Law

Dr Ben Adodo

• Sale of goods transactions and law of agency
• The mechanics of International sales contract
• Marine insurance law
• Carriage of goods by sea (charterparties and bills of lading)
• Banking law
• International banking law, including interbank electronic funds transfer
• Conflict of Laws (private international law), International commercial litigations and enforcement of foreign judgments 

Dr Adaeze Aniodoh

• International investment law

Dr Rufat Babayev

• Contract law (human rights aspects)

Tony Cole

• Company, commercial and financial law

Dr Tom Egbe

• Maritime Law
• International Carriage of Goods by Sea
• International Sale of Goods 

Professor Peter Jaffey

• Corporate law
• Corporate governance
• Trusts and equity

Edward Jones

• Professional regulation

Dr Navajyoti Samanta

• Comparative corporate governance
• Financial market growth and development
• Leximetrics
• Company law

Dr Constantina Sampani

• International Trade and Transport of Goods (by sea)
• Interest in: Corporate Governance

Dr Paolo Vargiu

• International commercial law
• International economic law
• International investment law

Dr Jing Wang

• Competition law and policy in traditional and digital markets
• International and comparative law

Dr Horace Yeung

• Company law
• Commercial law
• Financial law
• Comparative corporate governance

Dr Ed Bates

• Constitutional law (human rights protection in UK law)

Professor Peter Cumper

• Constitutional law (UK Parliament and UK constitutional reform)

Professor Loveday Hodson

• Administrative and public law
• Constitutional law

Dr Marc Loureiro

• Colonial law 
• Colonial legal history 
• Citizenship and nationality law 
• Comparative citizenship law 
• Decolonial Legal Studies
• Comparative constitutional law
• Constitutional theory 
• Constitutional rights theory 

Dr Nauman Reayat

• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Judicial Independence
• Rule of Law
• Judicial Review
• Judicialisation of Politics
• The Global South and Developing Democracies. 

Dr Amal Sethi

• UK Constitutional and Administrative Law (institutional design, constitutional reform, courts, judicial review, and devolution)
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• European Constitutional Law
• Constitutional Theory

Professor Paul Almond

• Criminal law
• Criminal justice
• Criminology

Dr Daniel Bansal

• Criminal law; including theory, doctrine, and comparative criminal law

Dr Melissa Bone

• Criminology (especially in the area of drug policy)
• Criminal justice

Dr Tracey Elliott

• Criminal law

Sarah Jane Fox

• Policing/Criminology/Crime and Criminal/related police Laws and Policies including organised crime, cyber crime; cross border elements and data sharing
• Security and Terrorism: particularly related to transport (e.g. aviation and 9/11) and space, cyber, and open spaces

Dr Jonathan W Hak KC

• Criminal law
• Evidence
• Image-based evidence
• The Application of forensic sciences to criminal investigations

• Criminal justice
• Criminal law

Professor Carole McCartney

• Criminal justice
• Criminal evidence
• Miscarriages of justice
• Forensic science

Dr Charlotte Walsh

• Criminology

Masood Ahmed

• Alternative dispute resolution (in particular mediation)
• Arbitration law (international and commercial arbitration, including theoretical aspects)

Dr Adaeze Aniodoh

• Alternative Methods of Dispute resolution

Tony Cole

• Dispute resolution (including conflicts of laws)
• Socio-legal studies, including criminal law and justice - relating to arbitration

Professor Pablo Cortes

• Consumer redress
• Online Dispute Resolution
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, Ombudsman Schemes)
• Comparative civil litigation (class actions, small claims, etc)

Dr Carla Crifo

• Civil litigation
• International law (private), including conflict of laws

Dr Simran Kalra

• Alternative dispute resolution

Dr Constantina Sampani

• Alternative Dispute Resolution (arbitration, mediation)
• Online dispute resolution
• The impact of anthropological and socio-legal aspects on judicial mechanisms for dispute resolution
• Commercial and Maritime Alternative Dispute Resolution

Dr Paolo Vargiu

• Alternative dispute resolution
• Arbitration law

Pascale Lorber

• Employment law
• Collective representation of workers and voices at work
• Equality law in the workplace
• International, European and comparative employment law

Dr Lisa Rodgers

• Employment law
• Employment status and precarious work
• Theoretical approaches to employment and labour law
• Equality, discrimination and inclusion in the workplace
• Health and safety in the workplace.

