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Image Credit Header image: Artwork by Professor Lubaina Himid, CBE. Photo: @Denise Swanson

Ian David Turner

Reader in Human Rights and Security

School of Justice

Human rights, Security, Counter-terrorism, Jurisprudence, Political theory

Ian is research active in the School of Law and Policing, where he specialises in human rights, security, counter-terrorism and legal and political theory. Ian has been at uclan for over twenty years, having previously taught at Coventry University. Ian is the Lead for Early-Career (ECR) and Mid-Career (MCR) Research in the School of Law and Policing; before this, Ian was the School's Lead for Postgraduate Research (PGR). Ian is the University REF Lead for Unit of Assessment 18 (Law). Ian welcomes applications from students wishing to pursue PGR degrees in any area of his expertise. He is currently a Director of Studies of four PhD students, and a second supervisor for another four PhD students.

PhD (by Published Work), University of Central Lancashire, 2016; PGCE in Further Adult and Higher Education, the University of Wolverhampton, 2000; LLM by Research, the University of Birmingham, 1999; BA (Hons) Law, Sheffield Hallam University, 1993

Latest Additions

Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2015) Human Rights, Positive Obligations, and Measures to Prevent Human Trafficking in the UK. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1 (4). pp. 296-317. ISSN 2332-2705
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2017) Arming the Police in Britain: a Human Rights Analysis. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 90 (2). pp. 107-127. ISSN 0032-258X
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2016) A Positive, Communitarian Right to Security in the Age of Super-Terrorism. Democracy and Security, 13 (1). pp. 46-70. ISSN 1741-9166
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2016) A Communitarian Justification for Measures to Prevent Terrorism in the UK. Perspectives on Terrorism, 10 (5).
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2019) Individualism in times of crisis – theorising a shift away from classic liberal attitudes to human rights post 9/11. In: The Philosophy of Legal Change: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Processes. Routledge. ISBN 9781138586284
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2020) Limits to terror speech in the UK and USA: balancing freedom of expression with national security. Amicus Curiae, 1 (2). pp. 201-232.
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2020) Conceptualising a protection of liberal constitutionalism post 9/11: an emphasis upon rights in the social contract philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. The International Journal of Human Rights, 24 (10). pp. 1475-1498. ISSN 1364-2987
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2021) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Liberty and Counter-Terror Law Since 9/11. Keele Law Review, 3 . pp. 20-44. ISSN 2732-5679
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2022) The routine arming of the police in Britain, the right to life and the security theory of John Locke and Benedict de Spinoza. In: Policing and Firearms: New Perspectives and Insights. Springer.
Turner, Ian David ORCID: 0000-0002-8012-1480 (2023) Criminalising (Hateful) Extremism in the UK: Critical Reflections From Free Speech. Journal for Deradicalization, 34 . pp. 145-175.

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