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Dr John Rumbold

Lecturer

Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Law School

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Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Law School staff

Role

Dr John Rumbold is a Lecturer at the Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Law School, who currently teaches Legal and Professional Environment, Land Law and Trusts Law to undergraduates. He also teaches on the Legal Aspects of AI and Mental Capacity and Mental Health Masters modules. He is a member of the  NTU Centre for Legal Education and the British Sleep Society.

Career overview

Dr Rumbold completed his doctoral thesis on the sleepwalking defence and expert evidence in 2015. Before being appointed as a lecturer in law at NTU, he was employed in projects related to law and ethics of research. He is an expert in the sleepwalking defence and has provided expert evidence on this issue.

Research areas

Dr Rumbold is particularly interested in forensic sleep disorders and mental condition defences, continuing to work with his long-term collaborators in the field of sleep medicine. He is also conducting research into other areas of law such as the assessment of capacity in body image disorders and the role of emotions in law.

External activity

He has published a monograph on (Routledge). He is currently writing  a monograph on the limits of legitimate medical practice. He continues to work in the forensic sleep field,  publishing with his collaborators on the issues relating to forensic sleep disorders and expert evidence.

He regularly advises lawyers and journalists on issues relating to forensic sleep disorders.

He is setting up a research network on the criminal mind to examine the interrelations between neuroscience, jurisprudence and mental condition defences.

He produced a podcast together with Professor Gröeger on

Press expertise

Forensic Sleep Disorders

Course(s) I teach on

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    Postgraduate taught | Full-time / Part-time

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    Postgraduate taught | Full-time / Part-time

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