Dr Patrick Bishop

Senior Lecturer

Law

+44 (0) 1792 543586

p.bishop@swansea.ac.uk

Office - 006
Ground Floor
Richard Price Building
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5023-8277

About

Patrick’s research interests include environmental law and cybercrime. While these two subjects may seem disparate and unconnected, various themes of his published work span both disciplines, including regulatory design, regulatory enforcement, deterrence theory, and the role of science and expertise in the development of policy and legal decision making.

Patrick’s teaching interests are equally diverse and include the Law of Tort, Media Law and Cybercrime at undergraduate level and Crime in Cyberspace on the MA in Cybercrime and Terrorism.

Patrick is currently the head of admissions for the undergraduate law programmes at the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. He is also the Postgraduate Research Coordinator for law and a mentor and internal assessor for Associate Fellowship and Fellowship of Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Authority.

Areas Of Expertise

Cybercrime
Crime control strategies
Regulation and enforcement
Deterrence theory
Environmental law
Science and legal decision making

Publications

Research Highlights

Bishop, P. (n.d.) Legislative Frameworks: The United Kingdom. In Adam Bossler & Thomas Holt (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54091
Bishop, P. & Macdonald, S. (2019). Terrorist Content and the Social Media Ecosystem: The Role of Regulation. In Francesco Marone (Ed.), Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism (pp. 135-152). ISPI
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52902
https://www.ispionline.it/sites/default/files/pubblicazioni/ispi-digitaljihad_web.pdf#page=135
Bishop, P. (2017). Salmon fishing in the severn: Judicial deference to regulatory judgments based on scientific assessments. Environmental Law Review, 19(3), 201-209.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1461452917717334, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45375
Bishop, P. & Macdonald , S. (2016). Public and Expert Voices in the Legal Regulation of Technology. Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27832
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Technology-Crime-and-Justice/McGuire-Holt/p/book/9781138820135
Bishop, P. (2015). Cyberterrorism, Criminal Law and Punishment-based Deterrence. Terrorism Online: Politics, Law and Technology Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20915

All Research

Journal Articles

Bishop, P. (2017). Salmon fishing in the severn: Judicial deference to regulatory judgments based on scientific assessments. Environmental Law Review, 19(3), 201-209.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1461452917717334, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45375
Bishop, P. (2012). Badgers and Bovine Tuberculosis: The Relationship Between Law, Policy and Science. Journal of Environmental Law, 24(1), 145-154.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16817
Jenkins, V. & Bishop, P. (2011). Planning and Nuisance: Revisiting the Balance of Public and Private Interests in Land-Use Development. Journal of Environmental Law, 23(2), 285-310.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eqr002, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7100
Bishop, P. (2009). Criminal Law as a Preventative Tool of Environmental Regulation: Compliance Versus Deterrence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 60(3), 279-304.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7098
Bishop, P. (2008). Planning Appeals and the Informal Hearings Procedure: the Inquisitorial Role of the Inspector. The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 72(6), 525-534.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16818
Bishop, P. (2008). Sewage Treatment Works and IPPC: the meaning of ‘final compounds or mixtures which are discarded. Environmental Law Review, 10(2), 147
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16819
Donnelly-Lazarov, B. & Bishop, P. (2007). Natural Law and Ecocentrism. Journal of Environmental Law, 19(1), 89
https://doi.org/10.1093/jel/eql039, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2283
Bishop, P. (2005). Inadequate Sound Insulation: Does the Law of Nuisance Provide an Effective Remedy?. Environmental Law Review, 7(4), 238
https://doi.org/10.1350/enlr.2005.7.4.238, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2282

Book Chapters

Bishop, P. & Macdonald, S. (2019). Terrorist Content and the Social Media Ecosystem: The Role of Regulation. In Francesco Marone (Ed.), Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism (pp. 135-152). ISPI
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52902
https://www.ispionline.it/sites/default/files/pubblicazioni/ispi-digitaljihad_web.pdf#page=135
Bishop, P. & Macdonald , S. (2016). Public and Expert Voices in the Legal Regulation of Technology. Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27832
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Technology-Crime-and-Justice/McGuire-Holt/p/book/9781138820135
Bishop, P. (2015). Cyberterrorism, Criminal Law and Punishment-based Deterrence. Terrorism Online: Politics, Law and Technology Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20915
Bishop, P. & Stallworthy, M. (2013). Expressing Welsh law Perspectives on Environmental Protection. Environmental Law and Policy in Wales: Responding to Global and Local Challenges University of Wales Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16816
Bishop, P. (2013). Badgers, Bovine Tuberculosis and the Role of Science in the formulation of Welsh Environmental and Agricultural Policy. Environmental Law and Policy in Wales: Responding to Local and Global Challenges Cardiff: University of Wales Press
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa7099
Bishop, P. (2008). Section on ‘Contractual Licences’ and ‘Mortgages – undue influence'. Conversion Course Companion for Law Pearson
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16820
Bishop, P. (n.d.) Legislative Frameworks: The United Kingdom. In Adam Bossler & Thomas Holt (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of International Cybercrime and Cyberdeviance
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa54091

Edited Books

Bishop, P. & Stallworthy, M. (Eds.). (2013). Environmental Law and Policy in Wales: Responding to Global and Local Challenges. University of Wales Press.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa16815

