Senior Lecturer
LLB (Queens), LLM (Essex)

Email: peter.cumper@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2653

Peter Cumper has taught in the Department since 1997. His main research interests are in the areas of Human Rights law, and Constitutional law. In 2005 he was awarded a University of Leicester Teaching Fellowship.

Research Interests

Constitutional law; law and religion; freedom of expression.

Selected Publications

• 'Public Reason', Judicial Deference and the right to Freedom of Religion and Belief under the Human Rights Act 1998" with T. Lewis (2011) Kings Law Journal 22(2) 131-156.
  
• Cumper, P., with Lewis T., "Last Rites and Human Rights: Funeral Pyres and Religious Freedom in the United Kingdom", (2010) 12 Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 131-151.
• ‘Taking religion seriously’? Human Rights and Hijab in Europe − some problems of adjudication’, with Lewis T., (2009) Journal of Law and Religion, 599-628.
• “Balancing Freedom of Political Expression against Equality of Political Opportunity: the Courts and the UK Broadcasting Ban on Political Advertising”, with Tom Lewis, Public Law , 2009, 89-111.
• “Freedom of Religion and Belief”, in Harris, O’Boyle, Warbrick, Bates and Buckley, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights [OUP, 2009] at 425-442.
• “Muslims, Counter-Terrorism, and Human Rights in the UK”, with PW Edge in Basic N and Siddiqui, AH, Rethinking Global Terrorism (Islamabad, 2009) at 315-342.
• “The accommodation of ‘uncontroversial’ religious practices” in Leonon, T, and Goldschmidt, J, Religious Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe: Where to Draw the Line? [Intersentia, 2007] at 195-210.
• “Inciting religious hatred – balancing free speech and religious sensibilities in a multi-faith society”, in Ghanea, N., Stephens A, and Walden R. (eds) Does God Believe in Human Rights: Essays on Religion and Human Rights [Martinus Nijhoff, 2007] at 233-258.
• “The UK and the UN Declaration on the Elimination of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief”, (2007) (1) Emory International Law Review , 13-41.
• “The Financial Ombudsman Service and Disputes involving ‘wider implications’ issues”, with H. McVea, [2007] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 275-294.
• ‘‘Let’s talk about sex’ – balancing children’s rights and parental responsibilities’, (2006) 26(1) Legal Studies 88-108.