Law staff supervisory interests
There is a thriving postgraduate research community in the Law School. Details about the research currently being carried out by postgraduate researchers in the School can be found on our profiles page.
Academic staff in Law are particularly interested in supervising in the following research areas:
Professor Diego Acosta Arcarazo
Migration Law, European Law, Citizenship Law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Foluke Adebisi
Decolonial thought in legal education and its intersection with a history of changing ideas of the 'human.' Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Kathryn Allinson
International refugee and migration law. International humanitarian, criminal and human rights law, armed conflict and displacement, state responsibility. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Andrew Bell
Private law (primarily tort and contract) from doctrinal, comparative and historical perspectives, employer liability and factual uncertainty. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Lois Bibbings
Present day and historical law - with interdisciplinary interests across the social sciences and humanities for example, legal history, criminal justice/criminology, medical law, family law, research methods and ethics. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Giacomo Biggio
Interested in the intersection between international security law and emerging technologies, with a specific focus on how international humanitarian law applies to cyberspace and artificial intelligence. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Alan Bogg
The general fields of labour, employment, and work laws. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Beril Boz
Intersection of law and digital technologies, particularly data protection law, the governance of emerging digital technologies, theories on consent and autonomy, and children's digital rights. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Patrick Capps
Public international law, jurisprudence, sociology of law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor John Coggon
Health law and policy, with particular focus on public and global health ethics and law, and mental capacity law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Jennifer Collins
Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, European Human Rights Law. Available as primary supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Joanne Conaghan
Legal responses to sexual violence, tort law, jurisprudence and legal theory, law and gender, labour and employment law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Robert Craig
Public law, UK Constitutional Law, Legal Philosophy. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Katie Cruz
Feminist and Marxist theory, law and political economy, regulation of sex work, trafficking for sexual exploitation, sex tourism, regulation of care work, free/unfree labour, universal basic income and services. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor James Davey
Insurance, Contract Remedies, Contract Theory, Fraud. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Sandra Duffy
International human rights, gender (identity) and law, reproductive justice/abortion rights, postcolonial law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Colin Gavaghan
Regulation of emerging technologies, law and reproductive/genetic technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics and law, law and digital technologies, end of life law and ethics, neurolaw. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Paula Giliker
Comparative private law, tort law, contract law, European private law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Robert Greally
Public Law, Constitutional Theory, Parliamentary Reform, Democratic Politics, Populism. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Emily Hancox
EU constitutional law, hierarchies in law, EU legal reasoning, EU fundamental rights, retained EU law, EU non-discrimination law and free movement law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Eleanore Hickman
Corporate governance, company law, corporate culture and the digital transformation (AI, Fintech, Platforms) as they relate to corporate law and governance. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne
Public international law, state responsibility, international dispute settlement, international humanitarian law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Mr Ilias Ioannou
Law and Technology, Commercial and Contract Law, Shipping Law, Law and Economics, Blockchain, Financial Technologies. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Lala Ireland
Competition Law, Comparative Law, Development Economics, West African regional laws, Electricity markets, intersection between competition law and Intellectual property. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Vaclav Janecek
A private law scholar, focusing on legal remedies and issues at the interface of law, philosophy, and computer science. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Chathuni Jayathilaka
Contract law; property law; contract of sale. Available as primary supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Catherine Kelly
Law's interaction with science and medicine in both historical and contemporary contexts. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Edward Kirton-Darling
Socio-legal approaches to public law, housing law, inquests, public law, and land law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Katarzyna Kryla-Cudna
Sale of goods, transnational commercial law, comparative private law (contract and tort law), contract law, contract and tort law in the context of environmental sustainability. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Judy Laing
Mental health & capacity law, policy and human rights. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Mrs Sumayyah Malna
Legal Education, Clinical Legal Studies, inquests, anti-racist lawyers, race and justice, judicial racism, mental capacity, mental health, community care. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Jacopo Martire
Critical theory (with a specific interest in the works of Michel Foucault), philosophy of law, legal and political theory, law and humanities, EU political and constitutional theory, and law and technology. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Joanna McCunn
History of English law, contract law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Sheelagh McGuinness
Health law, regulation of reproduction (particularly reproductive loss). Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Greg Messenger
World trade law and policy, law of economic diplomacy, interaction between world trade law and public policy objectives including public health, foreign policy, climate diplomacy, sustainable development. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Jule Mulder
European law, European, international, and comparative gender equality law, comparative methodology, and employment and equality law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Rachel Murray
Human rights: particularly in Africa, torture prevention, national human rights institutions, public international law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Michael Naughton
Specialises in miscarriages of justice, false allegations and wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Tonia Novitz
Labour rights, collective labour voice, international and EU trade, sustainability and migration. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Ken Oliphant
Pursues research on a wide-ranging set of topics relating to English, European and comparative tort law, and compensation for incapacity. Welcomes research supervision in the areas of liability for climate change and liability for AI. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Joshua Paine
International economic law (with a primary focus on international investment law, and secondary focus on international trade law), and international dispute settlement (focus on international courts and tribunals). Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Gavin Phillipson
Hate Speech, Comparative Free Speech Law. Public Law especially constitutional dialogue, the prerogative, bicameralism, constitutional conventions. Privacy in English law and comparative privacy law. Anti-terrorism law and human rights. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Oliver Quick
Health law, criminal law, patient safety, professional regulation, health innovation, healthcare crimes. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Katie Richards
Insurance contract law, insurance fraud, with particular interest in the claims process and causation. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Miss Caoimhe Ring
Intellectual property law, climate change governance, science and technology studies, law and political economy, innovation studies, and socio-legal studies (including qualitative research methodologies). Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Julian Rivers
Legal and constitutional theory, public law, law and religion. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Mr Matt Rollinson
Criminal law and mens rea, especially oblique intention. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Basil Salman
Jurisprudence, legal philosophy, including moral and political philosophy; specialising in the field of liberty, rights, and nature of criminal wrongs. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Albert Sanchez Graells
Law and economics, technology and public law, EU law and policy, competition law, public procurement and economic law more generally, government transformation, public sector digitalisation. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Gwen Seabourne
Medieval legal history. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Sahar Shah - Climate change and law, critical legal studies, anti-colonial legal theory. Available as second supervisor for 24/25. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Sally Sheldon
Health care law and ethics and the legal regulation of gender, with a particular focus on abortion law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Gemma Short
Research interests are Feminist Jurisprudence and Family Law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Elen R Stokes
Environmental law and policy, the regulation of new technologies, the role of law in imagining, making and acting on futures the relationship between law and the future. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Keith Syrett
Health care law, with a particular focus on health systems, the human right to health, resource allocation, health technology assessment and public health law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Professor Philip Syrpis
European Union competence, EU internal market, examining the relationship between the EU legislature and judiciary in that context, and on the process and implications of Brexit. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Clare Torrible
Policing and criminal justice. In particular police accountability, regulation and governance processes. Also evidence based policing, police policy and practices (e.g. stop and search) police media relations and police occupational culture. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Katherine Wade
Interested in supervising in issues affecting children in medical law, bioethics and family law, children's rights. Undertakes quantitative research/empirical research with children. Interested in participatory research methodology with children. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Tiffany Wang
International Trade Law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.
Dr Beke Zwingmann
German, English and comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, European constitutional law (esp. relationship of EU law to national constitutional law). Available as second supervisor for 24/25.