Richard Martin

Richard Martin is an Associate Professor at LSE. Richard conducts socio-legal and doctrinal research at the intersection of criminal justice, human rights and public law. His publications include comments and articles in the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review, Theoretical Criminology and Policing and Society and a forthcoming monograph titled Policing and Human Rights (Oxford University Press). Richard conducts socio-legal and doctrinal research at the intersection of criminal justice, human rights and public law. His publications include comments and articles in the Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Criminal Law Review, Theoretical Criminology and Policing and Society and a forthcoming monograph titled Policing and Human Rights (Oxford University Press).

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Police Brutality in the United States (with Shea Streeter)

Police Brutality in the United States (with Shea Streeter)

This episode is part of a four-part series in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. In this episode, we talk to Shea Streeter about the seemingly intractable issue of police brutality and race in the United States and how race ...
Introducing Our New Blog Editors!

Introducing Our New Blog Editors!

The Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog is delighted to announce the appointment of two new editors to our team.  Seham Areff and Victoria Miyandazi join the editorial team this week and will work with our contributors to continue to bring ...
High Court in Belfast Finds the Northern Irish Executive Failed its Statutory Duty to Adopt a ‘Strategy’ to Tackle Poverty Based on ‘Objective Need’

High Court in Belfast Finds the Northern Irish Executive Failed its Statutory Duty to Adopt a ‘Strategy’ to Tackle Poverty Based on ‘Objective Need’

On 30 June 2015 the High Court in Belfast ruled [2015] NIQB 59 that the Northern Irish Executive failed its statutory duty to adopt an identifiable strategy setting out how it proposes to tackle poverty, social exclusion and patterns ...
Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission Granted Leave for Judicial Review to Challenge the Country’s Near-Blanket Ban on Abortion

Northern Ireland’s Human Rights Commission Granted Leave for Judicial Review to Challenge the Country’s Near-Blanket Ban on Abortion

Unlike the rest of the UK, Northern Ireland is not covered by the Abortion Act 1967. If you are a woman living there who wishes to terminate a pregnancy, the law offers you almost no choice: you must give birth unless there is risk to ...
Nonsense on Stilts? Tommy the Chimp’s Legal Battle for ‘Non-Human Person Rights’ in the New York Courts

Nonsense on Stilts? Tommy the Chimp’s Legal Battle for ‘Non-Human Person Rights’ in the New York Courts

Tommy has been imprisoned for most of his life. Locked in a room in upstate New York, he has no money and cannot speak any languages. With the help of lawyers, he is now invoking the historic writ of habeas corpus to challenge his ...