Professor
Leslie Moran is based in the School of Law at Birkbeck College,
University of London. He has published extensively on matters
of sexuality and law including The Homosexual(ity) of Law,
(Routledge, 1996), Legal Queeries (Cassells 1998) edited with
D. Monk and S. Beresford, Legal Perversions, (1997)
published as a special edition of Social and Legal Studies, and
Critical reflections on Hate Crime (2001) published as a
special edition of Law and Critique. Sexuality and the politics of
violence and safety with B. Skeggs, P. Tyrer and K. Corteen
(Routledge 2004) is a monograph based upon the UK’s
largest empirical study of lesbian and gay responses to
homophobic violence. He has also undertaken empirical work on
violence against transgender people in Sydney Australia. In
2004 he published Law’s Moving Image, (Cavendish
edited with Prof. Ian Christie, E. Sandon, E. Loizidou, a
collection of essays on law and film. Legal Studies in
Sexuality and Identity (2005) in a series International
Library of Law And Society Scholarship, Edited Austin Sarat, is
due for publication in early 2006. He is currently writing a
book, The Legal Lives of Oscar Wilde, and beginning a
study of homophobia and institutions of justice. He is a
member of the Law Society’s Equality and Diversity
Committee, London Metropolitan Police Lesbian Gay Bisexual
Transgender Advisory Group, and a member of the management committee
of GALOP, a London based gay and lesbian anti-violence and police
monitoring charity.
Professor
Leslie Moran is based in the School of Law at Birkbeck College,
University of London. He has published extensively on matters
of sexuality and law including The Homosexual(ity) of Law,
(Routledge, 1996), Legal Queeries (Cassells 1998) edited with
D. Monk and S. Beresford, Legal Perversions, (1997)
published as a special edition of Social and Legal Studies, and
Critical reflections on Hate Crime (2001) published as a
special edition of Law and Critique. Sexuality and the politics of
violence and safety with B. Skeggs, P. Tyrer and K. Corteen
(Routledge 2004) is a monograph based upon the UK’s
largest empirical study of lesbian and gay responses to
homophobic violence. He has also undertaken empirical work on
violence against transgender people in Sydney Australia. In
2004 he published Law’s Moving Image, (Cavendish
edited with Prof. Ian Christie, E. Sandon, E. Loizidou, a
collection of essays on law and film. Legal Studies in
Sexuality and Identity (2005) in a series International
Library of Law And Society Scholarship, Edited Austin Sarat, is
due for publication in early 2006. He is currently writing a
book, The Legal Lives of Oscar Wilde, and beginning a
study of homophobia and institutions of justice.