Barry Wright
Professor
Political Science
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Barry Wright is a Professor of Law, History, and Criminology at Carleton University. He has been a faculty member at Carleton since 1986, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (1993-4) and is a regular academic visitor at T.C. Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. His teaching and research areas include legal history, criminal and constitutional law, and legal, political and social theory. His research focuses on 19th century criminal law reform, comparative 19th century British colonial legal history as well as political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history. His most recent books include Codification, Macaulay and the India Penal Code: The Legacies and Modern Challenges of Criminal Law Reform, co-edited with Stanley Yeo and Wing-Cheong Chan (Ashgate UK, 2011) and Canadian State Trials Volume VI: Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939, co-edited with Eric Tucker and Susan Binnie, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015).
Research Interest
His research focuses on 19th century criminal law reform, comparative 19th century British colonial legal history as well as political trials and the administration of national security measures in Canadian history.
