University of Sunderland

Chris Ashford

External Appointments

• Convenor, Legal Education Section, Society of Legal Scholars
• Elected Member, Legal Education Sub Committee, Society of Legal Scholars
• Committee Member, Association of Law Teachers
• Steam Organiser, Gender, Sexuality and Law, Socio-Legal Studies Association
• Guest Editor, Information & Communications Technology Law, Special Editions, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• Guest Editor, Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, Legal Education Special Edition, 2008, 2009

Recent Publications

Ashford, C. (2008) 'Tearoom Trade', in O'Brien, J, A (ed.) Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA).

Ashford, C. (2008) 'Sex Work in Cyberspace:  Who Pays the Price?', Information & Communications Technology Law 17(1) 37.

Ashford, C. (2007) 'Sexuality, Public Space and the Criminal Law: The Cottaging Phenomenon', Journal of Criminal Law, 506.

Ashford, C. (2007) 'From Baghdad to Sunderland: Weblogs and Reflective Learning', The Law Teacher, 41(2), 206.

Ashford, C. (2006) 'The 21st Century Law School:  Choices, Challenges and Opportunities Ahead', Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, 3.

Ashford, C. (2006) 'The Only Gay in the Village:  Sexuality and the Net', Information and Communications Technology Law, 15(3) 275.

Recent Presentations

Ashford, C. (2008) 'Sexuality, Public Space and Legal Control in the Cyber Age', Law and Society Annual Meeting, Montreal, June 2008.

Ashford, C. (2007) 'Policing at the Boundaries: Public Sex Environments and the Law' A UK Perspective', Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Melbourne, November 2007.

Ashford, C. and O'Brien, M. (2007) 'Subcultures, Public Order and the Human Rights Zeitgeist', Law and Society Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany, June 2007.

Ashford, C. (2007) 'Sexuality, Public Space and Legal Control in the Cyber Age', Canadian Law and Society Association, Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 76th Congress, Saskatoon, Canada, May-June 2007.

Ashford, C. (2006) 'Blogging and the Student Experience', Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Keele, September 2006.