 | Dr Phil Hadfield is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Leeds, and author of Nightlife and Crime: Social Order and Governance in International Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2009 and Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities, Oxford University Press, 2006 (winner of the Hart Early Career Book Prize 2007) |
Thursday 15 October 2009, 6.30pm Leeds
Rethinking Freedom in the age of health and safety
Nightlife and Crime: Social Order and Governance in International Perspective (OUP, 2009)
Bar Wars: Contesting the Night in Contemporary British Cities (OUP, 2006)
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
