About
David Horton was appointed Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice in August 2014. Prior to joining the School, David earned his LLB at the University of Sheffield (2003), MA at the University of Manchester (2004) and PhD at the University of Manchester (2014). He was appointed to Senior Lecturer in March 2023.
David's research engages regulation studies. The context for his research includes health care regulation, social security provision and accountability. He has published in leading generalist journals within these areas, such as Regulation & Governance and Journal of Law and Society. He published a monograph in 2019 with Hart Publishing titled Mental Health Homicide and Society: Understanding Health Care Governance. He is currently working on a second monograph.
David teaches on the Law of Tort module (UG), Medical Law I module (UG) and is the sole designer and deliverer of Regulation, Health and Welfare on the LLM programme (PG).
David is open to supervising doctoral candidates in the field of the welfare state and regulation.