Ralph Sandland

Contact

• workRoom C54 Law and Social Sciences Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 95 15716
• fax0115 95 15696
• ralph.sandland@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Ralph Sandland was educated at the University of Kent and Trinity Hall, Cambridge before taking up a lecturing post in the School of Law in 1990. Ralph teaches in the areas of family law, health care law and criminal justice. His research interests span these areas, as well as jurisprudence, feminist theory and postmodern philosophy.

Selected Publications

• SANDLAND, R., 2009. Policing Care in the House of Lords Journal of Mental Health Law. 171-179

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Current PhD Students

• Beyer, Megan: Neoliberal Governmentality at the 2012 Olympic Games: A New Approach to Human Trafficking and Victimhood in Foucault's Carceral Archipelago (co-supervised by Professor Vanessa Munro)
• Graham, Laura: A Critical Exploration of the Role of the Human Rights Act in the Reform of Prostitution Law (co-supervised by Professor Vanessa Munro)
• Reichstein, Angelika :The right to life - a right to have a life and a right to end one's life (co-supervised by Professor Alastair Mowbray)

Recent PhD Students

• Balmer, Andrew: Where the truth Lies: A Critical Analysis of the use of fMRI as a Lie Detector (co-supervised with Professor Roberts Dingwall)

• SANDLAND, R., 2017. Lessons for Children’s Rights from Disability Rights?. In: BREMS, E., DESMET, E. AND VANDENHOLE, W., ed., Children’s rights in the global human rights landscape: isolation, inspiration, integration? Routledge.
• SANDLAND, R. AND LOBATO DE FARIA, P., 2017. The Duties of citizens with regard to health. In: ANDRE DEN EXTER, ed., European Health Law Maklu.
• SANDLAND, R., 2017. A Clash of Conventions? Participation, Power and the Rights of Disabled Children Social Inclusion. 5(3), 955
• BARTLETT, P. AND SANDLAND, R., 2013. Mental health law: policy and practice 4th ed. 4th. Oxford University Press.
• SANDLAND, R., 2013. Sex and capacity: the management of monsters? Modern Law Review. 76(6), 981-1009
• SANDLAND, R., 2013. Concubitu prohibere vago: sex and the idiot girl, 1846-1913 Feminist Legal Studies. 21(1), 81-108
• BALMER, A.S. and SANDLAND, R., 2012. Making monsters: the polygraph, the plethysmograph, and other practices for the performance of abnormal sexuality Journal of Law and Society. 39(4), 593-615
• SANDLAND, R., 2010. Children, mental disorder, and the law. In: GOSTIN, L., BARTLETT, P., FENNELL, P., MCHALE, J. and MACKAY, R., eds., Principles of mental health law and policy Oxford University Press. 655-698
• SANDLAND, R, 2009. Runnning To Stand Still Social and Legal Studies. 18(2), 253-257
• SANDLAND, R., 2009. Poetic Justice: Tabernacle v Secretary of State for Defence [2009] EWCA Civ 23 Feminist Legal Studies. 17(2), 219-228
• SANDLAND, R., 2009. Policing Care in the House of Lords Journal of Mental Health Law. 171-179
• SANDLAND, R., 2008. Developing a jurisprudence of difference: the protection of the human rights of travelling peoples by the European Court of Human Rights Human Rights Law Review. 8(3), 475-516
• SANDLAND, R., 2007. Human Rights and the Provision of Residential Care under the National Assistance Act 1948 Journal of Mental Health Law.
• SANDLAND, R., 2007. Freedom of the press and the confidentiality of medical records: Ackroyd v. Mersey Care NHS Trust (No.2) Medical Law Review. 15(3), 400-409
• BARTLETT, P. and SANDLAND, R., 2007. Mental health law: policy and practice 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• SANDLAND, R., 2005. Feminism and the Gender Recognition Act 2004 Feminist Legal Studies. 13(1), 43-66
• LOBATODEFARIA, P., LHUILLIER, J.M. and SANDLAND, R.P., 2003. Health law and bioethics: a European perspective. In: Europhamili: the European management training course for health service professionals Rennes: Editions de l'ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique. 69-94
