People

Founders

• Professor Lois Bibbings
• Dr Chathuni Jayathilaka
• Professor Catherine Kelly
• Professor Joanna McCunn
• Professor Gwen Seabourne

Co-Directors

• Professor Gwen Seabourne
• Dr Gauri Pillai

Our people and their research interests

• Professor Foluke Adebisi

  Colonial History and History of Enslavement (mainly in Africa)
• Dr Andrew Bell

  History of tort law and obligations more broadly; comparative legal history; history of approaches to uncertainty
• Professor Lois Bibbings

  Crime; men and masculinities; First World War; conscientious objection; applied ethics
• Professor Jonathan Burnside

  Reception history of biblical law
• Professor Joanne Conaghan

  History of gender and law; history of sexual violence and law; history of feminist engagement with law
• Dr Robert Greally

  Late 19th/Early 20th Century development of British Public Law Thought; The Evolution of Parliaments/Legislatures Assemblies; and Parliamentary Procedure
• Dr Chathuni Jayathilaka

  Scots legal history; contract law and legal history; private law and legal history; ius commune
• Professor Catherine Kelly

  History of law and medicine; history of intellectual property
• Dr Lee McConnell

  The ways lawyers make reference to 'history' in the course of legal argumentation, and what this says about our conceptions of history. The ways in which conceptions of history are themselves historical/dynamic, rather than static
• Professor Joanna McCunn

  Early Modern legal history; history of private law; legal history and theory

• Emeritus Professor Rodney Morgan

  Criminal Justice policy development; including policing; prosecution; the organisation of the criminal courts and penal policy
• Professor Ken Oliphant

  History of tort law and no-fault compensation; including interactions with technological change
• Professor Julian Rivers

  Roman law; canon law; constitutional history; historical legal philosophy
• Professor Gwen Seabourne

  Medieval legal history; gender and legal history; Welsh legal history
• Professor Sally Sheldon

  History of law and gender; abortion law history
• Emaritus Professor Chris Willmore

  Inclosure; tithe; highways; rights of way; Finance Act 1910; aspects of land law 17th - 19th century; mining and mineral rights