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Stewart Field

Professor Stewart Field

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Overview

I became a lecturer at Cardiff in 1984 after doctoral research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford. I had previously obtained an M Phil in Criminology at Cambridge after a first degree in Law at Oxford University. My PhD `Legal Forms, Legal Ideology and the Early Factory Inspectorate' used an historical case-study to examine the interaction between social conflict and legal forms. In recent years, my research interests have focussed around comparative criminal justice. I have co-written two monographs and co-edited several collections of essays as well as publishing over 60 articles on a variety of criminal justice topics. These include detailed bilateral studies comparing England and Wales with the Netherlands, France and Italy. My most recent published volume was  ‘Criminal Justice and the Ideal Defendant in the making of Remorse and Responsibility’ (Oxford: Hart 2023), co-edited with Professor Cyrus Tata, University of Strathclyde, Scotland:  an international comparative project on the role of remorse and the acceptance of responsibility in criminal justice. Within it I published a substantive chapter pursuing my longstanding interest in French criminal process:  ‘The enactment of political cultures in criminal process: remorse, responsibility and the unique individual before the French cours d’assises’ 

I have been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Law and Society since 1989. For many years I was the Director of our Law and French degree programme and remain the coordinator for our links with Amiens and Nantes. I have fulfilled a number of adminstrative and manageral roles over the years. I was co-interim Head of School of Law and Politics 2021-2022 and Head of the Law Department 2019-2022. 

Publication

2025

2024

2023

2022

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2013

  • Field, S. A. 2013. Miscarriages of justice and procedural tradition. In: Kelk, C., Koenradt, F. and Siegel, D. eds. Veelzijdige gedachten: Liber amicorum prof. dr. Chrisje Brants. Willem Pompe Instituut Vol. 75. Den Haag: Boom Lemma, pp. 397-405.

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2003

2002

2000

1999

  • Brants, C. and Field, S. A. 1999. Convergence in European criminal justice. In: Hondius, E. H. and Jessurun d'Oliveira, H. U. eds. De Meerwaarde van de Rechtsvergelijking. Geschriften van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtsvergelijking Vol. 57. Deventer Kluwer, pp. 179-199.

1998

1997

1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

1990

Articles

Book sections

Books

Research

Research Interests

  • General subjects: criminal process, comparative law and legal culture, youth justice.
  • Particular interests: comparative criminal process, comparative youth justice, French law and legal cultureC

 

Grants

1995 British Council Know How Fund for Bulgaria: £6,750 (Teaching Programme for Bulgarian Judges).

1995/6 University of Wales Collaboration Fund: £2,500 (Organised and co-ordinated international group of scholars working on comparative perspectives on covert and proactive policing, securing financing from University of Wales Collaboration Fund for seminars in Grygnog (Wales) and Maastricht (Netherlands) and leading to edited collection published by Dartmouth

1996 Economic and Social Research Council £79,825 )Obtained ESRC grant for project `Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process’. Lead investigator spending a year collecting empirical research

2001: Economic and Social Research Council £72, 128 (Obtained ESRC grant for project `Early Intervention and Youth Justice in England and Wales and Italy' (with M Drakeford SOCSI and D Nelken CLAWs). Lead investigator supervising gathering of empirical material (interviews and case-files)

2008: British Academy, £11,507 (Obtained funds as host sponsor to enable Dr Renaud Colson (University of Nantes) to come to Cardiff to work together on ‘Fair Trial and Managerialism in Criminal Justice: an Anglo-French study in comparative law’ under BA Visiting Fellowship Award)

2011: Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, £40, 360 (6 month Fellowship for project: Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and Wales)

2016: Cardiff Incoming Visiting Fellows Scheme & International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund, £5,000 (research collaboration with Dr Renaud Colson)

2016: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, series of workshops ‘Security and Justice: the challenge of the transnational’, £12,000, (coordination of series, organization of one workshop)

2017: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, ‘Remorse and Responsibility in the Constructions of the ‘Ideal’ Defendant: Comparing Cultural Expectations in Criminal Process (Cardiff September 2018) Funding of £4.5k

Reports

Early Intervention and Youth Justice in Italy and England and Wales (2005) , Research Report, Economic and Social Research Council.

Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process (1998), Research Report, Economic and Social Research Council.

(with Renaud COLSON) La fabrique des procédures pénales. Comparaison franco-anglaise des réformes de la justice répressive, Rapport, Mission de Recherche, Droit et Justice, novembre 2009 : http://www.gip-recherche-justice.fr/

(with Vera Baird) Devolution of youth justice and the youth court in Wales: report for Welsh Government (Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice, 2024)

Teaching

Undergraduate

Evidence: lectures and tutorials (co- module leader)

 

Biography

Post-School Education

1989, D.Phil. Jurisprudence, Oxford University (Thesis: Legal Forms, Legal Ideology and the Early Factory Inspectorate)

1981-4: ESRC quota award DPhil Scholarship in Socio-Legal Studies, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

1981, M Phil. Criminology, Cambridge University

1980, BA (Hons) Jurisprudence, Oxford University

External appointments, Visiting Lectureships etc.

  • Visiting Lecturer, Willem Pömpe Institute for Criminal Justice, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1992 and Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1998/99
  • Professeur Invité, Universities of Amiens (2000-), Nantes (2005 and 2009) and Rennes (2015)
  • Invited Lecturer on programme of continuing education for French judges, Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature, France 2008-2010
  • External examiner, Strathclyde University Law School 2008-2011 and 2015-2019 and 2023-2025, City University Law School 2012-2016, Warwick Law School 2015-2019, Nottingham Law School 2023-

Honours and awards

Grants

1995 British Council Know How Fund for Bulgaria: £6,750 (Teaching Programme for Bulgarian Judges).

1995/6 University of Wales Collaboration Fund: £2,500.

