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Dr Mark Hanna

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Dr Mark Hanna

Dr Mark Hanna

School of Law

My work focuses on media law. I am particularly interested in privacy law. I am also interested in defamation law and in sociological theory of law.

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  • mark.hanna@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3613

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Development of defamation law; socio-historic research into the development of right to free speech
  • Development of privacy law; especially, the evolution of legal concepts of privacy under modern technological conditions
  • Socio-historic research into the development of human rights, e.g., access to information, anonymity, wrongful arrest, rights of the accused, due process, freedom of association etc
  • Research on sociological theory of law; especially Niklas Luhmann’s sociological theory of law

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Public outreach & key achievements

I have recently been involved in the movement for reform of defamation law in Northern Ireland. You can find the piece I wrote on the subject for The Foreign Policy Centre's Unsafe for Scrutiny,  https://fpc.org.uk/programmes/unsafe-for-scrutiny/

I have also recorded two podcasts on the subject, one with prominent lawyers and journalists, the other with leading academics. You can find both here:

http://lawpod.org/?name=2020-11-30_defamation-ni.mp3

http://lawpod.org/?name=2021-03-30_defamation-law-reform-ni.mp3

 


Research students

PhD area Ownership, unjunst enrichment and subsidiarity: From philosophy to technicality
Name Ataff Almotawaa
   

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Get ahead: tips on how to prepare your application to study for a PhD at QUB Law

Read our guidance on the steps in our PhD applications process and how to present your research proposal.

Interested in a postdoctoral fellowship at QUB Law?

If you have already completed a PhD or are about to do so, and you are looking for a mentor for a postdoctoral fellowship in one of my areas of expertise, please get in touch via email. The School of Law has a strong track record in supporting able candidates who are working towards fellowship applications to funders such as the British Academy, EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie scheme, ESRC NINE and the Leverhulme Trust.

 


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