Professor David Miers
Emeritus Professor
LL.B, LL.M. (Leeds), D.Jur. (Osgoode Hall, Toronto), LL.D. (Cardiff). David was appointed Professor of Law in 1992. Between 1992-2000 he was Director of the Centre for Professional Legal Studies at Cardiff, and between 2000-2004 Deputy Head and 2004-2005 Acting Head of the Law school. He previously held appointments at the Queen's University, Belfast and in Cardiff. In 1981-82 he was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, Oxford. He has written extensively on the formulation and interpretation of legislation. Between 2001-2004 he held an AHRB award (rated 'outstanding') that supported Wales Legislation Online, a database run from Cardiff Law School that details the devolved functions of the National Assembly for Wales. He has given evidence to parliamentary select committees in both Houses of Parliament on the deregulation procedure, the procedural consequences of devolution, and the legislative process. He was Chairman of the Study of Parliament Group 2007-2009.
David has a long-standing research interest in crime victim compensation and more generally in the place of the victim in the criminal justice system. He is an Editor of the International Review of Victimology, founded in 1989, and in 2001 completed two Home Office funded research projects on the use of restorative justice. He was one of the two UK national representatives on an EU COST Action researching restorative justice and victim offender mediation provision across Europe. He is a Research Fellow at INTERVICT, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He also writes on the legal regulation of commercial gambling. He has been Special Adviser to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and to the Joint Committee on the Gambling Bill in 2003/04. His book, 'Regulating Commercial Gambling', published by OUP in 2004, was described as 'magisterial' in its ommand of the subject. In February 2009 David was appointed for three years a member and in May 2009 Deputy Chairman of the Gambling Commission's Responsible Gambling Strategy Board, whose purpose is to advise the Government on gambling policy.
David is Honorary Treasurer of the Society of Legal Scholars.
Professional memberships
Government Committee
Member and Deputy Chairman of the Responsible Gambling Strategy Board (DCMS) May 2009
Membership of Organisation
Member of the Academic and Expert Board of the Research Program on Gambling Law at the University of Dec 2009
Affiliate Member, Centre for Research into the Social Impact of Gambling, University of Plymouth
Speaking engagements
| Date | Title | Event |
|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Implementing the Gambling Act 2005: The Gambling Commission, and the Casino Question | Centre for Gambling and Risk Taking, Universityt of nevada, 13th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, Lake Tahoe, Nevada |
| May 2006 | The National Lottery: Developments in the UK Lottery | Centre for Gambling and Risk Taking, University of Nevada, 13th International Conference on Gambling and Risk Taking, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA |
| January 2006 | Compensating victims of crime and terrorism in Great Britain | Reparation and the International Criminal Court: Meeting the Needs of Victims , Research Group Victimology and Restorative Justice, International Centre for Comparative Criminology |
| January 2006 | Victims of violent and terrorist crimes: compensation and victim services in Britain | Conference on Victim Services in Israel, Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusal |
| November 2005 | A British view of European gambling regulation | Colloquium on the European and National Perspectives on the Regulation of Gambling, University of Tilburg, Netherlands |
| May 2005 | Modelling a State Victim Compensation Scheme | Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS, Riga, Latvia |
| February 2005 | The Finnish system of victim-offender mediation as part of the international development of mediat | The Future iof Victim Offender Mediation, The Parliament of Finland, Helsinki, Finland |
| May 2004 | Restorative Justice in Europe: a summary of developments and research questions | Restorative Justice and the Victim. National School for the Judiciary, Paris |
| September 2003 | Victim offender mediation with juvenile offenders n Europe | GROTIUS II Criminal Justice Programme, Bologna, Italy |
| September 2003 | A comparative review of restorative justice provision in Europe | Portuguese Association of Victim Support Schemes, Lisbon, Portugal |
| October 2002 | The Gambling Review Report: Redefining Gambling Regulation in Great Briitain | European Association for the Study of Gambling, Barcelona |
| October 2002 | Gaming machines in Great Britain: the new regime | European Association for the Study of Gambling, Barcelona |
| October 2002 | A Century of Change: Gaming Machines in Great Britain | European Association for the Study of Gambling, Barcelona |
| October 2002 | The Gambling Review Report: Redefining Gambling Regulation in Great Britain | European Association for the Study of Gambling, Barcelona |
2014
- Miers, D. R. 2014. Compensating deserving victims of violent crime: the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012. Legal Studies 34(2), pp. 242-278. (10.1111/lest.12013)
2013
- Miers, D. 2013. Offender and state compensation for victims of crime: Two decades of development and change. International Review of Victimology 20(1), pp. 145-168. (10.1177/0269758013508683)
2010
- Miers, D. R. and Twining, W. 2010. How to do things with rules. Law in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2006
- Miers, D. R. 2006. Latest developments in the United Kingdom's national lottery. Gaming Law Review 10(6), pp. 542-551. (10.1089/glr.2006.10.542)
- Miers, D. R. 2006. Rebuilding Lives: Operational and Policy Issues in the Compensation of Victims of Violent and Terrorist Crimes. Criminal Law Review Aug, pp. 695-721.