Organisation and co-ordination of international group of scholars working on comparative perspectives on covert and proactive policing, securing financing from University of Wales Collaboration Fund for seminars in Grygnog (Wales) and Maastricht (Netherlands) and leading to edited collection published by Dartmouth

1996 Economic and Social Research Council £79,825

ESRC grant for project `Defence Lawyers in the French Criminal Process’. Lead investigator spending a year collecting empirical research

2001: Economic and Social Research Council £72, 128

ESRC grant for project `Early Intervention and Youth Justice in England and Wales and Italy' (with M Drakeford formerly SOCSI and D Nelken now King's College London. Lead investigator supervising gathering of empirical material (interviews and case-files)

2008: British Academy, £11,507

Host sponsor to enable Dr Renaud Colson (University of Nantes) to come to Cardiff to work together on ‘Fair Trial and Managerialism in Criminal Justice: an Anglo-French study in comparative law’ under BA Visiting Fellowship Award.

2011: Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship, £40, 360

6 month Fellowship for project: Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and Wales.

2016: Cardiff Incoming Visiting Fellows Scheme & International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund, £5,000 (research collaboration with Dr Renaud Colson)

2016: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, series of workshops ‘Security and Justice: the challenge of the transnational’, £12,000, (coordination of series, organization of one workshop)

2016: Cardiff Incoming Visiting Fellows Scheme & International Collaboration Seedcorn Fund, £5,000 (research collaboration with Dr Renaud Colson)
2016: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, series of workshops ‘Security and Justice: the challenge of the transnational’, £12,000, (coordination of series, organization of one workshop)

2017: Centre for Law and Society Research Theme Funding, ‘Remorse and Responsibility in the Constructions of the ‘Ideal’ Defendant: Comparing Cultural Expectations in Criminal Process (Cardiff September 2018) Funding of £4.5k

 

Professional memberships

Socio-Legal Studies Association

Society of Legal Scholars

British Society of Criminology

European Society of Criminology

Academic positions

2013- Professor

2010-2013 Reader

2001-2010 Senior Lecturer, University of Cardiff

1984-2001 Lecturer (University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology, then University of Cardiff

Committees and reviewing

Current
 Co-ordinator for exchange links with Nantes University and University Jules Verne Picardy in Amiens, 2013-
 
Previous 
• Co-interim Head of School of Law and Politics 2021-2022
• Member, College Board 2021-2022
• Member, Senate 2021-2022
• Head of Law Department June 2019-2022
• Member School Management Team June 2019-2022
• Member Research Committee June 2019-2022
• Member, Research Evaluation Framework Management Group June 2019-2021
• Deputy Head, School of Law and Politics June 2019-21
• Director, Teaching and Learning (Law) March – July 2019
• Member, LAWPL Teaching and Learning Strategy Group, March 2019-July 2019
• Chair LLB Curriculum Review Group April 2019-July 2019
• Deputy Head of Law Department, March – July 2019
• Chair, International Exchanges Committee and Director Student Mobility 2017-19
• Management Committee member, Centre for Law and Society 2015-2019
• Director, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 2014-2018
• Member, Senior Management Team, Cardiff Law School 2013-2015
• Director, People and Environment, Cardiff Law School 2013-2015
• Member School Board, Cardiff Law School 2013-2015
• Chair, Student Mobility Review Group 2013-2015
• International Representative, Cardiff Law School within AHSS College 2013-2015
• Chair, Integrated Board of Examiners 2013-2015
• Deputy Director, Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 2009-2014
• Chair, Law and Languages Board of Examiners 2004-2013
• Director, French Academic Exchanges and Erasmus Co-ordinator for exchange Links with France 1994-2013 (intake 26 yearly, five French Erasmus partners: Nantes, Amiens, Toulouse, Rennes, Poitiers)
• Director, Law and French degree programme (yearly intake 24-26) 1994-2013 
• Chair, Law and Languages Sub-Committee 2002-2013
• Member University Erasmus Coordinators Group and Strategy Review Sub-group 2010-2011
• Member, Working Group on Postgraduate Research and Study Skills module 2009-2010
• Director LLM European Legal Studies, 2006-2008
• Member, Assessment Sub-Committee, Board of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-7
• Member, Working Group LLM Reforms 2004-5
• Member, Working Group, LLM European Legal Studies Reforms 2004-5
• Elected Member, Law School Board 2004-2005
• Member Curriculum Review Working Group 2002-2003
• Member Integrated Degrees Board of Studies (converted to Law and Languages Sub-Committee) 1992-2002 
• Member, Teaching and Learning Quality Committee (previously Educational Development Panel) 1999-2002
• Member, Study Leave Committee 2000-2002
• Member, Educational Development Panel Sub-Committee on Assessment, 2000-2001
• Member Steering Group, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice 1998-2001
• Research Co-ordinator, Centre for Crime, Law and Justice, 1999-2000
• Member, Law School Culture Working Group 1999-2000
• Buildings Committee 1995-1996
• Teaching Committee 1992-1995
• Law Library Committee 1992-1993
• Student Progress Monitoring Committee 1990-1993
• Senate member 1989-1991
• Faculty Board member 1988-1991
• Academic Secretary to Law School and Board of Studies 1988-1991
• SCR Committee member 1985-1988 
• Staff Student Panel member 1985-1987
 

 

Supervisions

I am interested in supervising students in the area of criminal justice and youth justice particularly in a compartive context

Contact Details

Email FieldSA@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 74363
Campuses Law Building, Room 1.04, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX

Research themes

Specialisms

  • comparative criminal justice
  • French law
  • comparative legal studies