• SANDLAND, R., 2003. Crossing and not crossing: gender, sexuality and melancholy in the European Court of Human Rights Christine Goodwin v. United Kingdom (Application no. 28957/95) [2002] I.R.L.R. 664, [2002] 2 F.L.R. 487, [2002] 2 F.C.R. 577, (2002) 35 E.H.R.R. 18, 13 B.H.R.C. 120, (2002) 67 B.M.L.R. 199, I v. United Kingdom (Application no. 25680/94) [2002] 2 F.L.R. 518, [2002] 2 F.C.R. 613 (ECHR) Feminist Legal Studies. 11(2), 191-209
• BARTLETT, P and SANDLAND, R., 2003. Mental health law: policy and practice 2nd ed.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• SANDLAND, R.P., 2002. The Rights of Patients in the EU In: Seminar at National School of Public Health.
• SANDLAND, R.P., 2002. Medical Negligence: The Prospects for Reform In: Trent Podiatric Society Forum.
• SANDLAND,R.P., 2001. Review of W. Mansell, B. Meteyard and A Thomson, A Critical Introduction to Law (London: Cavendish)(2nd ed., 1999) Social and Legal Studies. 10(3), 423-424
• SANDLAND, R., 2000. Feminist Theory and Law: Beyond the Possibilities of the Present?. In: Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory Cavendish Publishing Ltd, London, UK. 89-115
• SANDLAND, R., 2000. Not `Social Justice': The Housing Association, the Judges, the Tenant and his Lover: Fitzpatrick v. Sterling Housing Association [1997] 4 All E.R. 991; [1998] 1 F.L.R. 6 (C.A.); [1999] 4 All E.R. 705 (H.L.) Feminist Legal Studies. VOL 8(PART 2), 227-239
• SANDLAND, R., 2000. Law Without Enforcement: Integrating Mental Health and Justice by Nigel Eastman and Jill Peay (Eds) Social and Legal Studies. VOL 9(PART 4), 597-598
• SANDLAND, R.P. and RICHARDSON, J., eds., 2000. Feminist Perspectives on Law and Theory Cavendish Publishing Ltd, London, UK.
• SANDLAND, R.P. and RICHARDSON, J., 2000. Feminism, Law and Theory. In: Feminist Perspectives On Law and Theory Cavendish Publishing Ltd, London, UK. 1-22
• BARTLETT, PETER and SANDLAND, RALPH, 2000. Mental health law : policy and practice / Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland London : Blackstone, 2000.
• SANDLAND,R.P., 1998. Review of C. Burck and B. Speed (eds.), Gender, Power and Relationships (London: Routledge)(1995) International Journal of Law and the Family. 12(2), 243-245
• SANDLAND, R., 1998. The Mirror and the Veil: Reading The Imaginary Domain Feminist Legal Studies. VOL 6(NUMBER 1), 33-58
• SANDLAND, R., 1998. Seeing Double? Or, Why 'to be or not to be' is (not) the Question for Feminist Legal Studies Social and Legal Studies. VOL 7(NUMBER 3), 307-338
• SANDLAND, R., 1996. The Real, the Simulacrum, and the Construction of 'Gypsy' in Law Journal of Law and Society. VOL 23(NUMBER 3), 383-405
• SANDLAND,R.P., 1996. Review of J. Eekelaar and M. Maclean (eds.), A Reader on Family Law (Oxford: OUP)(1995) International Journal of Law and the Family. 10(1), 102-104
• SANDLAND, R., 1995. Problems in the Criminal Law of Adoption Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. VOL 17(NUMBER 2), 149
• SANDLAND, R., 1995. Between "Truth" and Difference": Poststructuralism, Law and the Power of Feminism Feminist Legal Studies. VOL 3(NUMBER 1), 3-47
• JOLLY, S. and SANDLAND, R., 1994. Political Correctness and the Adoption White Paper Family Law. VOL 24(MNTH 1), 30
• SANDLAND, R., 1994. The common law and the `informal' minor patient Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. VOL 5(NUMBER 3), 569
• SANDLAND,R.P., 1994. Review of Adcock, Kammik and White (eds.), Family Law Family Law. 292
• SANDLAND,R.P., 1994. Review of J. Young and R. Matthews (eds.), Rethinking Criminology: the Realist Debate and Issues in Realist Criminology (London: Sage)(1992) British Journal of Criminology. 232-233
• SANDLAND,R.P., 1994. Out of the Freeing Plan..? Journal of Child Law. 152-156
• SANDLAND, R., 1994. Travelling back to the future? New Law Journal. ISSUE 6650, 750
• SANDLAND, R., 1993. Minors and consent to treatment Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. VOL 4(NUMBER 1), 138
• SANDLAND, R., 1993. Adoption, Law and Homosexuality: Can Gay People Adopt a Child? Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. NUMBER 5, 321
• SANDLAND,R.P., 1992. Children and Consent to Treatment Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. 3(1), 145-152