People in Centre for Law and Society

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  Dr Sarah Beresford

  Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law. ... Read more»

• Dr Ian Bryan

  Dr Bryan's research interests centre on the following: Administration of Criminal Justice; Laws of Evidence; Criminal Law; Culpability; Criminalisation; Procedural Justice; Legal History; Freedom of Expression; Civil Liberties; Domestic, Regional and International Human Rights; Law and Religion; Leg... Read more»

• Dr Mark Butler

  Dr Mark Butler's research interests are centred on UK employment law and EU Labour law, with a particular emphasis on employee rights. Currently he is conducting research in the area of age discrimination, viewing the protections afforded to workers through comparative analysis. The primary focus of... Read more»
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  Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley

  International human rights, in particular, economic, social and cultural rights; human rights and development; human rights, conflict and transitional justice; the rights of women and children; international humanitarian law; international refugee law; human rights, civil liberties and public law in... Read more»
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  Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee

  Dr Chatterjee's work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw, if possible from a feminist perspective, with particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression/pornography. She is also interested in identity and the law as broadly conceived. Her recent research... Read more»
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  Georgina Firth

  The aims of my research to date have been to create bridges between academia and practice and to attempt to engage the legal community as a whole in a consideration of effective legal reform of the law on rape. I feel that I am in a unique position to do this as I have considerable experience of the... Read more»

• Dr Sara Fovargue

  My research largely centres around two areas, biotechnology and reproduction, and I am particularly interested in xenotransplantation. Themes within my work include autonomy, risk, regulation, and the relationship between law and ethics. My research explores legal and ethical aspects of clinical res... Read more»
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  Professor Bob Jessop

  I studied sociology at Exeter University and then moved to the University of Cambridge to undertake doctoral research in political sociology based in the Faculty of Economics and Politics. After completing a study of British political culture and writing a book on the sociological theory of reform a... Read more»
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  Philip Lawton

  Career Details Graduated from Leicester University and was called to the UK and HK SAR Bar. He spent some time in legal editorial work before moving into academia. In addition to a stint as a foriegn expert in Beijing based at the Beijing Institute of Business in 1987-88, he has taught at the Univer... Read more»

• Dr Barbara Mauthe

  Public Law ... Read more»
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  Professor Christopher May

  I am currently the Faculty Associate Dean: Enterprise. I have published widely on intellectual property rights and the information society, with work translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Swedish and Ukrainian. Before becoming an academic I worked in the music industry, as a bookse... Read more»
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  Professor Suzanne Ost

  My main research interests are the legal and societal responses to child pornography, the sexual grooming of children and child sexual exploitation more broadly, health care/medical law and bioethics (particularly assisted dying), related aspects of criminal law, law and literature, the impact of cr... Read more»
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  Dr Ian Paylor

  I established the Applied Social Science Unit for Research and Evaluation (ASSURE) in 1999 to create an exchange between practitioners in the social care and welfare world and those who comment upon it. It is a cross-disciplinary unit that works in partnership with the third and statutory sectors of... Read more»

• Professor Sol Picciotto

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  Professor Sigrun Skogly

  International Law, International Human Rights Law - in particular human rights obligations and economic, social and cultural rights, Law of International Institutions. ... Read more»
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  Professor David Sugarman

  EDUCATION Having gained an undergraduate law degree (LLB) at Hull University, he completed graduate work in law at Cambridge University as a William Senior Scholar in Comparative Law (LLM and Diploma in Comparative Legal Studies), and Harvard Law School (LLM), where he was awarded a doctorate (SJD).... Read more»
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  Professor Steven Wheatley

  I am interested in how the idea of legitimate political authority is understood in international law. This includes both the idea of democratic authority within and beyond the state, and the idea of authority when applied to other political communities, including ethno-cultural minorities and indige... Read more»

Honorary / Visiting

• Professor Stephen Ackroyd

  Mediation by public and private sector organisations of economic and political power. ... Read more»

• Professor Joaquin Alcaide Fernandez

• Dr Zeyad Alqurashi

• Colin Ettinger

• Professor Thomas Wilhelmsson