- Miers, D. R. 2006. A British view of European gambling regulation. In: Littler, A. and Fijnaut, C. eds. The Regulation of Gambling: European and National Perspectives. Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff, pp. 81-126.
2005
- Miers, D. R. and Navarro, M. 2005. La dévolution en Ecosse et au Pays de Galles [The 'devolution' in Scotland and Wales]. In: Fialaire, J. ed. Subsidiarité Infranationale et Territorialisation des Normes: état des Lieux et Perspectives en Droit Interne et en Droit Comparé [Subnational Subsidiarity and Territorialisation Standards: State and Perspectives in Law and Comparative Law]. Rennes: University of Rennes Press, pp. 85-95.
2004
- Miers, D. R. 2004. Regulating commercial gambling: past, present and future. Oxford Socio-Legal Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Miers, D. R. 2004. Britain and Europe: community to union, 1973-2001. In: Giddings, P. and Drewry, G. eds. Britain in the European Union: Law, Policy and Parliament. Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp. 12-36.
- Miers, D. R. 2004. Situating and Researching Restorative Justice in Great Britain. Punishment & Society 6(1), pp. 23-46. (10.1177/1462474504039089)
- Miers, D. R. and Willemsens, J. eds. 2004. Mapping restorative justice: developments in 25 European countries. Leuven: European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice.
2003
- Miers, D. R. 2003. Gaming machines in Great Britain: a century of change. Gaming Law Review 7(2), pp. 131-147.
- Miers, D. R. 2003. Law making. In: Osmond, J. and Jones, J. B. eds. Birth of Welsh Democracy: The First Term of the National Assembly for Wales. Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs, pp. 33-51.
- Miers, D. R. 2003. A fair deal for the punter? The role of regulation and competition as guarantors of consumer protection in commercial gambling. In: Reith, G. ed. Gambling: Who Wins? Who Loses?. Contemporary Issues New York, NY: Prometheus Books, pp. 155-172.
2002
- Miers, D. R., Lambert, D. and Navarro, M. 2002. Memoranda from Cardiff Law School: Wales legislation on-line. Cardiff: Cardiff Law School. Available at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmselect/cmwelaf/79/2102104.htm
- Miers, D. R. 2002. OFGAM? OFBET? The regulation of commercial gambling as a leisure industry. Entertainment Law 1(1), pp. 20-51. (10.1080/14730980210001730311)
- Lambert, D. and Miers, D. R. 2002. Law making in Wales: Wales legislation on-line. Public Law(Win), pp. 663-669.
2001
- Miers, D. R. 2001. Compensation possibilities in the UK. Era Forum 2(4), pp. 88-94. (10.1007/BF02817542)
- Miers, D. R. 2001. Compensation for personal injuries caused by crime in Great Britain. In: Shepherd, J. ed. Violence in Health Care: Understanding, Preventing and Surviving Violence: A Practical Guide for Health Professionals (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 177-201.
- Miers, D. R. 2001. An international review of restorative justice. Working paper. Home Office. Available at: http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/serien/n/CRRS/10-fr.pdf
- Miers, D. R.et al. 2001. An exploratory evaluation of restorative justice schemes. Working paper. Home Office.
- Miers, D. R. 2001. Law and public management — the human rights challenge: regulatory reform orders: a new weapon in the armoury of law reform. Public Money & Management 21(3), pp. 29-34. (10.1111/1467-9302.00271)
- Miers, D. R. 2001. Criminal injuries compensation: the new regime. Journal of Personal Injury Law(4), pp. 371-395.
2000
- Miers, D. R. 2000. Taking the law into their own hands: victims as offenders. In: Crawford, A. and Goodey, J. eds. Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice: International Debates. Advances in Criminology Vol. 3. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 77-95.
1999
- Miers, D. R. 1999. Responsible gambling: a game for four players. Presented at: Developing Strategic Alliances - 9th National Association for Gambling Studies Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 25-27 November 1999.
- Miers, D. R. 1999. Regulatory and market problems in the provision of commercial gambling in Great Britain. Gaming Law Review 3(2-3), pp. 109-128. (10.1089/glr.1999.3.109)
- Miers, D. R. 1999. The deregulation procedure: an expanding role. Public Law(Autumn), pp. 477-503.
David holds an award of £40,000 from the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government to support Wales Legislation on Line.