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Faculty: Business, Computing and Law

School: School of Law and Criminology

Subject Area: Law

I'm a Senior Lecturer in Law in the School of Law and Criminology, in the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law. I'm also the Programme Leader for the full-time LL.B (Hons) Law programmes.

I'm undertaking a PhD connected with data-protection and personal privacy given flows of information in the public sector organisation; with specific reference to health and justice agencies; and the notion of personal privacy in the law of the UK.

I also work with colleagues in IT Services at the University, undertaking projects concerning data-protection and freedom-of-information compliance across the institution.

Teaching responsibilities

I teach mainly public law modules on a number of modules across the LL.B Law programme, the Joint Honours Law programme and the LLM postgraduate pathways.

Professional interests

My professional interests include the use of new learning technologies such as personal study blogs and online peer review to develop androgogy for legal subjects; as well as examining ways of helping students take a socio-legal approach to their studies. I'm interested in many aspects of teaching law to 'non-lawyers'.

Research interests

My research interests comprise privacy and confidentiality issues of data-protection and freedom-of-information in the public sector organisation; with specific reference to health and justice agencies; and the notion of personal privacy in the law of the UK. I have in the past been awarded a Teaching Informed by Research budget for the project 'Designing a new International Law research module'. I was awarded a 'University Promising Researcher Award' by the University for 2010/11.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

I'm a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Recent Conferences

• J. Grace, 'Make Me an Offer I Can't Refuse: Enforcing the Fair and Forcible Sale of Previously Stolen Works of Art, Antiquities and Cultural Property', University of Aberdeen Postgraduate Conference, Thursday 14 June 2007
• Grace, J. 'Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: NHS Data Management', Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2009, Leicester De Montfort University, Wednesday 8 April 2009.
• Grace, J. 'The desirability and scope of a 'New Privacy' Bill and an obsession with space, power and information in postmodernity', Critical Legal Conference, University of Leicester, 12th September 2009
• J Grace, 'The NHS and data-protection best-practice for European healthcare research', European Association of Health Law Conference 2009, 14th November 2009, Edinburgh
• Grace, J. 'Taking Arabic Lessons: The Influence of the Design of the Mashrabiyya on a Constitutional Privacy Model', Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, University of the West of England, 31st March 2010.
• Grace, J. 'Securing constitutional privacy: The hard choice between autonomy and self-determination of decisional privacy', Association of Legal & Social Philosophy Conference, University of Southampton,10th April 2010.
• Grace, J. 'Multiple Modernities and Multiple Privacies: Lessons from 'open space' and 'closed space' for 'legal architecture', Critical Legal Conference , Utrecht, 2010.
• Grace, J. 'Advanced Arabic Lessons: Clarifying The Influence of the Design of the Mashrabiyya on a Constitutional Privacy Model', 5th International Conference on Legal, Security and Privacy Issues in IT Law, Barcelona, November 2010
• Witthaus, G. & Grace, J. 'Some thoughts on OER reuse from Derby to Kabul', Open Nottingham Conference, April 2011.
• Grace, J. 'Learning from Papal Infallibility to Redefine and Harness Parliamentary Sovereignty', Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Brighton. April 2011.
• Grace, J. 'Violence, Masculinity, and Playful Deviance: The dark secret of offences against the person within the 'backspaces' of amateur men's rugby union', Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Leicester, April 2012.
• Grace, J. '"Punchy" 'performance teams': Violence in men's amateur rugby union', British Society of Criminology Conference, Portsmouth, July 2012

Additional Interests and Activities

I'm a member of the Society for Legal Scholars and the Association of Social and Legal Philosophy.

Media experience

I've commented on the debate over the use of superinjunctions and press freedom when interviewed by BBC Radio Derby in May 2011.

I've discussed the implications of reforming or repealing the Human Rights Act 1998 when interviewed by BBC Radio Derby in Ocotber 2011.

I've commented on issues of 'data losses' and data protection compliance with regard to the duties of public authorities when interviewed by BBC Radio Derby in November 2011.

I've discussed the issues surrounding employee search policies used in the workplace when interviewed by BBC Radio Derby in February 2012.

I've commented in an interview for BBC Radio Derby on the legalities of the publishing of invasive photographs of the British Royal family by tabloid media outlets in September 2012.

Undergraduate qualifications

• LL.B (Law), University of Sheffield

Postgraduate qualifications

• LL.M (Commercial Law) , University of Derby
• Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Derby

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