Dr Mark James

Reader in Law, Head of Salford Law School

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Tuesday 11.00am – 1.00pm

After completing his PhD on the regulation of sports violence, Mark moved to MMU in 1997 to establish the UK’s first LLM in Sports Law and went on to become the Law School’s Director of Postgraduate Graduate Studies in 2000

He joined Salford Law School from MMU in 2006 as one of the School’s original members of staff and its first Associate Head (Research). During his time at Salford, he has established the Salford Centre of Legal Research and was promoted to Reader in 2007. Mark is one of the UK’s leading sports lawyers and has advised many organizations on sports law issues, including the Football Spectators Federation, Supporters Direct, Greater Manchester Police and the Dutch Minister for Safety and Justice.

LLB - Module leader for Sports Law (year 3)

MSc – Law for the Leisure Environment (year 3)

The regulation of football spectators and disorderly crowds

The law of the Olympics

Consent to injury in sport and injury as entertainment

• PhD, PGCE (FAHE), LLB (Hons)
• FHEA
• Barrister and member of Lincoln’s Inn

Sports Law (Palgrave, 2010)

2012 ‘Entertainment – the painful process of rethinking consent’ with S Cooper, [2012] Criminal Law Review 188-199.

2012 ‘Player violence and compensation for injury: R v Barnes [2005] 1 Cr App R 507’ in J Anderson (Ed), Landmark Cases and Decisions in Sports Law, (TMC Asser Press/Springer-Verlag, forthcoming December 2012) ch.20.

2012 ‘The Olympic Laws and the tensions and contradictions of promoting and preserving the Olympic Ideal’ with G Osborn in V Girginov (Ed), Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Vol. 1 Making the Games, (Routledge) ch.6.

2012 ‘The Olympics, the law and the contradictions of Olympism’ with S Greenfield and G Osborn in H Lenskyj and S Wagg (Eds), Handbook of Olympic Studies, (Palgrave) pp304-318.

2011 ‘London 2012 and the impact of the UK’s Olympic and Paralympic legislation: protecting commerce or preserving culture?’ with G Osborn, 74(3) Modern Law Review 410-429.

2009 ‘The legality and effectiveness of using Football Banning Orders in the fight against racism and violence at football matches’ with G Pearson in R Parrish, R Siekman and S Gardiner (Eds), Professional Sport in the European Union: Regulation, Re-regulation and Representation, TMC Asser Press, pp535-554.

2006 ‘Football Banning Orders: analysing their use in court’ with G Pearson, 70(6) Journal of Criminal Law 509-530.