Name: Danny Gough
PhD: Law
Thesis Title: The Privatisation of Violence and the Sovereign Power of Life: An Investigation Into Private Military and Security Contractors on Sovereignty and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Globalised World
Thesis Description:
An examination of the privatisation and externalisation of legitimate violence within a globalised world. Considering how violence coincides with power as the center piece to sovereignty and as a result consider how this effects democratic accountability and the social contract, in particular the state-centric human rights obligations.
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Publications (please include full details with page nos. or web links):
- "The Controversy of Clemency and Innocence in America" Sarah L Cooper & Daniel J Gough, California Western Law Review (Forthcoming 2014)
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Other Research Interests:
- Private Military and Security Contractors
- American Death Penalty Litigation
- International and Comparative Human Rights
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