Profile of Dr Osian Rees

Name:

Dr Osian Rees

Position:

Lecturer in Law

Email:

o.rees@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

Athrolys, College Road

Phone:

01248 383217

Academic qualifications

Postgraduate

PhD, 2007. The Children’s Commissioner for Wales: an evaluation, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (funded by a full Economic and Social Research Council studentship)

Undergraduate

LLB (First Class Honours) (2001) University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Awarded a number of Examinations Prizes, including the Sir Samuel Evans Prize for best law finals within the University of Wales (joint award); the Sweet & Maxwell Law Prize for highest overall average in finals examinations; the Calcott Pryce Finals Prize for excellence in the honours examinations; the Jane Morgan Prize for best achievement in a socio-legal field; and a number of Calcott Pryce Subject Prizes.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Family Property and Succession (module leader)
Land Law (module leader)
Dissertation (module co-ordinator)
Family and Welfare Law (module leader)

Postgraduate

The Legal Regulation of Health and Social Care in Wales

Administrative responsibilities

Dr Rees is the School of Law Examinations Officer

Areas of research expertise

Children’s commissioners
Devolution and Welsh law
Family and child law

Continuing Professional Development

Dr Rees has presented a number of Continuing Professional Development sessions for the legal profession on the subjects of devolution in Wales and family and child law in Wales. These include sessions undertaken on behalf of Advance CPD and the Wales and Chester Circuit.

Selected conference and seminar papers

1. A Decade of Devolution in Wales, Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Keele (2009)

2. Devolution and the development of family law in Wales, Wales and Chester Circuit Family Conference, Cardiff Bay (2008)

3. The Children’s Commissioner for Wales: The Way Forward, Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs, Bangor University (2008) (by invitation)

4. Exploring the impact of the Government of Wales Act 2006, Glamorgan University (2007) (panelist) (by invitation)

5. The Children’s Commissioner for Wales: What is he for?, Department of Childhood Studies Seminar series, Swansea University (2006) (by invitation)

6. The Children’s Commissioner for Wales and Non-Devolved Matters, Legal Wales Conference, Cardiff (2005)

7. Children’s Rights in Wales: A New Dawn?, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Aberystwyth (2002)

Articles

1. Rees, O. 'Dealing with individual cases: an essential role for national human rights institutions for children?' (2010) 18 International Journal of Children's Rights 417

2. Rees, O. 'Devolution and the Children's Commissioner for Wales: challenges and opportunities' (2010) 23 Contemporary Wales 52

3. Rees, O. 'Family and child law in Wales: recent developments [2010] Family Law 186

4. Rees, O. ‘Devolution and the development of family law in Wales’ [2008] Child and Family Law Quarterly 45

5. Rees, O. ‘The Children’s Commissioner for Wales: the first five years’ (2006) 226 childRIGHT 16

6. Rees, O. Making a crisis out of a drama? A commentary on the Clywch examination’ (2005) 4 Wales Journal of Law and Policy 67

7. Rees, O. Beyond the hype – a year in the life of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ [2002] Family Law 748

Reports and funded research

1. Borland, J., Griffiths, A. and Rees, O. (2009) Responding to discrimination: the geography and geometry of advice provision in England, Scotland and Wales, London: Equality and Human Rights Commission

The Report is available online at: http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/uploaded_files/responding_to_discrimination.pdf

2. Rees, O. (2007) Recommendations for strengthening the powers and functions of the Children’s Commissioner for Wales.

The report is available online as an attachment to a Children’s Commissioner for Wales Welsh Assembly Government consultation response at:
http://www.assemblywales.org/vc7_-_children_s_commissioner_for_wales.pdf

3. Rees, O. (2007) The impact of the National Assembly on the Development of Family Law in Wales, North Wales Family Justice Council.

The findings of the research are set out in Rees, O. ‘Devolution and the development of family law in Wales’ [2008] Child and Family Law Quarterly 45 .