Staff
Dr Stephen Riley
Senior lecturer
Phone 0114 225 5749
E-mail s.riley@shu.ac.uk
Profile
I received my PhD in law from Lancaster University and have been teaching at Sheffield Hallam University since 2006. My area of specialism is the philosophy of law, and specifically, my research is on human dignity, critical theory and law, and general jurisprudence. My recent publications have involved inter-disciplinary work on law, philosophy, anthropology and politics.
I am course leader for the LLM by research and run a postgraduate legal skills module. I have previously taught international criminal law at a postgraduate level. Along with an undergraduate module on legal philosophy, I also teach internet law, the law of sexual offences, and constitutional law.
Much of my work concerns the relationship between human dignity, human rights, and justice. I am involved in human rights and equality activities within the University and I am a member of the national Lawyers for Liberty group.
Publications
'Hegel and the Normative Foundations of Criminal Justice' 6(1) In-Spire Journal of Law, Politics and Societies (2011) 1-15.
'Dignity as the Absence of the Bestial: A Genealogy' 14(2) Journal for Cultural Research (2010) 143-159.
'Human Dignity: Comparative and Conceptual Debates' 6(2) International Journal of Law in Context (2010) 117-138.
'Observing the Breach: Dignity and the Limits of Political Theology' 19(2) Law and Critique (2008) 115-138.
Charlish, Peter and Riley, Stephen. (2008) Should Oscar run? Fordham intellectual property, media and entertainment law journal, XVIII(4), 929-957
Fordham Intell. Prop. Media and Ent. L.J. [2008] 18, 101-129 A paper which looks at the legal and philosophical arguments surrounding the attempt by disabled athlete Oscar Pistorius to be granted permission to compete against able-bodied athletes at the Olympic Games. Written with Peter Charlish.
'Contemporary Dialogues with Fascist Law and Jurisprudence', International Journal of Law in Context (March 2007)
'Not Being Victims Ever Again: Victimhood as Ideology', in The Warrior's Dishonour: Brutality and Morality in Modern Warfare (Kassimeris, ed.), UK/US: Ashgate Publishing, 2006
'Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice', in Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity (Sönser-Breen, ed.), The Hague: Rodopi Press, 2005
Doctoral research: (A Phenomenology of International Criminal Justice, Lancaster University) funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (now AHRC)
Conference papers
'Human Rights and the Anthropology of Dignity' at 'Human Rights and the Primacy of the Political: Conference' Lancaster University, 11/08.
'Nietzsche and International Law' at 'Socio-Legal Studies Association', University of Canterbury, 04/07; 'Human Dignity: Comparative Debates' at De Montford University, 04/09.
'Human Development and International: A Case Study of Ghana' at 'Development Studies Association Workshop', St. Edmunds College, Cambridge 03/06.
'Victimhood as Ideology', at 'The Barbarisation of Warfare', University of Wolverhampton, 07/05.
'Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice' at 'Perspectives on Evil', Prague, 04/04.
Doctoral supervision
I am presently supervising doctoral research on juvenile criminal justice in Pakistan. I welcome applications for supervision of doctoral projects in the following areas (non-exhaustive):
General Currents in the Philosophy of Law (Ancient Philosophy and Law, Postmodernism, Critical Legal Studies)
Human Rights and Dignity (Human Rights Theory, Human Dignity)
Philosophy of Criminal Justice (Philosophy of Punishment, Responses to Atrocity)
