Dr Mike Redmayne

Department: Law Department; Mannheim Centre for Criminology
Contact details: +44 (0)20 7955 7245; m.redmayne@lse.ac.uk
LSE Experts: Dr Mike Redmayne

Mike Redmayne studied law with French at the University of Birmingham. He graduated in 1990, and stayed on at Birmingham to undertake PhD research on expert evidence. In 1993 he moved to Manchester University to take up a lectureship in law, moving to a lectureship at Brunel in 1997. In 1999 he came to LSE, where he is now a reader in the Law Department.

Mike's research interests lie broadly in criminal justice, but he specialises in particular in the law of evidence. His work on evidence is characterised by a concern to broaden out this sometimes rather narrow discipline. For example, in Expert Evidence and Criminal Justice (2001) he developed ideas about case construction in his analysis of the uses of forensic science. That work also drew on probability theory and philosophy of science in its analysis of the uses and evaluation of expert evidence in the criminal process.

His current work on character evidence uses empirical work on recidivism to evaluate exclusionary rules of evidence. Mike is actively involved with several journals, being on the editorial boards of Law, Probability and Risk, The Modern Law Review, and Evidence and Proof. Mike's teaching areas reflect his research interests. He currently teaches criminal law, law of evidence, legal systems, and an LLM course on criminal procedure.

Research

Mike is currently working on a book on character evidence.

Recent publications

• Expert Evidence and Criminal Justice (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001) xx + 223 pp
• 'Appeals to reason' (2002) 65 The Modern Law Review pp 19-35
• 'The relevance of bad character' (2002) 61 Cambridge Law Journal 684-714
• The Criminal Process 3rd edition (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005) with Andrew Ashowrth

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