Graeme Hayes is a professor of Political Sociology at Aston University in Birmingham. His teaching and research focus on environmental protest, civil disobedience, and the criminal trials of activists involved in disruptive non-violent direct action. His most recent books are Breaking Laws: Violence and Civil Disobedience in Protest (2019, with Isabelle Sommier and Sylvie Ollitrault) and La Désobéissance civile. He is a former editor of the journals Environmental Politics and Social Movement Studies.
