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Adam Jackson

Associate Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

Adam is an Associate Professor of Law and is currently Programme Leader of the M Law Exempting degree. Since 2010 he has also been Deputy Director of the Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies (about which you can find out more here. Adam has published widely in the field of criminal justice with a particular focus on; criminal law reform, expert evidence in criminal proceedings, “criminal Justice information” (including criminal records and forensic bio-information) and international criminal justice co-operation. He is currently involved in a NordForsk / ESRC funded research project: Police Detectives on the TOR-network (A Study on Tensions Between Privacy and Crime Fighting).

Adam is also interested in legal pedagogy and in particular curriculum design, peer mentoring and feedback. Adam has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) since 2009 and Case Note Editor of the Journal of Criminal Law (SAGE Publishing) since 2012.

 

Campus Address

CCE1 – Room 352
Northumbria Law School, Faculty of Business and Law
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Digital evidence, police investigations, and lessons learned from EncroChat: is it time for a new framework for the admission of digital and communication evidence?, Griffiths, C., Jackson, A. 6 Jun 2024, In: Criminal Law Review
  • Evidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder and its Relevance to a Reasonable Belief in Consent in the Context of Sexual Offences: R v Jacobs [2023] EWCA Crim 1503, Jackson, A. Jun 2024, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Preventing Machines From Lying: Why Interdisciplinary Collaboration is Essential for Understanding Artefactual or Artefactually Dependent Expert Evidence, Wilson, T., Bergman, J., Jackson, A., Popov, O. 1 Apr 2024, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Intercepted communications as evidence: The Admissibility of Material Obtained from the Encrypted Messaging Service EncroChat: R v A, B, D & C [2021] EWCA Crim 128, Griffiths, C., Jackson, A. 1 Aug 2022, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • A comparative Analysis of Anglo-Dutch approaches to “cyber policing”: checks and balances fit for purpose?, Brants, C., Jackson, A., Wilson, T. Oct 2020, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Sexual behaviour evidence and evidence of bad character in sexual offence proceedings: Proposing a combined admissibility framework., Brewis, B., Jackson, A. 1 Feb 2020, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Committal of an Expert Witness for Contempt of Court: Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co. Ltd v Zafar [2019] EWCA Civ 392, Ward, T., Jackson, A. 1 Jun 2019, In: The Journal of Criminal Law
  • Northumbria University Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies (NCECJS) – Written evidence (FRS0038), Wilson, T., Stockdale, M., Jackson, A., Carr, S., Davies, G., Piasecki, E. 14 Sep 2018
  • Re-examining the ‘reliability’ of forensic pathology evidence, Wilson, T., Jackson, A., Gallop, A., Piasecki, E. 30 Nov 2018, Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar
  • Science and Justice Research Interest Group (RIG), Northumbria University - written evidence to the Science and Technology Committee (Lords) inquiry on forensic science (FRS0051), McCartney, C., Evison, M., Ward, T., Wortley, N., Piasecki, E., Nsiah Amoako, E., Amankwaa, A., Jackson, A. 14 Sep 2018

  • Academic Studies in Education MA November 18 2015
  • Teaching & Learning PCAPL October 05 2006
  • Law LLB (Hons) June 30 2005
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2005


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