Dr. Geoff Pearson

Biography

Geoff Pearson is a Professor of Law at the University of Manchester specializing in legal responses to football crowd violence and disorder, commonly known as hooliganism. He graduated with an LL.B from the University of Lancaster in 1995 and completed his PhD, titled 'Legal Responses to Football Crowd Disorder', under the supervision of Professor Michael Salter, obtaining his doctorate in 1999. Since then, Geoff has held various academic positions, including Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and Programme Director for the MBA Football Industries programme from 2003 to 2014. Joining the University of Manchester in 2015, he became the Academic Director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership and was appointed Professor of Law in 2020. His research focuses on the impact of legislation and policing strategies on football-related violence, investigating human rights issues and the effectiveness of policing practices. He has advised various organizations, including the UK Home Office and UEFA, and is the author of several influential books in the field. Geoff has also contributed to significant ethnographic studies and held a principal investigator role in a FIFPro-funded project examining labour conditions of professional football players worldwide.

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