Alan Hunt was formerly the Chancellor's Professor of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

and

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

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. He had a B.A. Hons. in Sociology; LL.B.; Ph.D. in Sociology (

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

, UK). His main fields of research interests included legal theory, sociology of law, the relationship between legal and social theory, social regulation and the way in which law interacts with other forms of control, with a particular interest in the regulation of consumption (e.g. alcohol, tobacco, etc.). He researched the relationship between moral and legal regulation with particular reference to the control of sexuality, prostitution and pornography. In addition, he was the founding chair of the Critical Legal Conference.

Books

* ''Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999. * ''Governance of the Consuming Passions: A History of Sumptuary Regulation'', Macmillan, London, 1996. * ''Foucault and Law: Towards a New Sociology of Law as Governance'' (with Gary Wickham), Westview Press, Boulder, Co., 1994.

References

Living people Alumni of the University of Leeds Canadian legal scholars Canadian sociologists 1942 births {{Canada-sociologist-stub