Dr Daniel Newman
Reader in Law
- newmandc@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 4049
- 1.11, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
- Media commentator
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Reader at Cardiff and have been at the School of Law and Politics since 2015. I have expertise on access to justice, legal aid and the legal profession, across criminal justice and social welfare law.
My books have included Legal Aid Lawyers and the Quest for Justice (Hart, 2013), Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021) with Jon Robins, and Experiences of Criminal Justice (Bristol University Press, 2022) with Roxanna Dehaghani. I am currently writing Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice (Hart, 2023) with Jacqueline Kinghan, Jess Mant and Catrina Denvir.
I edited Leading Works in Law and Social Justice (Routledge, 2021) with Faith Gordon, and am currently editing Leading Works on the Legal Profession (Routledge, 2023), Access to Justice in Rural Communities (Routledge, 2023) with Faith Gordon, and Law and Humanities (Anthem, 2023) with Russell Sandberg.
Ihave published two dozen peer reviewed academic journal articles. This includes leading generalist journals such as Legal Studies and Modern Law Review, and leading specialist journals such as International Journal of the Legal Profession.
I edit the book series, Perspectives on Law and Access to Justice, for Bristol University Press with Jess Mant. This is the first book series on access to justice and the first title will be released in 2024.
Most recently, I have been working on the Legal Aid Census with Catrina Denvir, Jacqueline Kinghan, Jess Mant and Sasha Aristotle; the largest survey of legal aid lawyers ever conducted in England and Wales. This will soon be released by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.
I am also working a project looking at blended delivery in the advice sector with Jess Mant. We have been funded by the Access to Justice Foundation.
My work on access to justice has been cited in the UK and Welsh parliaments. I have appeared as an expert on access to justice on TV and radio and in newspapers.
I am on the international board of International Journal of the Legal Profession. I act as a reviewer for journals and book publishers.
I am pathway lead for the ESRC Wales DTP Empirical Pathways in Law. I am the pathway lead for Law on the Social Science Research Methods Master's.
From 2023-2025, I am PI on a British Academy/Leverhulme-funded projected called, The Profession and the Pandemic: Legal Aid Lawyers in the Era of Austerity and COVID-19. I am working on this project with Jess Mant and Emma Cooke.
I am also a member of the Legal Services Consumer Panel from 2022 to 2025. Here I am working on furthering the interests of legal service users.
Biography
Employment
January 2019-present – Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Law School.
August 2015-December 2018 – Lecturer, Cardiff Law School.
August 2013-July 2015 – Research Assistant, Cardiff University Sustainable Places Research Institute.
August 2011-July 2013 – Research Assistant, Cardiff Business School.
June 2011-August 2011 – Research Assistant, University of Bristol School of Law.
Education
2007-2011 PhD Socio-Legal Studies, University of Bristol.
2006-2007 MSc Socio-Legal Studies, University of Bristol.
2005-2006 MSc Social Research Methods, University of Bristol.
2004-2005 MSc Social and Cultural Theory, University of Bristol.
2001-2004 BSc (Hons) Sociology, University of Bristol.
Publications
2022
- Newman, D. 2022. Access to justice for vulnerable and energy-poor consumers: Just energy? Naomi Creutzfeldt, Chris Gill, Marine Cornelis and Rachel McPherson (Oxford: Hart, 2021) [Book Review]. Journal of Law and Society 49(3), pp. 629-632. (10.1111/jols.12374)
- Newman, D. and Robins, J. 2022. ‘The demise of Legal Aid’? Access to justice and social welfare law after austerity. Amicus Curiae 3(3), pp. 448-441. (10.14296/ac.v3i3.5436)
- Newman, D. 2022. Felice Batlan and Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (eds) Histories of legal aid: A comparative and international perspective. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. [Book Revoew]. Amicus Curiae 4(1) (10.14296/ac.v4i1.5499)
- Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2022. Criminal legal aid and access to justice: an empirical account of a reduction in resilience. International Journal of the Legal Profession 29(1), pp. 33-52. (10.1080/09695958.2020.1868474)
- Helm, R., Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2022. Guilty plea decisions: moving beyond the autonomy myth. Modern Law Review 85(1), pp. 133-163. (10.1111/1468-2230.12676)
- Newman, D. and Dehaghani, R. 2022. Experiences of criminal justice: perspectives from Wales on a system in crisis. Bristol University Press.