Dr Oxana Golynker

• Employment law
• Reconciliation of work and family life
• Equality, discrimination and inclusion in the workplace
• Industrial action
• Human rights in employment context

Dr Olalekan Bello

• Energy, Oil and Gas Investment Law
• Environmental Climate Change and Sustainability law
• Environmental Rights and Justice in Energy Frontiers
• Transboundary Movement of Waste

Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo

• International environmental law
• Public participation in environmental decision making (particularly with regards to black women's participation)
• Human right to food
• Human right to a clean and healthy environment

Dr Rufat Babayev

• EU Law (internal market law and conflict of laws)
• Human rights

Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella

• Equality (in particular Gender) and the Law - Work/Life Balance, Family and Child Law, Caring and the Law 

Professor Adam Cygan

• EU Brexit law

Dr Alan Desmond

• Protection of migrants in European human rights law
• EU immigration and asylum law
• Free movement of persons

Dr Sarah Jane Fox

• Mobility and transport (aviation/UAV’), Communications, and Energy
• Space (defence and European Space Agency)
• Migration, Home affairs, and Rights

Dr Oxana Golynker

• Employment law
• EU law 

Edward Jones

• Employment law (especially regulation of dismissals)

Pascale Lorber

• Employment law (national, European, international and comparative)

Professor Carlo Panara

• The subnational dimension of the EU
• Multilevel governance and subsidiarity
• Foreign and Security Policy of the EU

• Employment law
• EU law (labour law, social rights)
• Human rights (labour law, social rights)

Professor Bernard Ryan

• Immigration law, nationality law and asylum law

Dr Amal Sethi

• European Constitutional Law
• European Human Rights Law

Dr Ewa Zelazna

• EU law, EU constitutional law,
• EU external relations law

Professor Katja Ziegler

• EU law (human rights, interaction of legal orders, multilevel constitutionalism

Dr Rufat Babayev

• Economic rights

Dr Onder Bakircioglu

• International human rights law

Dr Ed Bates

• Constitutional law (human rights protection in UK law)
• Human Rights and Civil Liberties (Law of the ECHR; legal regime of ECHR; human rights protection in UK law)

Dr Olalekan Bello

• International human rights law and theory, especially environmental rights and justice

Ruth Brittle

• International human rights law

Dr Maribel Canto-Lopez

• Human Rights and Civil Liberties
• Law of the ECHR
• Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Treaties

Tony Cole

• Human rights - relating to labor rights

Dr Stephen Crawford

• Histories and theories of human rights in medieval and early modern thought

Professor Peter Cumper

• European human rights law (ECHR Articles 9, 10, 11)
• Law and religion (human rights related areas)
• Freedom of expression (ECHR Article 10)

Dr Alan Desmond

• Protection of migrants’ rights in national, regional and international systems of human rights protection

Professor Francois du Bois

• Human Rights and Civil Liberties (impact on private law, esp. law of obligations)
• Privacy (esp. issues of civil liability and interaction of private law and human rights)

Dr Loveday Hodson

• Administrative and public law
• Constitutional law,
• Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
• Human rights and civil liberties

Edward Jones

• Freedom of expression and private life in the workplace

Arwen Joyce

• Human rights as they relate to the labour rights of migrant workers 

Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo

• Public participation in environmental decision making (particularly with regards to black women's participation)
• Human right to food
• Human right to a clean and healthy environment

Satwant Kaur

• International human rights law
• Human rights and civil liberties

Dr Nataly Papadopoulou

• End of life law and policy from a human rights, doctrinal, and comparative perspective
• Assisted suicide and euthanasia
• Human rights in healthcare (especially the European Convention of Human Rights)

Dr Stephen Riley

• Human rights theory (especially human dignity as the foundation of human rights)

Dr Mark Searl

• Human rights protection in Canada (anti-discrimination law, Canadian Charter of Rights of Freedoms)
• International human rights law

Dr Amal Sethi

• Constitutional and Administrative Law (constitutional protection of human rights)
• Courts and Human Right Protection
• Human Rights Law (particularly comparative projects)

Inga Thiemann

• The intersection of human trafficking and labour exploitation with human rights law

Priscilla Vitoh

• Human rights
• Gender

Dr Charlotte Wick

• International Human Rights Law
• Freedom of Expression

Professor Liz Wicks

• Human rights law (especially the Right to Life and Bodily Autonomy)
• Human rights in healthcare
• Aspects of the ECHR

Joe Wills

• Human rights law (especially socioeconomic rights)
• Animal rights

Professor Katja Ziegler

• EU rights
• ECHR
• Comparative human rights

Ruth Brittle

• Refugee/asylum law, in particular children's rights and children's approaches to evaluating the law

Alan Desmond

• International migration law
• International refugee law, Migrants' rights, Protection of migrants in international human rights law
• Nationality Law

Arwen Joyce

• Labour rights of migrant workers (with a particular geographical interest in Asia)
• Regulation of low-wage visa schemes
• Socio-legal and comparative approaches to the study of labour migration and outcomes for migrant workers
• Labour and family migration in the UK

Dr Marc Loureiro

• Comparative citizenship law
• Decolonial legal studies
• Comparative constitutional law

