Benjamin Goold, University of British Columbia
Law
Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia
goold@allard.ubc.ca
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(604) 822-9255
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Professor Goold joined the UBC Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2010. From 2003 to 2009, he was a Lecturer at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law and a Fellow in Law at Somerville College, where he taught criminal law, criminology, and torts. Prior to taking up his post at ...
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Bio/Research
Professor Goold joined the UBC Faculty of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2010. From 2003 to 2009, he was a Lecturer at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law and a Fellow in Law at Somerville College, where he taught criminal law, criminology, and torts. Prior to taking up his post at Oxford, he taught law at the University of Niigata in Japan and criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. He has been a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany and at the Centre de Recherches Sociologiques sur les Droits et Institutions PŠ¹nales in Paris.
Professor Goold holds degrees in law and economics from the University of Tasmania, as well as a BCL and doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His major research interests include privacy rights, the use of surveillance technologies by the police and intelligence communities, and the rhetoric and language of human rights. He is the author of numerous works on privacy, surveillance, and security, including CCTV and Policing (Oxford University Press; shortlisted for the British Criminology Book Prize in 2005) and Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing; edited with Liora Lazarus). Among his more recent publications are works on the social and political dimensions of privacy, the role of privacy enhancing technologies (PETS) in the regulation of public and private sector surveillance, and the relationship between human rights and constitutional responsibilities. He is currently in the process of completing a book on surveillance for Routledge and is also working with Ian Loader and Angelica Thumala to produce a book about the private security industry.
At present, Professor Goold is overseeing two major research projects, the first a major field study of undercover policing and covert surveillance practices in the UK (with Bethan Loftus), and the second a study of information privacy for the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (with Charles Raab). Dr Goold has served as an independent advisor to the UK Identity and Passport Service on matters of regulation and data sharing and has acted as Specialist Legal Advisor to a major House of Lords inquiry into surveillance and data collection in Britain. Over the last year he has also served as an expert advisor to the European Forum for Urban Safety and is currently helping the Forum to develop and draft a Charter for the use and regulation of public area CCTV in Europe.
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Professor Goold holds degrees in law and economics from the University of Tasmania, as well as a BCL and doctorate from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. His major research interests include privacy rights, the use of surveillance technologies by the police and intelligence communities, and the rhetoric and language of human rights. He is the author of numerous works on privacy, surveillance, and security, including CCTV and Policing (Oxford University Press; shortlisted for the British Criminology Book Prize in 2005) and Security and Human Rights (Hart Publishing; edited with Liora Lazarus). Among his more recent publications are works on the social and political dimensions of privacy, the role of privacy enhancing technologies (PETS) in the regulation of public and private sector surveillance, and the relationship between human rights and constitutional responsibilities. He is currently in the process of completing a book on surveillance for Routledge and is also working with Ian Loader and Angelica Thumala to produce a book about the private security industry.
At present, Professor Goold is overseeing two major research projects, the first a major field study of undercover policing and covert surveillance practices in the UK (with Bethan Loftus), and the second a study of information privacy for the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission (with Charles Raab). Dr Goold has served as an independent advisor to the UK Identity and Passport Service on matters of regulation and data sharing and has acted as Specialist Legal Advisor to a major House of Lords inquiry into surveillance and data collection in Britain. Over the last year he has also served as an expert advisor to the European Forum for Urban Safety and is currently helping the Forum to develop and draft a Charter for the use and regulation of public area CCTV in Europe.
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