Terrorism and State Surveillance of Communications

About

Dr Simon Hale-Ross A Senior Lecturer in Law at Edge Hill University Simon teaches Public Law Criminal Law Land Law Advanced Lawyering Skills and Career Development. He is currently developing new modules covering terrorism and surveillance for the new policing undergraduate degree to be certified by the College of Policing and delivered at Edge Hill University. Simons research focuses on global security and cyber security terrorism counterterrorism law and policy terrorist electronic communications policing and surveillance international human rights and civil liberties and has been previously published by Routledge. Simon is a reviewer for the Taylor & Francis International Journal The Law Teacher.Dr David LoweA former police officer David is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett Universitys Law School where his main focus is terrorism & security policing and criminal law. He gained his PhD in 2010 from Liverpool John Moores University where he researched the role of the UKs Special Branch in counter-terrorism investigations. His work has been previously published in books book chapters articles in peer-reviewed journals and online journals and he frequently provides expert commentary for the mainstream news media. David also runs his own consultancy business and regularly blogs on issues related to his research on his website drdavidlowe.co.uk.