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
Abubakri Yekini
Lecturer in Conflict of Law
Research Specialisms: jurisdiction and enforcement of foreign judgments; private International law and AfCFTA.
Alan Cunningham
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: law and IT, Intellectual Property (IP) law, copyright law, law and contemporary art, law and appropriation.
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.
Amanda Odell-West
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: the legal protection of emerging health (including assisted reproductive) technologies, comparative patent law.
Amber Darr
Lecturer in Competition Law
Research specialisms: Competition Law, South Asia, Human Rights, Economic Inequality, sustainability, Institutional Design, Transnational Competition.
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.
Aristea Koukiadaki
Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Research specialisms: empirical study of law, applied legal and policy analysis, labour regulation, corporate governance, EU social policy.
Ashley Hannay
Lecturer in Property Law
Research specialisms: legal history; modern property law; trusts; uses.
Becki Bennett
Professor of Bioethics
Research specialisms: diverse issues in bioethics.
Carolyn Abbot
Professor
Research specialisms: environmental regulation, regulatory enforcement tools and practices, public participation, access to justice.
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.
Claire Mcgourlay
Professor in Legal Education
Research specialisms: miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, criminal evidence.
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.
Elaine Dewhurst
Senior Lecturer in Employment Law
Research specialisms: employment law, European law, human rights law, immigration law.
Eleanor Aspey
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: EU public procurement law, utilities procurement, inclusion of social and environmental policies in procurement.
Emily Gordon
Lecturer in Law
Emma Nyhan
Lecturer in Law
Emma Scali
Lecturer in Law
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.
Fintan Walker
Lecturer in Clinical Legal Education
Fiona Brimblecombe
Lecturer in Law
Research specialism: privacy, free expression, defamation, GDPR.
Fiona Lakareber
Lecturer in Law
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.
Geoff Pearson
Professor of Law
Research specialisms: policing, human rights, sports law, crowd behaviour and management, football ‘hooliganism’, ethnography.
Geraint Howells
Professor
Gillian Ulph
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: equity and trusts, land law, property law, legal skills, legal education.
Guy Baldwin
Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights
Helen Rodway
Lecturer in Law
Iain Brassington
Professor
Research specialisms: bioethics, medical ethics, medical law, jurisprudence.
Iain Scobbie
Chair in International Law
Research specialisms: public international law, law, human rights, and peace building in the Middle East.
Jack Kenny
Lecturer in Law
Javier Garcia Oliva
Head of Department, Professor of Law
Research specialisms: law and religion/constitutional law, devolution, tribunals.
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.
Jenny Gibbons
Lecturer in Law
Joanne Urmtson
Lecturer in Law
John Haskell
Professor in Law
Research specialisms: sociology of expertise and idea production of governance across a number of regulatory/industry regimes.
John Picton
Reader in Law and Deputy Head of Law Department
Joseph Lee
Reader in Corporate and Financial Law
Research Specialisms: AI, Fintech, Legal Tech.
Justina Uriburu
Lecturer in Law
Kirsty Keywood
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: medical law, gender and law, mental health law.
Kyriaki Vassiliou
Lecturer in Law
Lewis Graham
Lecturer in Law
Lucy Frith
Professor in Bioethics
Research specialisms: Bioethics, social science, qualitative methods.
Luke Graham
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: Human Rights, Public Law, Poverty, Destitution, Clothing.
Margaret Cunningham
Senior Lecturer in Law
Michael Galanis
Senior Lecturer in Company Law
Research specialisms: company law, corporate governance, securities regulation, law and economics.
Naomi Lumsdaine
Lecturer in Law
Neil Allen
Senior Lecturer (Law)
Research specialisms: mental health and incapacity law, Court of Protection, advocacy.
Neil Cobb
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: criminal law, law, gender and sexuality, land law.
Nicola Glover-Thomas
Professor of Law
Research specialisms: medical law, mental health law, private law, pharmaceuticals and law.
Nicolette Butler
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: international economic law, international commercial arbitration, trade and investment policy, investment and human rights.
Niyoosha Shishehgar
Lecturer in Law
Orkun Akseli
Professor in Commercial Law
Research specialisms: secured transactions, corporate finance, arbitration and mediation, law reform and global lawmaking, sale of goods.
Parveen Morris
Lecturer in Law
Petra Larsen
Teaching Associate
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.
Phil Handler
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: criminal law, legal history.
Philip Drake
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: clinical law, legal ethics and social responsibility, accessory liability in equity for assistance in a breach of trust.
Plamen Dinev
Lecturer in Law
Qinqing Xu
Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law
Rachael Ntongho
Lecturer in Law
Rahaf Al Shneikat
Teaching Associate in Law
Ricardo Buendia
Lecturer in Law
Robert Thomas
Professor of Public Law
Research specialisms: administrative justice and rule-making, law and public policy implementation, administrative accountability, asylum and immigration law.
Ruby Hammer
Senior Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: employers' liability and vicarious liability, legal education and pedagogy.
Ruth Lamont
Reader in Family and Child Law
Research specialisms: law relating to the family and children.
Sarah Devaney
Professor in Healthcare Law and Regulation.
Research specialisms: regulation of emerging biotechnologies, regulation of professionals, regulation in the food supply chain.
Shiling Xiao
Lecturer in Law
Research specialisms: constitutional law, administrative law, and comparative law.
Simona Giordano
Professor of Bioethics
Research specialisms: psychiatric ethics, bioethics eating disorders, gender identity.
Soren Holm
Professor of Bioethics
Research specialisms: health care ethics, bioethics, philosophy of medicine, intersection between bioethics and law.
Suzanne Gower
Lecturer in Law
Victoria Moore
Lecturer in Healthcare Law
Research Specialisms: healthcare law and regulation, patient safety.
Vincenzo Bavoso
Professor in Commercial Law
Research specialisms: corporate law, corporate governance, structured finance, financial regulation.
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.
Yusra Suedi
Lecturer in International Law
