2014.
    • Ward I. . Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2012.
    • Ward I. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
    • Ward I. . Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing Ltd, 2004.
    • Ward I. . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
    • Ward I. . London, UK: Butterworths, 2003.
    • Ward I. . Sutton Publishing, 2000.
    • Ward I. . London: Butterworths, 1999.

  • Book Chapters

    • Ward I. . In: Capper D; McCormick C; Dawson N, ed. Law and Constitutional Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp.80-97.
    • Ward I. . In: Fionda, J, ed. Legal Concepts of Childhood. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2001, pp.111-126.

  • Reviews

    • Ward I. . Journal of Legal History 2015, 36(1), 116-119.
    • Ward I. . Journal of Legal History 2014, 35(2), 200-202.
    • Ward I. . European Law Review 2008, 33(4), 614-616.
    • Ward I. . Stanford Law Review 2003, 55(5), 2091-2112.