2021
- Newman, D., Mant, J. and Gordon, F. 2021. Vulnerability, legal need and technology in England and Wales. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 21(3), pp. 230-253. (10.1177/13582291211031375)
- Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2021. The crisis in legally aided criminal defence in Wales: bringing Wales into discussions of England and Wales. Legal Studies 41(2), pp. 234-251. (10.1017/lst.2020.42)
- Robins, J. and Newman, D. 2021. Justice in a time of austerity: Stories from a system in crisis. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
- Gordon, F. and Newman, D. eds. 2021. Leading works in law and social justice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
- Nieuwenhuis, P., Newman, D. and Touboulic, A. 2021. Sustainable Consumption, Production and Supply Chain Management: Advancing Sustainable Economic Systems. Edward Elgar.
- Harris, N., Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2021. Vulnerability, the future of the criminal defence profession, and the implications for teaching and learning. Law Teacher 55(1), pp. 57-67. (10.1080/03069400.2021.1872872)
2020
- Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2020. Legal aid and criminal defence in Wales and England: evidence submitted to UK parliament: future of legal aid. Technical Report.
- Newman, D. 2020. Murder ballads and death in song. Australian Feminist Law Journal 46(1), pp. 17-38. (10.1080/13200968.2019.1810894)
2019
- Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2019. Can – and should – lawyers be considered ‘appropriate’ appropriate adults?. Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 58(1), pp. 3-24. (10.1111/hojo.12288)
- Newman, D. and Welsh, L. 2019. The practices of modern criminal defence lawyers: alienation and its implications for access to justice. Common Law World Review 48(1-2), pp. 64-89. (10.1177/1473779519848348)
- Newman, D. and Dehaghani, R. 2019. Experiences of criminal justice in south Wales: evidence submitted to the Justice in Wales Commission. Technical Report.
2018
- Newman, D. 2018. Submission to the Justice Commission from Dr Daniel Newman. Commission on Justice in Wales. Available at: https://gov.wales/submission-justice-commission-dr-daniel-newman
- Thompson, S., Hayes, L., Newman, D. and Carole, P. 2018. The sexual contract 30 years on: a conversation with Carole Pateman. Feminist Legal Studies 26(1), pp. 93-104. (10.1007/s10691-018-9368-1)
- Newman, D. 2018. Law and justice in popular music: murder ballads. European Journal of Current Legal Issues 24(1)
2017
- Newman, D. 2017. Murder ballads: Nick Cave and his approach to killing in song. Musicology Australia 39(2), pp. 96-115. (10.1080/08145857.2017.1393149)
- Dehaghani, R. and Newman, D. 2017. “We’re vulnerable too”: an (alternative) analysis of vulnerability within English criminal legal aid and police custody. Oñati Socio-Legal Series 7(6), pp. 1199-1228.
- Newman, D. 2017. Are lawyers neurotic?. International Journal of the Legal Profession 25(1), pp. 3-29. (10.1080/09695958.2017.1359612)
- Newman, D. 2017. Divided families and the immigration rules: A partial victory for British citizens with foreign spouses. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 39(3), pp. 357-360. (10.1080/09649069.2017.1344392)
- Newman, D. 2017. Automobiles and socio-economic sustainability – do we need a Mobility Bill of Rights?. Transfers, pp. 100-106. (10.3167/TRANS.2017.070207)
2016
- Newman, D. 2016. Attitudes to justice in a rural community. Legal Studies 36(4), pp. 591-612. (10.1111/lest.12127)
- Newman, D. C. 2016. Alienation and mobility. New Proposals : Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry 9(1), pp. 28-37.
- Newman, D. 2016. Are lawyers alienated workers?. European Journal of Current Legal Issues 22(3)
- Newman, D. 2016. The car and the commons. Review of Radical Political Economics 48(1), pp. 53-65. (10.1177/0486613415586983)
2015
- Davies, H. C., Cipcigan, L. M., Ceri, D., Newman, D. and Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F. 2015. The impact of electric automobility. In: Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F. and Wells, P. E. eds. The Global Automotive Industry. John Wiley, pp. 185-198., (10.1002/9781118802366.ch16)
2014
- Davies, H. C., Wells, P. E., Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F., Newman, D., Chase, A. and Alberts, G. 2014. Aligning industrial, transport and environmental policies for EVs in the low carbon vehicle ecosystem: The example of the UK. Presented at: European Electric Vehicle Congress, Brussels, Belgium, 2 - 5 December 2014.