Other Research Outputs

Macdonald, S. & Bishop, P. (2020). Online terrorist content: Is it time for an independent regulator?
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57720
https://gnet-research.org/2020/11/16/online-terrorist-content-is-it-time-for-an-independent-regulator/
Bishop, P. (2018). Enhancing Successful Transition: Assessing the Needs and Wants of Incoming Students: Report
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45449
Bishop, P. (2014). Review: Nuisance and Environmental Protection - A Study of Nuisance Injunctions in Practice by Ben Pontin
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45376
Bishop, P. (2012). Review of Compensating Catastrophe Victims: A Comparative Law and Economics Approach by Veronique Bruggeman
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45446
Bishop, P. (2010). Review of Regulation, Enforcement and Governance in Environmental Law by Richard Macrory
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45448
Bishop, P. (2010). Review of Enforcing Pollution Control Regulation—Strengthening Sanctions and Improving Deterrence by Carolyn Abbot
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa45447

Supervision

Cybersecurity Standards: Shifting regulatory theory from deterrence to regulatory mandated target hardening in critical industry. (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Katy Vaughan
(In)visible Women: Experiences of and Responses to Gender-Based Online Harms (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Sara Correia-Hopkins
Respecting Human Rights and the Rule of Law in cyberspace: The challenges posed by trans-border access to data in criminal cases (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Stuart Macdonald

Other supervisor: Prof Helen Quane
Addressing Overcriminalisation : An alternative Perspective (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Prof Yvonne Mcdermott Rees

Taught Modules

LA-366 Tort for Graduate Diploma in Law

The Law of Tort is a branch of the civil law which provides possible remedies for the protection of a person¿s interests in relation to different forms of loss which may be experienced as a result of different types of incident. Examples of loss considered in this module include physical damage to the body or to property, injury to reputation and injury caused by the condition of premises. In deciding whether there is liability in tort, the claimant is required to demonstrate that he was owed a duty by the defendant and it may be vital to determine the degree to which one side or the other was to blame for what happened. It may matter whether the defendant caused the injury deliberately, negligently, or there may be liability even though the person who has caused the damage was not to blame at all. While the law of tort in general is comprised of a number of distinct `torts¿, Law of Tort II is exclusively concerned with the tort of negligence. Negligence is numerically the most common and easily the most flexible in terms of the interests that it protects. Negligence is able to provide remedy in a number of situations including personal injury, psychiatric harm, property damage and economic loss. Law of Tort II will consider in detail all aspects of negligence from the inception of a claim to the eventual award of compensatory damages.
LAA227 Media Law

Media law is essentially comprised of the legal rules and principles able to and/or designed to regulate the transmission of information in all its forms. Traditionally, this area of law has been of relevance to the media (the press, television etc) and public figures, e.g. celebrities. However, the advert of the World Wide Web and the almost ubiquitous use of user generated content via social media has endowed media law which much greater significance to all sections of society. This course will consider a number of diverse legal instruments (law of tort, criminal law, regulatory law) derived from both the common law and statute.
LAA327 Media Law

Media law is essentially comprised of the legal rules and principles able to and/or designed to regulate the transmission of information in all its forms. Traditionally, this area of law has been of relevance to the media (the press, television etc) and public figures, e.g. celebrities. However, the advert of the World Wide Web and the almost ubiquitous use of user generated content via social media has endowed media law which much greater significance to all sections of society. This course will consider a number of diverse legal instruments (law of tort, criminal law, regulatory law) derived from both the common law and statute.
LAA328 Cybercrime

Cybercrime is any crime that involves a computer and a network. The computer may have been used in the commission of a crime, or it may be the target. This module will enable students to develop their understanding of the criminal law within this specific context, where a growing number of criminals are exploiting the accessibility and anonymity of the internet to participate in a varied range of criminal activity. The module will broadly be divided into three parts, namely: computer integrity offences (hacking, distribution of viruses etc); content related offences (legal control of pornography); and offences where a computer and/or the internet is capable of being utilized in the commission of an offence (online fraud, copyright infringement).
LAMM23 Crime in Cyberspace

From small scale fraud to the threat of a major cyber-terrorist attack, crime in cyberspace is an ever-growing subject of public concern and is rapidly becoming one of the preeminent priorities of government and policy makers. As such, the adequacy of criminal justice and non-legal responses to cybercrime is an issue of considerable importance. This module will examine the phenomenon of cybercrime from a criminological, legal and policy perspective. In particular, the module will consider the nature, scope and effects of crimes committed in cyberspace and evaluate the response of the international community, legislatures and law enforcement agencies to such crimes.
LAXM01 Transferred Credits

N/A

Dr Patrick Bishop

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About

Areas Of Expertise

Publications

Research Highlights

All Research

Journal Articles

Book Chapters

Edited Books

Other Research Outputs

Supervision

Cybersecurity Standards: Shifting regulatory theory from deterrence to regulatory mandated target hardening in critical industry. (current)

(In)visible Women: Experiences of and Responses to Gender-Based Online Harms (current)

Respecting Human Rights and the Rule of Law in cyberspace: The challenges posed by trans-border access to data in criminal cases (current)

Addressing Overcriminalisation : An alternative Perspective (current)

Taught Modules

LA-366 Tort for Graduate Diploma in Law

LAA227 Media Law

LAA327 Media Law

LAA328 Cybercrime

LAMM23 Crime in Cyberspace

LAXM01 Transferred Credits