People
A team of almost 200 teaching, research and support staff keep us at the forefront of legal and socio-legal education.
Our range of knowledge and experience makes us one of the biggest and most diverse law schools in the UK.
This means we can offer quality expertise and support to all our students, graduates and research connections.
Teaching and research staff
Carolyn Abbot
Professor
Research specialisms: environmental regulation, regulatory enforcement tools and practices, public participation, access to justice.
Orkun Akseli
Professor in Commercial Law
Research specialisms: secured transactions, corporate finance, arbitration and mediation, law reform and global lawmaking, sale of goods.
Neil Allen
Senior Lecturer (Law)
Research specialisms: mental health and incapacity law, Court of Protection, advocacy.
Eleanor Aspey
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: EU public procurement law, utilities procurement, inclusion of social and environmental policies in procurement.
Guy Baldwin
Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights
Vincenzo Bavoso
Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law
Research specialisms: corporate law, corporate governance, structured finance, financial regulation.
Becki Bennett
Professor of Bioethics
Research specialisms: diverse issues in bioethics.
Iain Brassington
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: bioethics, medical ethics, medical law, jurisprudence.
Dr Fiona Brimblecombe
Lecturer in Law
Research specialism: privacy, free expression, defamation, GDPR.
Nicolette Butler
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: international economic law, international commercial arbitration, trade and investment policy, investment and human rights.
Neil Cobb
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: criminal law, law, gender and sexuality, land law.
Alan Cunningham
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: law and IT, Intellectual Property (IP) law, copyright law, law and contemporary art, law and appropriation.
Margaret Cunningham
Senior Lecturer in Law
Amber Darr
Lecturer in Competition Law
Research specialisms: Competition Law, South Asia, Human Rights, Economic Inequality, sustainability, Institutional Design, Transnational Competition
Jean d’Aspremont
Chair in Public International Law
Research specialisms: statehood, sources of international law, state responsibility, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law of armed conflicts.
Sarah Devaney
Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Law and Regulation.
Research specialisms: regulation of emerging biotechnologies, regulation of professionals, regulation in the food supply chain.
Elaine Dewhurst
Senior Lecturer in Employment Law
Research specialisms: employment law, European law, human rights law, immigration law.
Dimitrios Doukas
Reader in EU Law
Research specialisms: European Union law, EU internal market and economic law, EU media and entertainment law, European and comparative public law.
Philip Drake
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: clinical law, legal ethics and social responsibility, accessory liability in equity for assistance in a breach of trust.
Lucy Frith
Reader in Bioethics
Research specialisms: Bioethics, social science, qualitative methods
Michael Galanis
Senior Lecturer in Company Law
Research specialisms: company law, corporate governance, securities regulation, law and economics.
Javier Garcia Oliva
Professor of Law
Research specialisms: law and religion/constitutional law, devolution, tribunals.
Fae Garland
Senior Lecturer in Socio-Legal Studies
Research specialisms: socio-legal studies, feminist legal theory, intersex rights and law, family law and gender studies.
Simona Giordano
Professor of Bioethics
Research specialisms: psychiatric ethics, bioethics eating disorders, gender identity.
Nicola Glover-Thomas
Professor of Law
Research specialisms: medical law, mental health law, private law, pharmaceuticals and law.
Luke Graham
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: Human Rights, Public Law, Poverty, Destitution, Clothing.
Christos Hajiarapas
Lecturer in Law
Ruby Hammer
Senior Lecturer in Law & Deputy Head of Law Department
Research specialisms: employers' liability and vicarious liability, legal education and pedagogy.
Phil Handler
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: criminal law, legal history.
Ashley Hannay
Lecturer in Property Law
Research specalisms: legal history; modern property law; trusts; uses.
John Haskell
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: sociology of expertise and idea production of governance across a number of regulatory/industry regimes.
Soren Holm
Professor of Bioethics
Research specialisms: health care ethics, bioethics, philosophy of medicine, intersection between bioethics and law.
Caroline Hoyle
Senior Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship)
Research specialisms: criminal and healthcare law.
Kirsty Keywood
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: medical law, gender and law, mental health law.
Aristea Koukiadaki
Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations & Head of Law Department
Research specialisms: empirical study of law, applied legal and policy analysis, labour regulation, corporate governance, EU social policy.
