Clive Walker is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where he has served as the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies (1987‐2000) and as Head of School (2000‐2005, 2010). In addition to police law and human rights, key aspects of his research work are terrorism legislation and counter-terrorism policies and laws. He has written extensively on terrorism issues, with many published papers and books not only in the UK but also in several other jurisdictions, especially Australia, Malaysia, and the USA. In 2003, he was a special advisor to the UK Parliamentary select committee scrutinized what became the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, from which experience he published The Civil Contingencies Act 2004: Risk, Resilience and the Law in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press, 2006). His books on terrorism are recognized and cited widely and include Terrorism and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2011), The Anti‐Terrorism Legislation, (3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2014), and the Routledge Handbook of Law and Terrorism (Routledge, 2015). He has given evidence to many parliamentary inquiries (including in Canada and Australia) and has been appointed by the Home Office as Senior Adviser to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation (David Anderson QC) since 2010. For his work with public bodies, he received the title of Queen’s Counsel honoris causa in 2016.