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Can Law Achieve Happiness? Critical Reflections on Criminal Justice (2018)
Journal Article
Campbell, J. (2018). Can Law Achieve Happiness? Critical Reflections on Criminal Justice. The journal of comparative law, 13(2), 21-32

This paper applies Bentham’s utilitarian philosophy to contemporary criminal law in the United Kingdom. This task necessarily requires that I begin by addressing Bentham’s assumptions about the role of the legislator and of law which are central to h... Read More about Can Law Achieve Happiness? Critical Reflections on Criminal Justice.

The World of Home Office Presenting Officers (2018)
Book Chapter
Campbell, J. (2019). The World of Home Office Presenting Officers. In N. Gill, & A. Good (Eds.), Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives (91-108). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94749-5_5

In the adversarial context of litigation conducted in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunal, HOPO’s are elusive: they are only seen when they enter a Tribunal hearing room to defend a decision taken by the Home Office official to refuse asylum, bail or... Read More about The World of Home Office Presenting Officers.