James Campbell

James Campbell is a DPhil candidate in Socio-Legal Studies (part-time) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, since 2020. He holds an Associate Lecturer role in Law, Society, and Culture with the Open University. His research focuses on physical movement in court buildings, integrating legal architecture, jurisprudence of the senses, and mobile methods. He is supervised by Professor Linda Mulcahy.

Education:

• 1st-Class LLB (Hons), University of Strathclyde (2014)
• LLM by Research, University of Edinburgh (2016)
• MA in Sociology of Law, International Institute for the Sociology of Law at Oñati (2018)

Research Interests: Socio-Legal studies, legal architecture, legal theory, social theory, and law’s intersections with the humanities. He contributes to the Scottish Legal Action Group (SCOLAG) Legal Journal and edits the 'Borderlands' section of the Centre’s blog Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies.

Awards: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 2023).

Advising/Grants:曾 served as advisor to Strathclyde University Law Clinic (2010–2014), Research Assistant to Professor Donald Nicolson OBE, and Researcher at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, collaborating with the APPG on the Rule of Law.曾 taught Public Law at Strathclyde and Critical Legal Thinking at Edinburgh.

Lab/Teams: Active in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, contributing to initiatives like their podcast launched in February 2024.