Miss Bethany Shiner


Miss Bethany Shiner
NameMiss Bethany Shiner
Job titleSenior Lecturer in Law
Research institute
Primary appointmentLaw and Social Sciences
Email addressB.Shiner@mdx.ac.uk
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6852-7816
Contact categoryAcademic staff

Biography

Biography

Bethany is senior lecturer in law has been teaching Public Law since 2015. She has taught English Legal System, Employment Law and Criminal Law. Bethany is completing her PhD at the University of Oxford on the right to freedom of thought under article 9(1) ECHR. 

Before joining academia, Bethany was a judicial review solicitor specialising in the Human Rights Act 1998. She was involved in the so-called ‘Iraq litigation’ which refers to hundreds of judicial review claims brought against the Secretary of Defence in regard to alleged human rights violations against Iraqi civilians and detainees during the Iraq war and occupation. 

Teaching

Module leader: Public Law

Link Tutor: LLM SQE pathway

Employment

Senior Lecturer
Middlesex University London
01 Sept 2015

Education and qualifications

Grants

Prizes and Awards

Evidence to public body

Research outputs

The right to freedom of thought: an interdisciplinary analysis of the UN special rapporteur’s report on freedom of thought

O'Callaghan, P., Cronin, O., Kelly, B., Shiner, B., Walmsley, J. and McCarthy-Jones, S. 2024. The right to freedom of thought: an interdisciplinary analysis of the UN special rapporteur’s report on freedom of thought. The International Journal of Human Rights. 28 (1), pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2023.2227100

Ministry of Defence impunity: the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021

Shiner, B. and Chowdhury, T. 2022. Ministry of Defence impunity: the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Act 2021. Public Law. 2022 (Apr), pp. 289-310.

A distinct right to freedom of thought in South America: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Neurotechnology and the application of Bioethics principles

Colnago, C. and Shiner, B. 2021. A distinct right to freedom of thought in South America: The Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Neurotechnology and the application of Bioethics principles. European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. 8 (2-3), pp. 245-270. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134514-bja10023

Introduction to a comparative study of the right to freedom of thought

Shiner, B. and O'Callaghan, P. 2021. Introduction to a comparative study of the right to freedom of thought. European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. 8 (2-3), pp. 107-111. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134514-bja10018

The right to freedom of thought in the European Convention on Human Rights

O'Callaghan, P. and Shiner, B. 2021. The right to freedom of thought in the European Convention on Human Rights. European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. 8 (2-3), pp. 112-145. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134514-bja10016

Big data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods and the need for fundamental reform

Shiner, B. 2019. Big data, small law: how gaps in regulation are affecting political campaigning methods and the need for fundamental reform. Public Law. 2019 (2), pp. 362-379.
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