NUIM Department of Law

Mike Feintuck is Professor of Law at the University of Hull, England, where he served as Director of the Law School from 2006-09. His research and teaching career has been in the area of “applied Public Law”, but has focused especially on regulatory principles, and in particular their application to mass media markets.  He served as a Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on Communications for the 2007-8 inquiry into media ownership. He is in the process of writing a new monograph titled School Admissions: Democracy, Law and Lottery. He is also currently seeking accreditation as a mediator, and intends to practice mediation within the Hull Law School’s recently established Legal Advice Centre.

His most recent major publication is “Regulatory Rationales Beyond the Economic: In Search of the Public Interest”, Chapter 3 ( pp.39-63), in Baldwin et al (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Regulation, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Other major publications include,

• “Precautionary maybe, but what’s the principle? The precautionary principle, the regulation of risk, and the public domain.”, 2005, Journal of Law and Society, Vol.32, No.3, p.371-98.
• “The Public Interest” in Regulation (Oxford University Press, 2004).
• Media Regulation, Public Interest and the Law (Edinburgh University Press, 1st ed. 1999, single authored; 2nd edition 2007, co-authored with Dr Mike Varney).
• Accountability and Choice in Schooling (Open University Press, 1994).