Doctor Jamie Grace LL.B (Hons) LL.M FHEA

About

I've been teaching a range of legal subjects since 2007; and I'm a specialist public law teacher - lecturing and designing workshops on constitutional law, human rights law and judicial review processes in particular. My two main research interests are the use of technology in policing, and domestic abuse prevention.

I am the digital policing lead member of the South Yorkshire Mayor’s independent ethics panel. I am also Vice-Chair to the independent Ethics Committee established by the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.

I held a Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London) in the summer of 2020; as part of the Centre for Information Law and Policy at the IALS. I also held a Visiting Scholarship at the University of Birmingham School of Law in 2022.

I am research impact lead for Social Policy (Unit of Assessment 20 for REF 2029) at Sheffield Hallam; as I was for REF 2021. I submitted a research impact case study as well as research outputs for both REF 2014 & REF 2021. I also coach and train colleagues at Sheffield Hallam on developing impact.

I was previously a Senior Lecturer in Law in the School of Law & Criminology at the University of Derby (with various roles from June 2007 until January 2014). Additionally, I was Programme Leader for full-time LL.B awards at the University of Derby from August 2012 to January 2014.

It was while teaching at Derby that I became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I am now External Examiner for Law programmes at Derby.

Privacy law, administrative law, constitutional law

Teaching

Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Research Interest

Theories and processes of stigmatisation and legislative and judicial rehabilitation

Criminality information sharing and the politics of public protection and risk

Human rights (and privacy) in post-modernity

Issues of equality and proportionality in public law

State sovereignty and judicial deference

Law

LL.B (Hons) Law and LL.B (Hons) Law with Criminology

'Introduction to Law and Legal Practice', and a range of modules on criminal justice and public law.

Research

• Social and Economic Research Institute

Selected publications to date:

• Grace, J., ‘How Can a Growing Use of Clare's Law Help Us Meet Human Rights Obligations to Victims of Domestic Abuse?’, feminists@ law 13.1 (2024).
• J. Grace, 'Female victims of gendered violence, their human rights and the innovative use of data technology to predict, prevent and pursue harms', in Pandey, M. (Ed.) International Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence, Springer 2023.
• Grace, J. 'Exploring Algorithmic Justice for Policing Data Analytics in the UK', in Roberts, A., Purshouse, J. & Bosland, J. (Eds.). (2023) Privacy, Technology and the Criminal Process. Routledge UK.
• Grace, J. 'Machine Learning Technologies and Human Rights in Criminal Justice Contexts', in Moore, A. S., & Dawes, J. (Eds.). (2022). Technologies of Human Rights Representation. SUNY Press.
• J. Grace, Domestic Abuse Disclosure Schemes: Problems with policy, regulation and legality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
• M. Oswald and J. Grace, 'The Covid-19 Contact Tracing App In England and ‘Experimental Proportionality’', Public Law, Jan 2021.
• K. Hadjimatheou and J. Grace, '“No black and white answer about how far we can go”: police decision making under the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme', Policing and Society (2020)
• J. Grace and R. Bamford, ''AI Theory of Justice': Using Rawlsian approaches to legislate better on machine learning in government', (2020) (3) Amicus Curiae
• Poolman, S., Wilshaw, R., & Grace, J. (2019). Human rights in policing - the past, present and future. The Political Quarterly
• Duggan, M., & Grace, J. (2018). Assessing vulnerabilities in the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 30(2), 145-166.
• Grace, J. (2018). A balance of rights and protections in public order policing: A case study on Rotherham. European Journal of Current Legal Issues, 24(1).
• Oswald, M., Grace, J., Urwin, S., & Barnes, G. C. (2018). Algorithmic risk assessment policing models: Lessons from the Durham HART model and ‘experimental’ proportionality. Information and Communications Technology Law, 27(2), 223-250.
• Grace, J. (2015). Clare's Law, or the national Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme : the contested legalities of criminality information sharing. The Journal of Criminal Law, 79(1), 36-45.
• Grace, J. (2013). Privacy, stigma and public protection: A socio-legal analysis of criminality information practices in the UK. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 41(4), 303-321.
• Grace, J., & Taylor, M. J. (2013). Disclosure of confidential patient information and the duty to consult: The role of the health and social care information centre. Medical Law Review, 21(3), 415-447.
• J. Grace, ‘"Too well-travelled", not well-formed? The reform of ‘criminality information sharing’ in England and Wales’, Police Journal (2013) 86(1) 29-52.

My research is driven by my human rights law interests and has had impact in the following areas:

• the regulation of police intelligence analysis that uses algorithms;
• the management of criminal records sharing; and the prevention of domestic violence;
• approaches to public order policing;
• policy formulation on patient data rights in the NHS

Publications

Other activities

I am a member of the Steering Committee of the Predictive Policing Network

Postgraduate supervision

Human rights law, administrative law, constitutional law, policing, surveillance, domestic abuse

Media

Jamie Grace, who has joined the department of law and criminology from the University of Derby, has research and teaching interests in constitutional, human rights and administrative law in theory and in practice. He also has an interest in privacy law generally, as well as all topics connected to the management and sharing of criminal records and other 'criminality information', as well as patient records and health data, for public protection purposes.