Professor Clive Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds.

Qualifications: LL.B. (Hons., First Class) - University of Leeds, 1975; Law Society's Qualifying Examinations, Part II (Hons., Second Class, 1976); Solicitor of the Supreme Court (admitted 1978); Ph.D. (The Prevention of Terrorism in British Law) - University of Manchester, 1982; LL.D. (Terrorism and the Law) - University of Manchester, 2015; QC (Hon), 2016

Special interests academic interests: Terrorism and the law, Policing and police powers, Media law, Civil Liberties and Human Rights, Public Law.

Former posts: University of Manchester Lecturer 1978-83; University of Leeds, Lecturer 1983-89, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds 1989-92, Reader, 1992, Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, 1993-2014, Director, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies 1987-2000, Head of the School of Law 2000-05, 2010.

Visiting Scholarships and Professorships: University of Louisville, 1993; George Washington University, 1995; University of Miami, 2000; University of Connecticut, 2003; Stanford University, 2006; University of Washington, 2006; Sultan Qaboos University 2007; University of Melbourne, 2007; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London), 2009; University of New South Wales, 2012; University of Toronto 2016.

Walker’s specialist area of research is terrorism and the law. He has published many books and papers on the subject, as well as publications on other research interests. His book publications are as follows:

• Walker, C.P., The Prevention of Terrorism in British Law (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1986) 272pp. + xi
• Hogan, G and Walker, C.P., Political Violence and the Law in Ireland (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1989) 342pp. + x
• Walker, C.P., The Prevention of Terrorism in British Law (Second edition, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1992) 350pp. + xi
• Walker, C.P. and Starmer, K, (eds), Justice in Error (Blackstone Press, London, 1993) 257pp + xiv. The Introduction, Chapter 5 and the commentaries to each chapter are written by myself.
• Walker, C.P. (ed.), Crime, Criminal Justice and the Internet (92pp + iv, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 1998) (see "Editorial", pp.1-4, and (with Yaman Akdeniz), "The Governance of the internet in Europe with special reference to illegal and harmful content ", pp.5-18
• Walker, C.P. and Starmer, K., (ed.), Miscarriages of Justice (402pp + xxx, Blackstone Press, London, 1999) (chapters 1, 2, 6, 8 , 10, 16)
• Akdeniz, Y., Walker, C., and Wall, D., The Internet, Law and Society (Longman, London, 2000) 416pp. I am the principal author of chapter 1, "The Internet, Law and Society", the joint author of chapter 14, "Whisper who dares: encryption, privacy rights and the new world disorder"; and the sole author of chapter 6, "Cyber-constitutionalism and digital democracy" and chapter 8, "Criminal justice processes and the Internet"
• Walker, C.P., The Anti-Terrorism Legislation (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002) xxxvi + 569
• Weaver, R.L., Kenyon, A.T., Partlett, D.E., Walker, C.P., The Right to Speak Ill: Defamation, Reputation and Free Speech (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2006) 331pp + xvi
• Walker, C. and Broderick, J., The Civil Contingencies Act 2004: Risk, Resilience and the Law in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press, 2006) 372 + xxxviipp
• Walker, C.P., The Anti-Terrorism Legislation (Second edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009) li + 606pp
• Walker, C.P., Terrorism and the Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011) lxxiii + 553pp
• Walker, C.P. and Weaver, R.L., Free Speech in an Internet Era (Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC, 2013) 262pp (joint author of chapter 1: 'Can Newspapers Survive in an Internet Era?')
• Masferrer, A., and Walker, C., (eds.), Counter-Terrorism, Human Rights And The Rule Of Law: Crossing Legal Boundaries in Defence of the State (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2013) 360pp (I am involved in three chapters: Masferrer, A., and Walker, C., ‘Crossing legal boundaries in conceptual categories’, Walker, C., ‘Detention in extremis: transferring lessons from counter-terrorism policing to military detentions’, Walker, C. and Staniforth, A., ‘The amplification and melding of counter-terrorism agencies: from security services to police and back again’)
• King, C., and Walker, C. (eds), Dirty Assets: Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Criminal and Terrorist Assets (Ashgate, Farnham, 2014) 372pp (my chapters are: Chapter 1 – ‘Emerging issues in the regulation of criminal and terrorist assets’; chapter 11 – ‘Terrorism Financing and the Policing of Charities: Who pays the price?’)
• Walker, C.P., The Anti-Terrorism Legislation (Third edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014) lxii + 645pp
• Walker, C.P. (ed.), Contingencies, Resilience and Legal Constitutionalism (Routledge, Abingdon, 2015) 152pp (my chapters are '1. Legal perspectives on contingencies and resilience in an environment of constitutionalism - An overview' and '7. The governance of emergency arrangements')
• Lennon, G. and Walker, C. (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism (Routledge, Abingdon, 2015) 486pp + xix (my chapters are 1. Introduction (with Lennon, G.); 11. Detention and interrogation in law and war (with Vladeck, S.I.); 19. The victims of terrorism (with Bottigliero, I., and Sunga, L.S.); 21. Homeland security (with Guiora, A., and Lennon, G.); 27. Countering terrorism via the internet (with Conway, M.); 28. Manifestations of extremism (with Davis, F.); 29. The Penology of Terrorism (with Appleton, C.); 30 Conclusion (with Lennon, G.)
• King, C., Walker, C., Gurulé, J. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law (Palgrave MacMillan, London, 2018) 1260pp over two volumes (my chapters are: 1. Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law: An Introduction; 30. Counter-Terrorism Financing: An Overview; 40. Criminal Prosecutions for Terrorism Financing in the UK; 44 Terrorism Financing and the Governance of Charities

A full catalogue of publications and projects (with some links to full texts) can be found at the external website links below.

Professor Walker has successfully supervised many research students and welcomes further applications. Click here for a full list.

• University of Leeds
• Nuin Associates
• SSRN