Stephanie Palmer

Called to Bar:
2000
Degrees:
LLB (Adelaide), LLM and SJD (Harvard)

Current Position:

University Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge,

Fellow and Director of Legal Studies, Girton College, Cambridge.

Stephanie Palmer teaches a range of courses in public law and human rights to undergraduates and postgraduates at the University of Cambridge.  She is an Editor (developments section) of the leading comparative constitutional law periodical, International Journal of Constitutional Law (I*CON) based in New York and published by Oxford University Press, and is currently co-authoring (with J. Beatson, S Grosz, T. Hickman and R. Singh) Human Rights: Judicial Protection in the United Kingdom (Sweet and Maxwell forthcoming 2008).

Professional Experience

Panel Member of the University of Cambridge Court of Discipline

Cambridge Centre for Public Law:  Management Committee

Editorial Board of Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies

Member of the European Group of Public Law      

 

Other relevant experience

Publications:

  • ”Public, Private and the Human Rights Act 1998: An Ideological Divide”  [2007] 66 CLJ 559-573. 
  • ”A Wrong Turning for Article 3 ECHR and Proportionality” [2006] 65 CLJ 438- 451.
  • “Freedom of Information: A New Constitutional Landscape?”  in Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution (N. Bamforth & P. Leyland eds.) (Hart Publishing 2003) pp.221-246
  • “Arbitrary Detention in Guantanamo Bay:  Legal Limbo in the Land of the Free” (casenote) [2003] 62 CLJ 6.
  • Visible Women:  Essays on Feminist Legal Theory and Political Philosophy (S. James and S. Palmer eds.)  (Hart Publishing 2002)
  • “’They made a Desert and called it Peace’: Banishment and the Royal Prerogative”, (casenote) [2001] 60 CLJ 234-6.
  • “Freedom of Information: The New Proposals” in Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information Beatson and Cripps eds., Oxford University Press 2000, 349-375.
  • “The Human Rights Act and Labour Law” 58 Cambridge Law Journal, 168-200 (2000).
  • “The Human Rights Act 1998: Bringing Rights Home” 1 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies, 125 (1999).
  • “Freedom of Information in the United Kingdom and Australia” in Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom: Practice and Principles (Hart, 1998), 147.
  • “Blasphemy and the Margin of Appreciation” (case note) 56 Cambridge Law Journal 1997, 469.
  • "Rape in Marriage and the European Convention on Human Rights” 5 Feminist Legal Studies 1997, 91.
  • "What has Happened to Children's Rights in the Criminal Justice System?" (case note) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 1996, 406.
  • "Critical Perspectives on Women's Rights: The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms" in Feminist Perspectives on the Foundational Subjects of Law  A. Bottomley ed., Cavendish 1996, 223.
  • "Death on the Rock and the European Convention on Human Rights" (case note) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 1996, 1.
  • "Redefining the Meaning of Life: The Early Release of Life Prisoners" 53 Cambridge Law Journal 1994, 480.
  • "Equality Issues and Pornography in Canada: R. v. Butler" 2 Feminist Legal Studies 1994, 91.
  • "Freedom of Speech, Democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights" (case note) 52 Cambridge Law Journal 1993, 363.
  • International Symposium on the "Constitution of Independent Ukraine" (Proceedings and written contributions published in Ukrainian) Kyiv, 1992.
  • "Private Libel and Public Accountability" (case note) 51 Cambridge Law Journal 1992, 413.
  • "Protecting Journalists' Sources: Section 10 Contempt of Court Act 1981" 1992 Public Law, 61.
  • "Ley Británica de Secretos Officiales de 1989" 126 Revista de Administración Publica, 1991, 495-510 (Madrid, Centro de Estudios Constitucionales). (translated from Public Law).
  • "The Journalist's Source and the Judge's Foot" (case note) 49 Cambridge Law Journal 1990, 385.
  • "Tightening the Secrecy Laws: The Official Secrets Act 1989" 1990 Public Law, 243.
  • "In the Interests of the State: The Government's Proposals for the Reform of Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act" 1988 Public Law, 523.
  • "Prison Discipline and Judicial Review" (case note) 47 Cambridge Law Journal 1988, 165.
  • "Voting Bishops" 1983 Public Law, 393 (with P.Hughes).

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