School of Law, Politics and Sociology

Academic faculty

Jeanette Ashton
Senior Lecturer

Giorgia Baldi
Lecturer in Law
gender studies, gender and religion

Paven Basuita
Lecturer in Law

Stephanie Berry
Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law
minority rights, migrant rights, freedom of religion or belief, international human rights law

Jo Bridgeman
Professor of Healthcare Law & Feminist Ethics
children medical treatment, responsibilities, public and private law

Qingxiu Bu
Reader in Global Law

Fiona Clements
Lecturer in Law
student well-being

Elizabeth Craig
Senior Lecturer
minority rights, League of Nations, minority mechanisms, minority rights monitoring, European minority rights, internalisation

Helen Dancer
Senior Lecturer in Law and Anthropology
forests, posthuman, earth law, ecological approaches, ecomusicology, legal anthropology

Mark Davies
Reader In Law
professions, conduct, ethics, negligence, higher education

Kieran Durcan
Senior Lecturer in Law

Moira Dustin
Lecturer
gender, migration, equality, human rights, multiculturalism, religion

Paul Eden
Senior Lecturer in Law

Hadir Elshafay
Lecturer in Citizenship and Education
citizenship, urban justice, urban governance, disability justice

Matthew Evans
Senior Lecturer in Law
human rights especially socioeconomic rights, transitional justice and transformative justice, advocacy networks, social movements, trade unions, interdisciplinarity and post-disciplinarity

Salvatore Fasciana
Lecturer in Law
copyright, video games, artificial intelligence, distributed ledger technology, virtual world, technology and society

Nuno Ferreira
Professor of Law
human rights; discrimination law; children's rights; LGBTIQ+ rights; asylum and refugee law; European law

Simon Flacks
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice
parental substance (mis)use, drugs, family justice

Shahrzad Fouladvand
Senior Lecturer in International Criminal Law
transnational crime, human traffiicking, modern slavery, money laundering, corruption, victims

Maria Frabboni
Senior Lecturer in Law
copyright, licensing, access, public interest

Matthew Garrod
Senior Lecturer in Law
international law jurisdiction, international crime, terrorism, counter-terrorism

Gianluca Gentili
Lecturer In Law

Ahmad Ghouri
Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law
international law, international investment law, global capitalism, law and political economy

Sabrina Gilani
Senior Lecturer in Law and Critical Theory
punishment, new materialism, posthumanism, socio-materiality, vital materialism

Richard Glover
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law
protest, criminal evidence, human rights, history

Andres Guadamuz
Reader In Intellectual PropertyLaw
copyright and artificial intelligence, blockchains, NFTs, smart contracts

Edward Guntrip
Senior Lecturer in International Law
international investment law, investment arbitration, international human rights law, deep seabed mining, outer space law

Sirko Harder
Reader in Law
choice of law contract, damages, foreign judgements, international jurisdiction, tort

Christian Henderson
Professor of International Law
use of force, self-defence, armed conflict, peace, collective security

Bonnie Holligan
Senior Lecturer in Law
environmental markets, property rights, carbon trading, biodiversity net gain, conservation covenants

Helena Howe
Senior Lecturer in Law
animals, farming, dogs breeding, earth

Pablo Iglesias-Rodriguez
Senior Lecturer in International Finance Law

Marianna Iliadou
Lecturer in Law
surrogacy, ECHR, reproductive rights, healthcare law, legal parenthood

John Jupp
Senior Lecturer in Law
terrorism, counter-terrorism, far-right extremism, legal development, Afganistan

Ioannis Katsaroumpas
Senior Lecturer in Employment Law

Ashleigh Keall
Lecturer in Law
religion, constitutional law, harm, equality, feminist legal theory

Heather Keating
Emeritus Professor

Tarik Kochi
Professor of Legal and Political Theory
authoritarian, populism, conspiracy theory

Mary Lee
School Tutor In Law

Darcy Leigh
Senior Lecturer
settler colonialism, far right, race, gender, sexuality, social movements

Phoebe Li
Professor in Law and Technology
technology regulation, artificial intelligence, intellectual property, patents, ethics and governance

Mary Frances Lukera
Lecturer in Law

Emily Lydgate
Professor of Environmental Law

William McCready
Senior Lecturer

Donald Mcgillivray
Professor of Environmental Law

Maria Moscati
Reader in Law and Society
dispute resolution, comparative legal studies (focus on kinship and family), children's rights, LGBTIQ+, reproductive and health cultures, dance/movement and the law, hormones and the law

Aisling O'Sullivan
Senior Lecturer in Law

Emanuela Orlando
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law
environment, corporate liability, due diligence, human rights

Tanya Palmer
Senior Lecturer
sexual offences, coercive control, sex work, criminal law, consent, sexual violation

Neil Partington
Senior Lecturer
negligence, sport coaching

Amir Paz-Fuchs
Professor of Law and Social Justice

Cath Senker
Lecturer in Academic Skills and Student
belonging, awarding gaps, institutional racism

Jessica Shurson
Lecturer in Law
digital surveillance, privacy, jurisdiction, evidence, cybercrime

Stephen Shute
Professor of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

Charlotte Skeet
Senior Lecturer in Law

Joanna Smallwood
Senior Lecturer in Law
biodiversity, rights of nature, international law and policy, implementation

Bal Sokhi-Bulley
Senior Lecturer in Law and Critical Theory
human rights, protest, citizenship, friendship, Foucault, decolonial approaches

Lindsay Stirton
Professor of Public Law
constitutionals, cultural theory, administrative justice, Commonwealth Caribbean

Ruth Stirton
Senior Lecturer in Healthcare LAw
healthcare law, regulation, intersectionality, human rights

Teresa Sutton
Senior Lecturer in Law

Erika Szyszczak
Emeritus Professor

Judith Townend
Reader in Digital Society and Justice
freedom of expression, access to information, open justice, data rights and governance, media and journalism policy

Kenneth Veitch
Senior Lecturer
healthcare law, contract and healthcare law, sociology of healthcare law, COVID contracts, social impact bonds, healthcare law and capitalism

Samantha Velluti
Reader in Law
external relations, social trade, human rights, migration/asylum, climate change

Richard Vogler
Emeritus Professor
criminal justice, due process, police, prosecution, courts

Mark Walters
Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology
hate crime, criminal law, criminal justice reform, policing, restorative justice

Lucy Welsh
Reader in Criminal Justice
criminal justice and procedure, access to justice, legal profession

Jo Wilding
Senior Lecturer in Law
legal aid, legal advice, social welfare law, immigration law

Jo Wilson
Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law
legal education, authentic assessment, engagement in the classroom

Julia Winstone
Associate Tutor
socio-legal, youth justice, restorative justice & teaching, criminal law, gender law, medical law & ethics