Professor Colin Munro
Tel: 0131 650 2047Fax: 0131 650 2005Email:
Colin.Munro@ed.ac.uk
Biographical Details
Professor Colin Munro was Professor of Constitutional Law from 1990 to 2009, when he relinquished full-time employment and became Professor Emeritus. He was a Dean of the Faculty of Law in the 1990s. He previously taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Durham, Essex and Manchester, where he was Professor of Law from 1985 to 1990. Colin Munro's principal interests are in constitutional and administrative law, human rights, media law, and aspects of criminal justice and legal philosophy. He serves as a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Public Law . Amongst other activities, he is an occasional consultant on parliamentary and other matters, and a contributor to newspapers and broadcasting, and since 2009 teaches on a part-time basis in Great Britain, at the Institute of Law in Jersey, and in the University of Hong Kong.
Selected Publications
Colin Munro 'Parliamentarians, privilege and prosecutions' (2011) Scots Law Times Colin Munro 'Members` Standards in the Scottish Parliament' (2007) Juridical Review Colin Munro 'A Jester's Licence? Comedy and Defamation Law' (2007) Scots Law Times Colin Munro 'Sex, Laws and Videotape: The R18 Category' (2006) Criminal Law Review Colin Munro 'When Criminals Sell their Stories' (2006) Public Law Colin Munro 'The Value of Commercial Speech' (2003) The Cambridge Law Journal Colin Munro 'Prior restraint of the Media and Human Rights Law' (2002) Juridical Review Colin Munro 'On racial grounds' (2001) Juridical Review Colin Munro 'Scottish Devolution: Accommodating a Restless Nation' (1999) International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Colin Munro 'Entitlement to Party Political Broadcast Broadcasting' (1998) Contemporary Issues in Law Vol. 3 Issue 2 pp.113-134 Colin Munro 'Does Scotland Have an Established Church?' (1997) Ecclesiastical Law Journal Vol. 4 pp. 639-645 Colin Munro 'Party Politics and the Broadcasters - Round Three' (1997) New Law Journal pp. 528-533 Colin Munro 'Self-regulation in the Media' (1997) Public Law Colin Munro 'Power to the People' (1997) Public Law
Colin Munro 'More Heat than Light from Anwar' (2009) Edinburgh Law Review Colin Munro 'Time Up for the Ban?' (2007) New Law Journal 886 Colin Munro 'Comment: Sports in the Courts' (2005) Public Law Colin Munro, Louis Blom-Cooper 'The Hutton Report' (2004) Public Law Colin Munro 'Not the Last Picture Show' (2003) Public Law Colin Munro 'When Racism is not Black and White' (2001) New Law Journal 313-314 Colin Munro 'Aspects of Privacy' (2001) Public Law Colin Munro 'Parliaments and clergy' (2001) Scots Law Times Colin Munro 'More Daylight, Less Magic' (2000) Public Law Colin Munro 'Privilege at Holyrood' (2000) Public Law Colin Munro 'The 1997 General Election and Media Law' (1997) Communications Law Vol. 2 pp.166-170 Colin Munro 'Photographs and Legality' (1997) Entertainment Law Review Vol. 8, pp.197-201 Colin Munro 'Fundamental Rights in National Law' (1997) Scots Law Times Colin Munro 'Challenging the Press Complaints Commission' (1996) Communications Law pp 177-178, Vol. 1 Colin Munro 'SNP v BBC' (1996) New Law Journal pp. 1433-1434
Related staff by research area:
Constitutional and Administrative Law
Media Law