Bernard Ryan

• The history of immigration and nationality law (including both decolonisation and race discrimination)
• Nationality law, covering British law, international law and comparative studies
• UK, EU and international law relatinmg to border control
• The EU settlement scheme

Inga Thiemann

• Human trafficking and labour exploitation, as well as their intersections with gender and law, human rights law and public international law

Diana Dukhia

Alison Slade

• Patent Law
• IP Licensing
• International IP Law
• IP and Global Health

Ann Luk

• Copyright law
• Music and copyright

Dr Rufat Babayev

• Economic rights

Dr Onder Bakircioglu

• Public international law
• Collective security system
• Just war doctrine in Islam and Christianity

Dr Olalekan Bello

• Environmental law

Dr Kimberley Brayson

• Theory and history of human rights; human rights of the ECHR
• Decolonial and feminist approaches to rights
• Human rights and fascism
• Human rights and Islamic dress
• Alternatives to rights.

Dr Rossana Deplano

• International Law (public)

Dr Alan Desmond

• Migrants’ rights protection
• Nationality law

Dr Joycelin Eze-Okubuiro

• Public International Law
• Critical Legal theories/TWAIL
• International Legal History
• Law of International Organisations
• Relationship and Conflicts between states and non-state actors in law-making
• Legal pedagogy/Decolonisation
• International Development (Sustainable Development Goals, Development collaborations between states and Aid/Tied Aid.

Dr Sarah Jane Fox

• Space Law and policies
• Aviation law and policy
• Shipping laws (mining and interdictions)
• International policing and security

Dr Loveday Hodson

• Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
• International law (public)

Arwen Joyce

• International migration and refugee law 

Dr Simran Kalra

• Comparative law
• Legal pluralism
• Transnational law

Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo

• International environmental law

Satwant Kaur

• History of international law/international criminal justice
• International criminal tribunals and the international criminal coirt
• ICC institutional and constitutional issues

Dr Sarina Landefeld

• International human rights law/law of armed conflicts
• Protection of civilians
• Public international law
• International law and history
• International law and international relations

Dr Troy Lavers

• International public law
• International criminal law
• Economic sanctions and certain aspects of constitutional law and human rights
• Feminist perspective of international law

Dr Stefan Mandelbaum

• General international law
• International arbitration

Dr Eki Omorogbe

• ICC institutional and constitutional issues
• Public International Law - international and regional peace and security ( United Nations, African Union, peacekeeping, peace-enforcement, the use of force, intervention in civil conflicts, military humanitarian intervention, the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ doctrine)
• International Criminal Court and African situations

Dr Maria Louca

• Public International Law
• International Procedural Law

Dr Arinze Okiche

• International Trade Law
• Competition Law
• International Economic Law
• African Economic Integration

Dr Nauman Reayat

Any of the following in developing democracies, Global South, authoritarian and hybrid regimes:

• Constitutional law and politics
• Judicial independence
• Judicialisation of politics
• Juristocracy
• Human rights protection/enforcement
• Rule of law and/or constitutionalism

Professor Bernard Ryan

• Immigration law, nationality law and asylum law

Dr Mark Searl

• International human rights law
• International legal theory

Dr Paolo Vargiu

• Public International Law

Priscilla Vitoh

• International economic law
• International development law

Dr Charlotte Wick

• Genocide
• International Criminal Law
• International Criminal Courts

Dr Ewa Zelazna

• International economic law, international trade, international investment

Professor Katja Ziegler

• International law (public)
• Use of force and accountability for the use of force in international and constitutional law

Dr Olalekan Bello

• Environmental storytelling and narrative enquiry
• Legal theory and jurisprudence (modern and postmodern)
• International human rights law and theory, especially human rights and justice

Stefano Bertea

• Legal theory and jurisprudence
• Philosophy of law
• Political philosophy

Dr Kimberley Brayson

• Feminist legal theories, legal theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, critical jurisprudence, critical theory
• Comparative law, law and literature
• Decolonisation and decolonial theory, race and gender, socio-economic class
• Human rights
• Islamic dress
• Alternative pedagogies, epistemological pluralism, embodied epistemologies

Francois du Bois

• Legal Theory and Jurisprudence (philosophy of private law, esp. law of obligations)
• Philosophy of Law (philosophy of private law, esp. law of obligations)

Dr Stephen Crawford

• Constitutional theory
• Medieval and early modern histories of constitutional thought

Dr Clark Hobson

• Jurisprudence/philosophy 

Loveday Hodson

• Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory

Arwen Joyce

• Labour law theory
• Migration law theory

Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo

• Epistemic oppression and the law
• Black feminist theories of justice

Dr Marc Loureiro

• Constitutional theory
• Constitutional rights theory

Dr Stefan Mandelbaum

• Legal theory
• Political philosophy
• German idealism
• Critical theory

Dr Stephen Riley

• Jurisprudence / philosophy of law
• Human dignity and law
• Future generations and law