Ruth Lamont
Reader in Family and Child Law
Research specialisms: law relating to the family and children.
Joseph Lee
Reader in Corporate and Financial Law
Research Specialisms: AI, Fintech, Legal Tech.
Harriet Lipkin
Senior Lecturer (T&S) in Property Law
Research specialisms: land law, professional legal skills and mediation.
Gary Lynch-Wood
Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance
Research specialisms: rule-following and the impact on regulatory compliance and culture, age discrimination, corporate social responsibility.
Gail Lythgoe
Lecturer in International Law
Research specialisms: international law, international relations.
Claire Mcgourlay
Professor in Legal Education
Research specialisms: miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, criminal evidence.
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi
Lecturer in International Law
Research specialisms: counterterrorism, public international law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, and (international and European) criminal law.
Victoria Moore
Lecturer in Healthcare Law
Research Specialisms: healthcare law and regulation, patient safety.
Alexandra Mullock
Senior Lecturer in Medical Law
Research specialisms: end-of-life law, the legitimacy of ethically contentious medical interventions, regulation of health care professionals via the criminal law, law and ethics of cosmetic surgery.
Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu
Professor in Law
Research specialisms: theories and practice of international trade law, public international law, intellectual property rights law, investment law, international development law.
Annette Nordhausen Scholes
Lecturer In Law
Research specialisms: consumer law, internet law, commercial law, financial services law, private international law, European private law, European contract law.
Racheal Ntongho
Lecturer in Law
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: the legal protection of emerging health (including assisted reproductive) technologies, comparative patent law.
Pinar Oruc
Lecturer in Commercial Law
Research specialisms: intellectual property law, especially copyright, and its intersection with technology, cultural property law, art law and Indigenous rights.
Geoff Pearson
Professor of Law
Research specialisms: policing, human rights, sports law, crowd behaviour and management, football ‘hooliganism’, ethnography.
Mark Josef Rapa
Lecturer in Bioethics
Iain Scobbie
Chair in International Law
Research specialisms: public international law, law, human rights, and peace building in the Middle East.
Graham Smith
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: police misconduct and legal remedies, police accountability, combating impunity for human rights abuse.
Siobhan Smith
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: international humanitarian law, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Right To Education
Catherine Stanton
Lecturer in Medical Law and Bioethics
Research specialisms: healthcare and criminal law, legal and ethical issues relating to the use of genetic information within the family.
Robert Thomas
Professor of Public Law
Research specialisms: administrative justice and rule-making, law and public policy implementation, administrative accountability, asylum and immigration law.
Chris Thornhill
Professor in Law
Research specialisms: Sociology of Law; Comparative Constitutional Law; Law and Social Theory; Legal History.
Research specialisms: equity and trusts, land law, property law, legal skills, legal education.
Joanne Urmtson
Lecturer in Law
Fintan Walker
Lecturer in Clinical Legal Education
Abubhakri Yenkini
Lecturer in Conflict of Law
Research Specialisms: jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments; private International law and AfCFTA.
Emeritus Professors
John Birds
Emeritus Professor
Margot Brazier
Emeritus Professor
Thomas Gibbons
Emeritus Professor
Neville Harris
Emeritus Professor of Law
Joseph Jaconelli
Emeritus Professor
Anthony Ogus
Emeritus Professor of Law
Howard Parker
Emeritus Professor
Asif Qureshi
Emeritus Professor
Frank Stephen
Emeritus Professor of Regulation
Honorary staff
Gillian Brailley
Honorary Lecturer (Teaching & Research)
Sarah-Jane Brown
Honorary Research Fellow
Hazel Carty
Honorary Reader
Nicola Chadwick
Honorary Lecturer
Kathryn Downs
Honorary Lecturer (Teaching & Research)
Alistair Maiden
Honorary Professor
Nogar Ofer
Honorary Research Fellow
Tunde Okewale
Honorary Lecturer (Teaching and Research)
Malcolm Oswald
Honorary Research Fellow
Elena Pineros
Honorary Research Fellow
Maria Smirnova
Honorary Research Fellow
Mary Vogel
Honorary Professor
David Williamson
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
