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Curriculum Vitae
Dr Guy Osborn BA, Dip Law, LLM, Barrister, FRSA
Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster
Office Address:
School of Law
University of Westminster
4 Little Titchfield Street
London
W1W 7UW
Telephone 0207 911 5000
Fax 0171 911 5821
Email: G.Osborn@wmin.ac.uk
Education
1996 – 2002 Manchester Metropolitan University, PhD
1991-1993 Leicester University; LLM Law & Employment Relations
1989-1990 Inns of Court School of Law; Bar Vocational training
1988-1989 Polytechnic of Central London; Post Graduate Diploma in Law
1985-1988 Leeds University; BA (Hons) Philosophy
Professional Qualifications and affiliations
Barrister, Middle Temple 1992
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 1998 –
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Institute for Learning and Teaching/Higher Education Academy 2001 -
Administrative Responsibilities (include)
School Policy Advisory Group 1993-1995
School Admissions team 1991-1996
Deputy LLB Admissions Officer 1993-1996
Director of Centre for the Study of Law, Society and Popular Culture 1995LLB Admissions Officer 1997-8
LLM/MA Entertainment Law Course Leader 1999 University Curriculum Cluster Group 2002 –
Self Access Learning Committee 2002 Referee for Social Identities, Sociological Focus, Communications Law and
Journal of Civil Liberties
External examiner, London School of Economics (LLM), Leeds University (MA by
Research).
Journal Editor: Entertainment Law
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Publications
Books
1) Contract and Control in the Entertainment industry. Dancing on the edge of heaven
Dartmouth Press, 1998 (with Steve Greenfield)
2) Law and Sport in Contemporary Society edited collection, Frank Cass, 2001 (with
Steve Greenfield)
3) Regulating Football. Commercialisation, commodification and the Law
Pluto Press, 2001 (with Steve Greenfield)
4) Film and the Law, Cavendish Press, 2001 (with Steve Greenfield and Peter Robson)
Articles (includes)
Remote Control in Cloonan, M and Garafolo, R (2002) Policing Pop Temple Press
(with Steve Greenfield)
Borders and Boundaries. Locating the Law in Film (2001) Journal of Law and Society
Volume 28, Number 1, 164
The legal colonisation of cricket (2000) Soundings (Lawrence and Wishart) Vol 13
129-141 (with Steve Greenfield)
Football’s legal legacy; recreation, protest and disorder in Law and Sport in
Contemporary Society (2000)
Locating Sport and Law in Law and Sport in Contemporary Society (2000) (with Steve
Greenfield)
The Football (Offences and Disorder) Act 1999: Amending s3 of the Football Offences
Act 1991 (2000) Journal of Civil Liberties 55 (with Steve Greenfield)
Film, law and the delivery of justice: the case of Judge Dredd and the disappearing
courtroom (1999) Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture 6(2) 35-45 (with
Steve Greenfield)
Spirits in the material world Yearbook of Copyright and Media Law (1999) (with
Steve Greenfield)
Artist or artisan? The legal and extra-legal influence on cricketers’ terms and conditions
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(1999) Culture Sport Society Volume 2 Number 1 56-80 (with Steve Greenfield)
From feudal serf to spender. The influence of legal intervention on the status of English
Professional Footballers (1998) Culture Sport Society Vol 1 No1 1-23 (with Steve
Greenfield)
When the writ hits the fan. Panic Law and Football Fandom in Brown, A. ed (1998)
Fanatics! Routledge (with Steve Greenfield)
Enough is Enough. Cricket, Race & Protest in the UK (1997) Sociological Focus (with
Steve Greenfield)
The Legal Regulation of Football and Cricket: England's Dreaming in Roche M ed
(1997) Sport, Popular Culture and Identity forthcoming (with Steve Greenfield)
Aesthetics, injury and liability in cricket (1997) Professional Negligence (with Steve
Greenfield)
Good Technology? The challenge of technology at the fin de siècle. (1997) Information
and Communications Technology Law (with Steve Greenfield)
Pulped Fiction (1996) University of San Francisco Law Review (with Steve
Greenfield)
Would you go to a drug free rave? (1996) New Statesman August 16 (with Steve
Greenfield)
The Referee's Fear of a Penalty (1996) Professional Negligence Vol 12 No.2 (with
Steve Greenfield)
When the Whites go Marching In? Racism and Resistance in English Football (1996)
Marquette Journal of Sport and Law Vol 6 No.1 (with Steve Greenfield)
Law Crosses the Touchline (1996) Solicitors Journal (with Steve Greenfield)
Fashionable Plaintiffs (1996) New Law Journal Vol 146 819-20 (with Steve Greenfield)
Images of Justice (1996) New Law Journal (with Steve Greenfield)
After the Act? The (re)construction and regulation of football fandom (1996) Journal of
Civil Liberties (with Steve Greenfield) 7
Of New Orders and New Dawns: Freewheeling Returns to Negligence (1996)
Professional Negligence Vol 12 No1 (with Teresa Sutton)
Complete Control: Judicial and Practical approaches to the negotiation of commercial
music contracts (1996) International Journal of the Sociology of Law Special Issue
on Law and Popular Culture (with Andy Boon and Steve Greenfield)
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Culture, Change, Commodity and Crisis: Cricket's Timeless Test (1996) International
Journal of the Sociology of Law Special Issue on Law and Popular Culture (with
Steve Greenfield)
Oh to be in England? Mythology and Identity in English Cricket (1996) Social
Identities. Journal for the Study of Race Nation and Culture (with Steve Greenfield)
Vol 2 No.2
Criminalising Football Supporters: Tickets, Touts and the Criminal Justice and Public
