Jacob Rowbottom
Professor of Law
Biography
Jacob Rowbottom is a Fellow of University College, Oxford, and Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. He holds a BA in Jurisprudence from Oxford and an LLM from New York University School of Law. He was previously a University Lecturer in Law and Fellow of King's College at the University of Cambridge. He is a qualified barrister and previously worked on the staff of an election campaign for the US Senate. His research interests include media law, freedom of expression and the legal regulation of the democratic process. He is the author of Democracy Distorted (2010) and Media Law.
Publications
Rowbottom J, “A Thumb on the Scale: Measures Short of a Prohibition to Combat Hate Speech” (2022) 14 Journal of Media Law 119
Rowbottom J, “Political Purposes, Anti-Entrenchment and Judicial Protection of the Democratic Process” (2021) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 383
Rowbottom J, “The Regulation of Third Party Campaigning in UK Elections” (2020) 91 Political Quarterly 722
Rowbottom J, “Reporting Police Investigations, Privacy Rights and Social Stigma: Richard V BBC” (2019) 10 Journal of Media Law 115
Rowbottom J, “Introduction” (2019) 11 Journal of Media Law 1
Rowbottom J, “The Transformation of Obscenity Law” (2017) 27 Information and Communications Technology Law 4
Rowbottom J, “Holding Back the Tide: Privacy Injunctions and the Digital Media” (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 177
Rowbottom J, “Government Speech and Public Opinion: Democracy by the Bootstraps” (2016) 25 Journal of Political Philosophy 22
Rowbottom J, “Corruption, Transparency and Reputation: The Role of Publicity in Regulating Political Donations” (2016) 75 Cambridge Law Journal 398
Rowbottom J, “Animal Defenders International: Speech, Spending, and a Change of Direction in Strasbourg” (2013) 5 Journal of Media Law 1
Rowbottom J, “TO RANT, VENT AND CONVERSE: PROTECTING LOW LEVEL DIGITAL SPEECH” (2012) 71 CAMBRIDGE LAW JOURNAL 355
Rowbottom J, “Lies, Manipulation and Elections-Controlling False Campaign Statements” (2012) 32 OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 507
Rowbottom J, “Review of K. Ewing, The Cost of Democracy” [2008] Public Law 617
Rowbottom J, “Political Advertising and the Broadcast Media” (2008) 67 Cambridge Law Journal 450
Rowbottom J, “Libel and the Public Interest” (2007) 66 Cambridge Law Journal 8
Rowbottom J, “The Ban on Political Advertising and Article 10” (2007) 18 Entertainment Law Review 91
Rowbottom J, “Review of Parker, Scott, Lacey and Braithewaite, Regulating Law” [2005] Public Law
Rowbottom J, “Review of Building the UK’s New Supreme Court” (2005) 64 Cambridge Law Journal 253
Rowbottom J, “Article 10 and Election Broadcasts” (2003) 119 Law Quarterly Review 553
Rowbottom J, “Homes for Votes, Bias and Political Purposes” (2002) 118 Law Quarterly Review 364
Rowbottom J, “Freedom of Speech in Election Broadcasts” (2002) 152 New Law Journal 679
ROWBOTTOM J, “In the Shadow of the Big Media: Freedom of Expression, Participation and the Production of Knowledge Online” Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10/2014
ROWBOTTOM J, “Positive Protection for Speech and Substantive Political Equality” in A Keynon and A Scott (eds.), Positive Free Speech: Rationales, Methods and Implications (Hart Publishing 2020)
ROWBOTTOM J, “Freedom of Expression and the Right to Vote: Political Rights and the Common Law Constitution” in M Elliott and K Hughes (eds.), Common Law Constitutional Rights (Hart Publishing 2020)
Rowbottom J, “Careful What You Wish for Press Criticism of the Legal Protection of Human Rights”, HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MEDIA: FEAR AND FETISH (2019)
Rowbottom J, “The Protection of Expression in the UK: Old Principles in a Digital World”, The Internet and Constitutional Law: The protection of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Adjudication in Europe (2016)
Rowbottom J, The Funding of Political Parties: Where Now? (K Ewing, J Rowbottom and J Tham eds., Routledge 2011)
Rowbottom J, “Terrorism Law and the Erosion of Free Speech in the UK”