Law
Company, Commercial and Financial Law
- 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
- Company, commercial and financial law
Dr Tom Egbe
- Maritime Law
- International Carriage of Goods by Sea
- International Sale of Goods
- Corporate law
- Corporate governance
- Trusts and equity
- Professional regulation
- 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
- International commercial law
- International economic law
- International investment law
- Company law
- Commercial law
- Financial law
- Comparative corporate governance
Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology
- Criminal law
- Criminal justice
- Criminology
- Criminal law; including theory, doctrine, and comparative criminal law
- Criminology (especially in the area of drug policy)
- Criminal justice
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
- 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
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
- Criminal justice
- Criminal evidence
- Miscarriages of justice
- Forensic science
- Criminology
Dispute Resolution
- Alternative dispute resolution (in particular mediation)
- Arbitration law (international and commercial arbitration, including theoretical aspects)
- Alternative Methods of Dispute resolution
- Dispute resolution (including conflicts of laws)
- Socio-legal studies, including criminal law and justice - relating to arbitration
- Consumer redress
- Online Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, Ombudsman Schemes)
- Comparative civil litigation (class actions, small claims, etc)
- Civil litigation
- International law (private), including conflict of laws
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
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Arbitration law
Employment Law
- Employment law
- Collective representation of workers and voices at work
- Equality law in the workplace
- International, European and comparative employment law
- 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.
- Employment law
- Reconciliation of work and family life
- Equality, discrimination and inclusion in the workplace
- Industrial action
- Human rights in employment context
European Law and Policy
- EU Law (internal market law and conflict of laws)
- International law (private), including conflict of laws (EU choice-of-law rules)
Dr Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella
- Equality (in particular Gender) and the Law - Work/Life Balance, Family and Child Law, Caring and the Law
- EU Brexit law
- 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
- Employment law
- EU law
- Employment law (especially regulation of dismissals)
- Employment law (national, European, international and comparative)
- Employment law
- EU law (labour law, social rights)
- Human rights (labour law, social rights)
- Immigration law, nationality law and asylum law
- EU law, EU constitutional law,
- EU external relations law
- EU law (human rights, interaction of legal orders, multilevel constitutionalism
Human Rights
- International human rights law
- 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)
- Human Rights and Civil Liberties
- Law of the ECHR
- Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Treaties
- Human rights - relating to labor rights
Dr Stephen Crawford
- Histories and theories of human rights in medieval and early modern thought
- Education law
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Law and religion
- Protection of migrants’ rights in national, regional and international systems of human rights protection
- 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)
- Administrative and public law
- Constitutional law,
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Freedom of expression and private life in the workplace
- Human rights as they relate to the labour rights of migrant workers
- 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)
- 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
- International Human Rights Law
- Freedom of Expression
- Human rights law (especially the Right to Life and Bodily Autonomy)
- Human rights in healthcare
- Aspects of the ECHR
- Human rights law (especially socioeconomic rights)
- Animal rights
- EU rights
- ECHR
- Comparative human rights
Immigration Law
- International migration law
- International refugee law, Migrants' rights, Protection of migrants in international human rights law
- Nationality Law
- International migration and refugee law
- Migration law theory, Human rights as they relate to the labour rights of migrant workers
- Socio-legal and comparative approaches to the study of low-wage temporary migrant worker programmes and outcomes for migrant workers
- Labour law theory
- Immigration law
- Nationality law
- Asylum law
Intellectual Property Law
- Patent Law
- IP Licensing
- International IP Law
- IP and Global Health
- Copyright law
- Music and copyright
International Law
- International investment law
- Public international law
- Collective security system
- Just war doctrine in Islam and Christianity
Dr Olalekan Bello
- Environmental law
- 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.
- International Law (public)
- 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
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- International law (public)
- International migration and refugee law
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
- 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
- Immigration law, nationality law and asylum law
Dr Mark Searl
- International human rights law
- International legal theory
- Public International Law
- Genocide
- International Criminal Law
- International Criminal Courts
- International economic law, international trade, international investment
- International law (public)
- Use of force and accountability for the use of force in international and constitutional law
Law and Theory
- Legal theory and jurisprudence
- Philosophy of law
- Political philosophy
- 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
- 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
- Jurisprudence/philosophy
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- Labour law theory
- Migration law theory
- Jurisprudence / philosophy of law
- Human dignity and law
- Future generations and law
Dr Mark Searl
- Jurisprudence
- Natural law theory
- Law and political theory
- Animal rights
- Critical theory
Medico-Legal
Eugenia Caracciollo di Torella
- Caring and the Law
- Bioethics
- Medical law and ethics
- Informed consent
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia
- Access to innovative treatments
- Consent
- Liability issues
- Medical decision-making, including by AI entities
- 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)
- Medical Law and Ethics (especially beginning and end of life issues, and faith and belief in healthcare)
Private Law
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Land Law
- 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)
- Issues relating to the Law of Tort, especially the protection of privacy
- 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
- Restitution and unjust enrichment
- The common law and common law reasoning
- Remedies
- Theory of contract
- Private property
- Private law
Socio-legal Studies
- Criminal justice
- Criminology
- Regulation and governance studies
- Criminology (especially in the area of drug policy) and criminal justice
- 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
- Criminal justice
- Equality (in particular Gender) and the Law
- Work/Life Balance
- Family and Child Law
- Caring and the Law
- Socio-legal studies, including criminal law and justice - relating to arbitration
- Consumer redress
- Online Dispute Resolution
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, Ombudsman Schemes)
- Comparative civil litigation (class actions, small claims, etc)
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
- Administrative and public law
- Constitutional law
- Gender, sexuality and law/Feminist theory
- Human rights and civil liberties
- International law (public)
- Socio-legal and comparative approaches to the study of low-wage temporary migrant worker programmes and outcomes for migrant workers
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
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
- Criminology