Dr Richard Cornes

Biography

Dr Richard Cornes is an Associate Professor at Essex Law School. His research focuses on: • How psychoanalytical, and psychosocial, concepts can explain and inform legal processes. • The impact and implications of technology for the judicial role, with a particular interest in the impact technology has on the psychodynamics of judicial processes. • How art, and drawing, can play a role in teaching and psychosocial research. In 2019 he completed an MA in Management and Organisational Dynamics (co-taught between Essex' Department of Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies, and the Essex Business School) in which he further developed his research interests and methods in the re-emergent transdisciplinary field of Law and Psychoanalytic studies. He is a founding member of Essex' Research Group on Psychoanalysis, Law, and Social Phenomena (https://www.essex.ac.uk/departments/psychosocial-and-psychoanalytic-studies/research/psychoanalysis,-law-and-social-phenomena), and co-author of Essex Law School's module, 'Law and the Unconscious'. Subjects he teaches, or has taught, include: Public Law, Administrative Law, Human Rights in the United Kingdom, Comparative Public Law, Constitutional Reform, Understanding Judges, Women and the Law, Law and Government, European Union Law, and Legal Skills. He has experience working (teaching, researching, recruiting, and relationship building) in multicultural contexts in: Aotearoa/New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court system, Germany, Spain, France, Canada, the USA, Thailand, Malaysia, and Brunei. At Essex Law School, and elsewhere, he has held a range of management and leadership positions. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Public Law from 2009 to 2022. He graduated BA/LLB(Hons) from Auckland University (English and Law) in 1992 and the following year was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. During his time at Auckland he studied under Professor Michael Taggart, who inspired his interest in public law. After practising law in Aotearoa/New Zealand (Simpson Grierson, Auckland) he spent two years in Australia, working for the Constitutional Centenary Foundation, as Senior Tutor and Law Tutor at International House (a college of The University of Melbourne), and studying at Melbourne Law School, where he obtained a Graduate Diploma in International Law. In 1997 he moved to London to become a Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit in the School of Public Policy at University College London where he remained until moving to Essex in autumn 2000. While at the Constitution Unit he co-authored, an ESRC funded report on a new Supreme Court for the United Kingdom, with Professor Andrew Le Sueur. In 2012 he was awarded a Phd in Law by Essex University on the topic of comparative top courts reform (with Professors Paul Craig, Oxford, and Paul Rishworth, Auckland, as examiners).

Qualifications

• BA/LLB(Hons) Auck

• Grad Dip International Law (Melb)

• Phd (Law) Essex

• MA Management and Organisational Dynamics University of Essex,