Research and Academic Interests
Jonathan Herring has written on criminal, family and medical law.
Criminal Law
Jonathan Herring has written two best selling textbooks on criminal law. He has researched the law on sexual offences, crimes against corpses and failures of parents to protect children from death.
Family Law
Jonathan Herring has written a popular textbook in this subject and has edited a book on theoretical issues in family law. He has examined the way the law balances the interests and rights of children and parents. He has also analysed legal disputes over contact between children and parents and issues surrounding children's rights. He is a member of the editorial board for the Family Court Reports and is an editor for the Child and Family Law Quarterly.
Medical Law
Jonathan Herring has written a leading textbook on this subject. He has written on the regulation of pregnancy and enforced medical treatment. He has also co-authored with Dr P-L Chau a series of papers on the medical and legal definition of sex, with particular consideration of intersex people and issues urrounding human cloning. He has also written on the ownership of body parts and bodily fluids, as part of a project for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. He is currently working on legal issues surrounding carers.
Publications
Books
- 'Older People in Law and Society' (OUP, 2009)
- 'The Woman Who Tickled Too Much' (Pearson, 2009)
- 'Family Law' (4th ed) (Pearson, 2009)
- 'Family Law and Human Rights' (Hart, forthcoming) (with Shazia Choudhry)
- 'Gender, Rights and Family Law' (Routledge 2009) ( with Shazia Choudhry and Julie Wallbank)
- 'Criminal Law: The Basics' (Routledge)(2009)
- 'Great Debates: Criminal Law' (Palgrave, 2009)
- 'Medical Law: Law Express' (2nd ed) (Pearson, 2009)
- 'Family Law: Law Express' (2nd ed) (Pearson, 2009)
- 'Criminal Law' (6th ed) (Macmillan/Palgrave, 2009)
- 'Parental Responsibility and Responsible Parenting' (Hart, 2009) (With Stephen Gilmore and Rebecca Probert)
- 'Criminal Law' (3rd ed) (OUP, 2008)
- 'Medical Law and Ethics' (2nd ed) (2008, OUP)
- 'Death Rights and Rites' (editor) (Hart, 2007)
- 'Law Express: Medical Law' (2007, Pearson)
- 'Law Express: Family Law' (2007, Pearson)
- 'Criminal Law 5th ed' (2007, Macmillan)
- 'Family Law 3rd ed' (Pearson, 2007)
- 'Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials' (2nd ed) (OUP, 2006)
- 'Medical Law and Ethics' (2006, OUP)
- 'Criminal Law 4th ed' (2005, Macmillan)
- 'Family Law 2nd ed.' (Pearson, 2004)
- 'Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials' (OUP, 2004)
- 'Criminal Law 3rd ed.' (2002, Macmillan)
- 'Family Law' (2001, Longman)
- 'Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy' (2001, Willan) (editor)
Chapter of Books
- 'Relational Autonomy and Rape' in Day Sclater, Ebtehaj, Jackson and Richards (eds), Regulating Autonomy (2009).
