5 November 2010
Dr Michael Naughton, Senior Lecturer, School of Law and School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), and Gabe Tan, Research Assistant, School of Law will talk about the work of Innocence Network UK (INUK) and University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP) at the LawWorks Student Conference 2010.
Dr Michael Naughton, Senior Lecturer, School of Law and School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), and Gabe Tan, Research Assistant, School of Law will talk about the work of Innocence Network UK (INUK) and University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP) at the LawWorks Student Conference 2010.
The conference will take place on Saturday 13 November at the College of Law, Birmingham.
The University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP), the first dedicated Innocence Project in the UK, is an extra-curricula pro bono legal clinic which teaches law through working on real cases of prisoners maintaining innocence. Established in January 2005 by Dr Michael Naughton, the UoBIP, which is also the founding member of the Innocence Network UK (INUK), is a collaborative venture of undergraduate and postgraduate law students working under academic supervision and guidance, where appropriate, from pro bono criminal lawyers, forensic scientists, and others.
Dr Michael Naughton obtained both his BSc and PhD from the University of Bristol. He teaches in the general area of criminal justice and the specialist area of miscarriages of justice in both the School of Law and Department of Sociology. He is the Founder and Chair of the Innocence Network UK (INUK), the umbrella organisation for member innocence project in UK universities, and Director of the University of Bristol Innocence Project (UoBIP), the first dedicated innocence project in the UK, through which he coordinates student investigations of cases of alleged wrongful imprisonment. He has written extensively on issues related to miscarriages of justice and the wrongful conviction of the innocent. He is the author of Rethinking Miscarriages of Justice: Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and editor of The Criminal Cases Review Commission: Hope for the Innocent? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