Order Act 1994 (1996) Sport and Law
A Gauntlet for the Glove: Challenging English Boxing Contracts (1995) Marquette
Journal of Sport and the Law (with Steve Greenfield) Vol 5 No.2
Where Camus meets Cardus: the outsider in English amateur cricket (1995) Journal of
Sport & Law (with Steve Greenfield)
Gentlemen, Players and the 6'9 West Indian Fast Bowler: The Changing character(s) of
English Cricket (1995) Manchester Metropolitan University Law and Popular
Culture Working Papers Series 2 No. 3 (with Steve Greenfield)
Where Cultures Collide: The characterisation of law and lawyers in film (1995)
International Journal of the Sociology of Law 107 (with Steve Greenfield)
A New Dawn for Negligence? (1995) Professional Negligence Vol 11 No.2 53 (with
Steve Greenfield)
The empowerment of students: the case for popular film in legal studies (1995)
American Bar Foundation Focus on legal studies Volume X No.2, 6 (with Steve
Greenfield)
The Living Law: Popular Film as Legal Text (1995) The International Journal of the
Law Teacher Vol.29 33 (with Steve Greenfield)
The sanctity of the village green: preserving Lord Denning's pastoral vision (1994)
Denning Law Journal (with Steve Greenfield)
Sympathy for the devil: contractual constraint and artistic autonomy in the entertainment
industry (1994) Journal of Media Law Vol. 15 No. 4 117 (with Steve Greenfield)
In fear of rocking the boat: the bargaining culture of commercial music contracts (1994)
Manchester Metropolitan University Law and Popular Culture Working Papers
Series 1 No. 2 (with Steve Greenfield and Andy Boon)
The limited role of moral rights in UK copyright law (1994) Music and Copyright No.34
11 (with Steve Greenfield)
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Liability for references: when is the `kiss of death' `just, fair and reasonable'? (1994)
Professional Negligence Volume 10 No.1 19 (with Steve Greenfield)
Lawyers in Film: Where myth meets reality (1993) New Law Journal Volume 143 1791
(with Steve Greenfield)
Victims of Public Policy (1993) Socialist Lawyer Issue 20 24 (with Steve Greenfield)
Police Liability after Ancell (1993) Solicitors Journal Volume 137 No.13 328 (with
Steve Greenfield & Mark Whittaker)
Complete Control (1993) The Musician Summer 23 (with Steve Greenfield)
Unconscionability & Contract: The Creeping Shoots of Bundy (1992) Denning Law
Journal 65 (with Steve Greenfield)
Unchained Melody: Restraint of Trade and Music Contracts (1992) Business Law
Review Volume 13 No.10 223 (with Steve Greenfield)
Other publications
Various case notes and book reviews, contributor to a number of encyclopaedias
including; Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture (Routledge, 1999);
Encyclopaedia of British Sports History (ABC-Clio, 2000);International
Encyclopaedia of Censorship (Fitzroy Deaborn, 2001),
Encyclopaedia of Football (Frank Cass, 2002)
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Selected Conference Papers and Guest Lectures
Stream organiser, Law and Popular Culture at SLSA 2001, 2002, 2003
A tale of two boundaries. The history of inclusion and exclusion in cricket
Committee for European Sports History, Katowice Poland September 1997
Selling soles: football’s faustian pact
Committee for European Sports History, Katowice Poland September 1997
Techno Cops and Techno Judges: the death of the Courtroom drama
Screen, Glasgow June 1996
Of Dredd and Deathwish: the ends of law
Law & Society, Glasgow July 1996
When the writ hits the fan: panic law and football fandom
Fanatics! Manchester, June 1996
England's Dreaming. Space(s) & Place(s) of Football and Cricket
ICCR conference on Popular Culture and Symbolic Identity Paris July 1996
When the writ hits the fan: panic law and football fandom
SLSA Southampton, April 1996
Presumed Accurate: Fact, fiction and taking (In) the Name of the Father in Vain
SLSA, Southampton, April 1996
Outlaws and the Without Laws: Film and miscarriages of justice in the UK
Picturing Justice, San Fransisco March 1996
Who Bangs the Drum?
Manchester Metropolitan University, Seminar on Legal Theory, January 1996
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. Shadow boxing and shady deals
Law & Society Meeting Toronto 1995
National and international sporting cultures; commodification, commercialisation and the
revenge of the colonies
Law & Society Meeting Toronto 1995
Gentlemen and players: the internationalisation of English Cricket
Sport & Law Conference, Warwick Centre for the study of Sport in Society 21 May 1995
Gentlemen and players: the internationalisation of English cricket
SLSA Conference Leeds 1995
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Boxing clever. The manager, the boxer and their standard form contract
SLSA Conference Leeds 1995
Law's imagery: the representation of lawyers in film
SLSA Conference Leeds 1995
Where Cultures Collide: The characterisation of law and lawyers in film
Manchester Metropolitan University Seminar on Law and Popular Culture February
1995
Legitimising authority: the characterisation of lawyers in film
Law & Society Meeting, Arizona 1994
Cultural heritage betrayed: the adoption of moral rights provisions in the UK and USA
Law & Society Meeting, Arizona 1994
Creativity breeds contempt: Artistic rights in an economic age
SLSA Conference Nottingham, 1994
In Defence of Pop Music: Inequality of Bargaining Power and the Creative Artist
Law & Society International Meeting, Chicago, May 1993
In Defence of Pop Music: Inequality of Bargaining Power and the Creative Artist
Socio-Legal Studies Association, Exeter, March 1993