Dr Mark Searl

• Jurisprudence
• Natural law theory

Joe Wills

• Law and political theory
• Animal rights
• Critical theory

Dr Louise Austin

• Informed consent
• Medical negligence

Eugenia Caracciollo di Torella

• Caring and the Law

Dr Tracey Elliott

• Bioethics
• Medical law and ethics

Dr Clark Hobson

• Informed consent
• Assisted suicide and euthanasia

Professor José Miola

• Access to innovative treatments
• Consent
• Liability issues
• Medical decision-making, including by AI entities

Dr Nataly Papadopoulou

• End of life law and policy from a human rights, doctrinal, and comparative perspective
• Assisted suicide and euthanasia
• Human rights in healthcare (especially the European Convention of Human Rights)

Professor Liz Wicks

• Medical Law and Ethics (especially beginning and end of life issues, and faith and belief in healthcare)

Dr Rufat Babayev

• Contract law (human rights aspects)

Barbara Bogusz

• Land Law

Francois du Bois

• Comparative Law (general theoretical aspects and private law, esp. law of obligations
• Commercial Law (commercial aspects of contract and tort law)
• Contract Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
• Tort Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
• Personal Injury Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
• Defamation Law (including comparative and philosophical/theoretical analysis)
• Human Rights and Civil Liberties (impact on private law, esp. law of obligations)
• Privacy (esp. issues of civil liability and interaction of private law and human rights)

John Hartshorne

• Issues relating to the Law of Tort, especially the protection of privacy

Nicola Jackson

• Trusts Law, particularly trustees powers and duties, validity and formation of trusts, and offshore trusts
• Aspects of Land Law, such as title registration, overreaching, equitable doctrines such as proprietary estoppel
• Contract law

Peter Jaffey

• Restitution and unjust enrichment
• The common law and common law reasoning
• Remedies
• Theory of contract
• Private property
• Private law

Professor Paul Almond

• Criminal justice
• Criminology
• Regulation and governance studies

Dr Olalekan Bello

• Law and literature (African pre- and post-colonial literature)
• Postcolonial and decolonisation theory
• Legal cultures, traditions and history (from the global perspective)

Dr Melissa Bone

• Criminology (especially in the area of drug policy) and criminal justice

Dr Kimberley Brayson

• Feminist legal theories, legal theory, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, critical jurisprudence, critical theory
• Comparative law, law and literature
• Decolonisation and decolonial theory, race and gender, socio-economic class
• Human rights
• Islamic dress
• Alternative pedagogies, epistemological pluralism, embodied epistemologies

Dr Ruth Brittle

• Children's rights and children's rights approaches to evaluating the law

Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella

• Equality (in particular Gender) and the Law
• Work/Life Balance
• Family and Child Law
• Caring and the Law

Tony Cole

• Socio-legal studies, including criminal law and justice - relating to arbitration

Professor Pablo Cortés

• Consumer redress
• Online Dispute Resolution
• Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, Ombudsman Schemes)
• Comparative civil litigation (class actions, small claims, etc)

Dr Joycelin Eze Okubuiro

• Critical legal theories/TWAIL/decolonisation/legal pedagogy
• Legal history
• Relationship and conflicts between states and non-state actors in law-making
• Development/aid

Dr Sarah Jane Fox

• Policing/Criminology/Crime and Criminal/related police Laws and Policies including organised crime, cyber crime; cross border elements and data sharing
• Security and Terrorism: particularly related to transport (e.g. aviation and 9/11) and space, cyber, and open spaces

Loveday Hodson

• Administrative and public law
• Constitutional law
• Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
• Human rights and civil liberties
• International law (public)

Arwen Joyce

• Socio-legal and comparative approaches to the study of low-wage temporary migrant worker programmes and outcomes for migrant workers

Dr Simran Kalra

• Family law
• Feminist legal studies
• Law and religion
• Socio-legal studies

Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo

• Food and environmental justice
• Creative and arts-based methodologies
• Participatory action research in socio-legal research
• Black women in the legal profession (the lived experiences of...)

Professor Sally Kyd

• Criminal justice
• Criminal law

Dr Marc Loureiro

• Citizenship and nationality law

Dr Ann Luk

• Interdisciplinary research between psychology and law
• Intellectual property and copyright law
• Empirical research into jurisprudence, legal theory and morality

Dr Constantina Sampani

• The impact of anthropological and socio-legal aspects on judicial mechanisms for dispute resolution

Dr Amal Sethi

• Empirical Analysis of Law (particularly constitutional, human rights, and European law)
• Judicial Politics
• Democratisation

Dr Inga Thiemann

• The intersection of gender and law with human trafficking and labour exploitation

Charlotte Walsh

• Criminology