Dr Stefan Machura - Other activities

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Conference Contributions etc

26 April 2012, presentation of a staff survey on inter- and intra-agency cooperation to the Gwynedd and Môn Local Safeguarding Children Board, Llangefni.

17-18 April 2012, paper presentation “Safeguarding Children: Inter- and Intra-agency Cooperation in Gwynedd and Môn” at the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice Third Annual Conference.

28-29 March 2012, organised and participated in a roundtable “Retreat from Local Justice? ‒ The Effect of Cuts and Reorganisations on Wales“, and also presented a paper “Safeguarding Children: A Staff Survey in North Wales” on the panel “Children and Education in Wales”, WISERD Conference “Changing Wales: Social Economic and Political Perspectives” at Bangor University.

23 February 2012, invited lecture on “Legitimacy” at a network meeting “Private Macht und privatrechtliche Gestaltungsfreiheit”, Centre of European Law and Politics, Bremen University.

6-7 December 2011, paper presentation "The Critical Potential of Sociology of Law" at a conference on the reform of lawyers' education organised by the Volkswagen Stiftung at the Oberlandesgericht Celle, Germany. Participation at the follow-up conference in Berlin, 23-24 February 2012.

1-3 September 2011: Presentation about the effects of studying law on students’ opinion of the courts and the police and moderating the concluding plenum, conference “Der Kampf ums Recht”, Vienna. Member of the Programme Committee.

22 July 2011: Talk on “Lay Judges in Civil Tribunals” at the Third European Lay Judge Forum in London (organised by the Magistrates Association, the European Academy Berlin, and the German Association of Lay Judges).

29 June 2011: Paper presentation "Police and Courts - Experiences and Perceptions" at the WISERD Summer Conference "Changing Wales: Social, Economic and Political Perspectives" in Swansea.

27 June 2011: Talk on "Lay Judges in German Mixed Courts - Conflict and Cooperation" at the Max-Planck-Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn.

11 to 12 May 2011: Paper presentation "Police and Courts - Experiences and Perceptions" at the Welsh Centre for Crime and Social Justice Conference at Gregynog.

3-5 March 2011, invited presentation at the world jury systems panel, 4th International Congress of Psychology and Law (held in conjunction with the annual meetings of the American Psychology-Law Society) in Miami.

11-15 October 2010: attended the German Sociology Congress in Frankfurt at the Main and presented a paper with research results on public trust in the North Wales Police and a paper on New Public Management at British universities. He also co-organised and chaired a session on the public image of the law.

2 and 3 September 2010: presentation "Leadership and Trust in Institutions: The Case of the Chief Constable of North Wales Police" and lunch talk "Comparing Criminology and Sociology in the UK and Germany" at the institut for kriminologi og rettssosiologi, University of Oslo.

15 July 2010, invited speaker at the “Summer Institute of International & Comparative Law” in Paris, cosponsored by Cornell Law School and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Topic "The German Criminal Procedure: The Use of Lay Assessors and Expert Witnesses."

14 July 2010, paper presented at the British Society of Criminology Conference 2010, University of Leicester. Title of paper: “How the Media and Experience Influence Trust in the Courts and the Police – A Comparison of Law and Language Students at Bangor University” (authored with Nelson Ramos, Torie Rooney, and Shanna Warmald).

29 May 2010, paper “German TV Judge Shows”, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago/Illinois.

30 October 2009, paper “Media Influence on the Perception of the Legal System” for the Workshop “Impacts of German Sociology of Law for the Scandinavian Discussion”, University of Oslo.

30 June 2009, paper presented at the British Society of Criminology Conference 2009, Cardiff University. Title of paper: “Speeding, the Chief Constable and Trust in North Wales Police” (with Iain Dalton et al). http://www.britsoccrim.org/volume9/6.Dalton09.pdf.

29 May 2009, paper presentation “German Day Time TV-Judges and Other German Law Shows” at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Denver, Colorado.

8 May 2009, lecture on “Law in Film” at the Faculty of Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

6 April 2009, presentation “Legitimation by Procedure and Beyond” at the Welsh Criminology Conference, Gregynog.

6 March 2009, paper presentation on jury courts and mixed courts at the Institut für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie, Vienna. http://www.irks.at/downloads/wp_10.pdf.

23 February 2009, invited lecture “Legitimation by Procedure and Beyond” at the institut for kriminologi og rettssosiologi, University of Oslo.

5 November 2008, paper presentation “Law and Cinema Movement” at the Socio-Legal Studies Association conference “Socio-Legal Studies and the Humanities”, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.

4 September 2008, opening address at the Swiss-Austrian-German congress “Wie wirkt Recht?”, University Luzern. Served as member of the programme committee. On 6 September presentation “How Do the Germans Experience the Law?”

26 August 2008, paper presentation on international research on lay judges at the Berlin-Brandenburg Justice Academy, Königs Wusterhausen, seminar “Richter ohne Robe – Rolle und Bedeutung ehrenamtlicher Richter”.

10 July 2008, paper presented with Natasha Heenan at the British Society of Criminology Conference 2008, University of Huddersfield. Title of paper: “Trust in Police Community Support Officers: the View of Bangor Students”: http://www.britsoccrim.org/v8.htm.

27 June 2008, presentation “German Visual Legal Culture: the Cultural Significance of TV Court Shows” at the Association of Modern German Studies conference “Word, Image and Sound: Intermediality in German cultural discouse” in Bangor.

29 May - 1 June 2008, presented paper at the Joint Meeting of the Law and Society Association with the Canadian Law and Society Association in Montreal, Canada, “Learning about Law in German Schools” (co-authored with Annette Kammertöns). Participation at a roundtable “Research Questions for Cross-National Comparisons of Citizen Participation”.

25 October 2007, invited lecture on “Popular Legal Culture: What Do Germans Learn About Law?” at Keele University, School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and Social Work.

20 September 2007, presented paper “Influences of Film and TV on the Perception of Lawyers and Courts” at the British Society of Criminology Conference.

Member of Programme Committee and the Local Organization Committee for the Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association (LSA) and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL of ISA) at the Humboldt University, Berlin, 25-28 July 2007. Presented a paper “The Influence of Political Parties on Courts”. Discussant at the Author Meets Reader panel for “Justice in Lueritz: A History of Law in East Germany" by Inga Markovits. Organized a full cinema day with screenings of law-related movies.

24 July 2007, paper on “Lay Assessors of German Administrative Courts: Fairness, Power-Distance Orientation, and Deliberation Activity” presented at the European Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (EuroJELS), sponsored by Cornell University/Humboldt University Berlin.

11 July 2007, invited speaker at the “Summer Institute of International & Comparative Law” in Paris, cosponsored by Cornell Law School and the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Topic "The German Criminal Procedure: The Use of Lay Assessors and Expert Witnesses."

Functions as Editor

Co-editor working paper series “Menai Papers.”

Journal co-editor "Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie. The German Journal of Law and Society", currently main editor.

Co-editor book series “Gesellschaft und Recht”, Lit Verlag.

Functions in Academic Associations

Committee member of the Vereinigung für Recht und Gesellschaft.

Since 1998 Committee member of the Sociology of Law Section of the German Sociological Association.

Other Teaching Experience

In 2001 and 2006 visiting scholar at the State University of Rostow-on-Don (Russia).

1992-2006 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Private Lecturer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

2003 Guest Lecturer, Deutsche Hochschule für Verwaltungswissenschaft, Speyer.

1999-2001 Guest Professor, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain.

11-15 April 2011, Erasmus Exchange Lecturer at the University of East Finland (Kuopio). Taught a course "Crime and the Media"