- 'Parental Responsibility – Law, Issues and Themes' in Probert, Gilmore and Herring, Parental Responsibility and Responsible Parenting (Hart, 2009) (With Stephen Gilmore and Rebecca Probert)
- 'The Shaming and Naming: Parental Rights and Responsibilities' in the Naming of Children’ in Probert, Gilmore and Herring, Parental Responsibility and Responsible Parenting (Hart, 2009)
- 'Family Law' in All England Review 2007 (Butterworths, 2008)
- 'Older People and the Law' in Current Legal Problems (ed Holder, 2008)
- 'Together Forever? The Rights And Responsibilities Of Adult Children and Their Parents' in Responsibility Law and the Family (ed Bridgeman)
- 'The Place of Carers' Law and Bioethics (ed Freeman, 2008)
- 'Mum's Not The Word: An Analysis Of Section 5, Domestic Violence Crimes And Victims Act 2005' in Non-Aggressive Death (ed Cunningham and Clarkson)
- 'Relational autonomy and rape' in Autonomy (ed Jackson et al)
- 'Crimes against the Dead' in Death Rights and Rites (ed. Herring et al, 2007)
- 'The Meaning of Death' in Death Rights and Rites (ed. Herring et al, 2007) (with P-L Chau)
- 'Family Law' in S. Butler (ed) Discovering the Law (Law Matters, 2006)
- 'Family Law' in All England Annual Review 2006 (Butterworths 2007)
- 'Family Law' in All England Annual Review 2005 (Butterworths 2006)
- 'Men, Women and People' in Sexuality Repositioned ed. Bainham et al (Hart, 2004)
- 'Connecting Contact' in Children and their Families: Contact, Rights and Welfare ed. Bainham, Richards and Lindley (Hart 2003)
- 'Family Law' in All England Annual Review 2004 (Butterworths 2004)
- 'Children's Rights for Grown Ups' in S Fredman and S Spencer (eds) Age as Equality (Hart, 2003)
- 'Buying, Selling and Sharing Bodies' in Bainham, Day Sclater and Richards (eds) Body Law and Lores (Hart, 2002)
- 'Introduction' in Herring (ed.) Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy (2001)
- 'Parents and Children' in Herring (ed.) Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy (2001)
- 'Public law children's cases: whose decision is it anyway?' in Herring (ed.) Family Law: Issues, Debates, Policy (Co-authored) (2001)
- 'The Human Rights Acts and the Welfare Principle - Conflicting or Complimentary?' in Butler (ed) Human Rights at the Millennium (2001)
- 'The Caesarean Section Cases and the Supremacy of Autonomy' in Freeman and Lewis (eds) Law and Medicine (OUP 2000)
- 'The Welfare Principle and the Rights of Parents' in Bainham, Day Sclater and Richards (eds) What is a Parent ? (Hart 1999)
Articles
- 'Revoking Adoptions' (2009) NLJ 377
- 'Losing it? Losing What? The Law and Dementia.' (2009) Child and Family Law Quarterly 3
- 'Who decides on human rights?' (2009) LQR 1
- 'Rape' TONE 2009
- 'Entering the Fog: On the borderlines of Mental Capacity' (2008) Indiana Law Journal 1620
- 'Caregivers in medical law and ethics' (2008) Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 1
- 'Deal or no deal' (2008) NLJ 1621
- 'Why Sexual Penetration Requires Justification' (2007) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 27: 467 (with M. Madden Dempsey).
- 'Caring' (2007) Law and Justice 243
- 'Familial Homicide, Failure To Protect And Domestic Violence: Who's The Victim?' (2007) Criminal Law Review 923
- 'Human Rights and Rape' (2007) Criminal Law Review 228
- 'Gross Negligence Manslaughter and the Duty of Care' (2007) Criminal Law Review 17 (with E. Palser)
- 'Your body, my body, our body' (2007) Medical Law Review 34 (with P-L Chau)
- 'Where are the Carers in Health Care Law and Ethics?' (2007) Legal Studies 1
- 'Relocating Relocation' (2006) Child and Family Law Quarterly (with R. Taylor)
- 'Domestic Violence and the Human Rights Act; A New Means of Legal Intervention' (2006) Pubic Law 725 (with Shazia Choudhry)
- 'Righting Domestic Violence' (2006) IJLPF 1 (with Shazia Choudhry)
- 'Mistaken Sex' (2005) Criminal Law Review 511
- 'Farewell Welfare?' (2005) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 159
- 'Why Division of Property on Divorce should be unfair' (2005) IJLPF 1
- 'Cloning in the House of Lords' (2003) Family Law 781 (with P-L Chau)
- 'Defining, Assigning and Designing Sex' (2002) 16 IJLPF 327 (co-authored with P-L, Chau)
- 'Does Yes Mean Yes? The Criminal Law and Mistaken Consent to Sexual Activity' 22 Singapore Law Journal 183
- 'Are Cloned Embryos Embryos?' (2002) CFLQ 315 (with P-L Chau)
- 'The Human Rights of Children in Care' (2002) 118 LQR 534
- 'Gay Rights Come Quietly' (2002) LQR 31
- 'Assigning Sex and Intersexuals' (2001) Family Law 763 (with P-L Chau)
- 'The Suffering Children of Blameless Parents' (2000) LQR 550
- 'The Human Rights Acts and the Welfare Principle - Conflicting or Complimentary?' (1999) CFLQ 223
- 'Children's Abortion Rights' (1997) Medical Law Review 257
