David Rigg

David Rigg

Senior Lecturer

My profile

Biography

Before entering legal practice, I was awarded the Arts and Humanities Research Council Postgraduate Award for a Master’s Degree in Law. I was called to the Bar in 2007 and practiced from Chambers on the Northern Circuit undertaking a general common law practice, including conduct of Crown Court jury trials.

Specialisms

  • European Law
  • Public Law
  • Criminal Law
  • Legal Skills
  • Legal Education

Academic and professional qualifications

LLB (Hons) Law (University of Manchester)

LLM (University of Manchester)

Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn, call 2007)

Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

External examiner roles

External examiner for UWE Bristol and De Montford University.

Previously external examiner at The Open University and University of Derby.

Get in touch

0161 247 3081
6.01 Sandra Burslem Building

Teaching

Undergraduate courses

  • Course Leader for the Part Time LLB programme
  • Module Leader for EU Law and the UK (LLB)
  • Tutor for Public Law and Criminal Law (LLB)

Postgraduate teaching

  • Module Leader for Legal Skills and Practice (GDL)
  • Lecturer in European Law at University of Hong Kong SPACE (CPE programme delivered by MMU)
  • Tutor for the LLM European Migration and Asylum Law module

Research outputs

  • Reviewer and contributor to Oxford Dictionary of Law (10th Edition, OUP 2022). I have previously worked on the 7th, 8th and 9th editions of this title. 

Journal articles

Conferences

  • D. Rigg, Sit down and behave: challenging the all-seating narrative, Hampden Park, Glasgow, 29/11/2018.
  • D. Rigg, Time to Take a Stand? Tracing the development of the all-seater football stadium requirement in England and Wales and examining the case for change. University of Bristol, 27/3/2018.

  • Chapters in books

    Rigg, D. (2014) 'Oxford Dictionary of Law.' Oxford Dictionary of Law. Oxford University Press,

  • Journal articles

    Rigg, D. (2018) 'Time to take a stand? The law on all-seated stadiums in England and Wales and the case for change.' The International Sports Law Journal,

    Rigg, D. (2013) 'Embedding employability in assessment: searching for the balance between academic learning and skills development in law: a case study.' The Law Teacher, 47(3) pp. 404-420.

  • Conference papers

    Rigg, A. (2018) 'Sit down and behave: challenging the all-seating narrative.' In The Football Collective Annual Conference. Hampden Park, Glasgow, 29/11/2018 - 30/11/2018.

    Rigg, A.D. (2018) 'Time to Take a Stand? Tracing the development of the all-seater football stadium requirement in England and Wales and examining the case for change.' University of Bristol, 27/3/2018 - 29/3/2018.