- Newman, D. 2014. South Park and social research: What cartoons can tell us about sustainable mobility. Journal of Popular Television 2(2), pp. 173-188. (10.1386/jptv.2.2.173_1)
- Newman, D., Wells, P. E., Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F., Donovan, C. and Davies, H. C. 2014. Learning from electric cars as socio-technical mobility experiments: where next?. Transfers 4(2), pp. 23-41. (10.3167/TRANS.2014.040203)
- Newman, D., Wells, P. E. and Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F. 2014. Electric cars in the rural context: developments in Wales. The Journal of Sustainable Mobility 1(1), pp. 65-82. (10.9774/GLEAF.2350.2014.00007)
- Newman, D., Wells, P. E., Donovan, C., Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F. and Davies, H. C. 2014. Urban, sub-urban or rural: where is the best place for electric vehicles?. International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, 14(3/4), pp. 306-323. (10.1504/IJATM.2014.065295)
2013
- Newman, D. 2013. Cars and consumption. Capital and Class 37(3), pp. 454-473. (10.1177/0309816813505164)
- Newman, D. and Ugwudike, P. 2013. Defence lawyers and probation officers: offenders' allies or adversaries?. International Journal of the Legal Profession 20(2), pp. 183-207. (10.1080/09695958.2013.833094)
- Newman, D. 2013. Legal aid lawyers and the quest for justice. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
- Newman, D., Wells, P. . E., Donovan, C., Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F. and Davies, H. C. 2013. Urban, sub-urban or rural: where is the best place for electric vehicles?. Presented at: 21st International Colloquium of Gerpisa, Paris, France, 12-14 June 2013.
- Newman, D. 2013. More than money. In: Robins, J. ed. No Defence: Lawyers and Miscarriages of Justice., Vol. 6. The Justice Gap London: Wilmington, pp. 40-43.
2012
- Davies, H. C., Nieuwenhuis, P. A. H. F., Wells, P. E., Newman, D. and Donovan, C. 2012. ENEVATE Project - electric vehicle market drivers and e-mobility voncepts. Presented at: EEVC, Brussels, Belgium, 19 - 22 November 2012.
- Newman, D. 2012. Still standing accused: addressing the gap between work and talk in firms of criminal defence lawyers. International Journal of the Legal Profession 19(1), pp. 3-27. (10.1080/09695958.2012.758039)
Teaching
I am currently co-leader of the undergraduate modules Global Problems and Legal Theory, and Crime, Law and Society, as well as the postgraduate module, Themes in Socio-Legal Studies. I also teach on Sociology of Law.
I have previously taught on Criminal Law and Jurisprudence.
My research focuses on access to justice. My projects have included:
looking at the impact of austerity on the advice sector;
exploring how criminal legal aid cuts effect the lawyer-client relationship under criminal legal aid;
evaluating the impact of LASPO on social welfare law;
considering how rural areas are damaged by reduced spending on justice through the growth of advice deserts;
the experiences of legal aid lawyers in the Legal Aid Census, and;
understanding the use of blended delivery in the advice sector.
I have published books with Bristol University Press, Edward Elgar and Hart. I have published in a range of generalist and specialist journals such as Legal Studies, Modern Law Review and the International Journal of the Legal Profession. My research has been cited in the UK and Welsh parliaments.
Supervision
I supervise four PhD students, looking at criminal justice in England and Wales and Germany, approaches to child labour, access to justice in Wales, and legal advice deserts in north Wales. I have previously supervised PhDs looking at technology and the legal profession, and sustainable transport in Ethiopia.
I am happy to supervise postgraduate students working on access to justice, criminal justice or other socio-legal projects. In my role as pathway lead for ESRC Wales DTP Empirical Studies in Law, I am always willing to speak with potential applicants about their projects.
