Ian Loveland

Professor of Public Law

BA (Warwick), LLM (London), DPhil (Oxon)
Barrister of the Inner Temple
Email: I.D.Loveland@city.ac.uk

Ian Loveland is Professor of Public Law. Professor Loveland came to City in 1999, having previously held academic posts at Oxford, QMW and Brunel universities.

He was formerly the Director of the Law School's Graduate LLB programme, and is currently the Director of the School's LLM programmes in Media Law and Housing, Land and Planning Law, both of which will commence in 2007.

Professor Loveland has taught and written widely in the fields of domestic and comparative public law. At City he teaches classes in Constitutional Law; Advanced Constitutional Law; Constitutional Law of the USA; EC Law; Housing Law; and Defamation.

His major published works include several monographs:

(1995) Housing homeless persons: administrative law and the administrative process  (Oxford: Clarendon Press); (1999) By due process of law? Racial discrimination and the right to vote in South Africa 1855-1960 (Oxford: Hart Publishing); (2000) Political libels (Oxford: Hart Publishing); and a major textbook which is now in its 4th edition - (2006 - 4th  ed) Constitutional law, administrative law and human rights: a critical introduction forthcoming (Oxford: OUP).

He has also edited several major volumes of essays on public law subjects: (1995) The frontiers of criminality (London: Sweet and Maxwell); (1995) A special relationship? American influences on public law in the UK (Oxford: OUP); and (1998) Importing the First Amendment: freedom of speech and expression in Britain, Europe and the USA (Oxford: Hart Publishing).

He also publishes regularly in leading academic journals on a range of public law subjects, and is a frequent contributor to professional journals in his fields of expertise.

In addition to his academic work, Professor Loveland has recently begun to practice as a barrister at the public law bar. He is presently a member of Arden Chambers, a specialist housing and local government set. Professor Loveland acts primarily on behalf of tenants and homeless persons.

Contact details: i.d.loveland@city.ac.uk; 020 7040 8302