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Summary of Staff Research Interests

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  Richard Austen-Baker

  Dr Austen-Baker's interests are in common law, particularly contracts (history, theory and doctrine), also commercial law and the law of torts and of common law remedies. Currently, he is conducting work into implied terms in contracts, and continuing his researches in the field of relational contract theory.
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  Sarah Beresford

  Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law.
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  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; Legal Theory.
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  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 his research is on the position of the age discrimination protections in the context of retirement.
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  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 UK and Ireland; methods of human rights research.
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  Bela Bonita Chatterjee

  Law, Cyber, Gender, Sexualities, New Media, Socio-Legal
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  Catherine Easton

  Catherine Easton completed her PhD on access to the Internet, citizenship and disabled people in 2010.  Her research interests include Internet governance, domain name regulation, intellectual property, access to technology and human/computer interaction.  In 2012 Catherine was awarded an HEA international scholarship to carry out research on educational technology in the USA.
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  Georgina Firth

  My research interests include criminal justice, human rights, gender perspectives and immigration and asylum law. In particular, I concentrate on effective reform of (1) the legal processes surrounding the law of rape and (2) the asylum process, particularly with regard to the treatment of women and children. My aim is to draw on my professional experience of working in the legal system to attempt to build bridges between academia and practice in these areas.
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  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 research, regulation and risk, and I have published on the legal regulation of xenotransplantation, and issues surrounding consenting to risk. I am also interested in decision making processes and practices with regard to the 'vulnerable'.  
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  Sophia Kopela

  Public international law, international law of the sea, international environmental law, international dispute settlement.
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  Philip Lawton

  My areas of interest are Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Equity and Trusts.I am particuarly interested in aspects of culture and corporations, comparative and transplantation issues in corporate law and governance. The legal dimensions of modelling the life cycles of family firms and the governance aspects of small to medium sized enterprises.
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  Angus MacCulloch

  Research interests primarily in Competition Law, particularly cartels and wider antitrust enforcement issues, but also in a number of other areas; including EU Law, Regulation, White Collar Crime, Intellectual Property, and Video Games.
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  Barbara Mauthe

  Public Law
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  Gearoid O Cuinn

  Gearóid's research focuses on the governance of infectious disease and new technologies. He also has a strong interest in the sociology of human rights law and practice. Gearóid is co-director of Ceartas, Irish Lawyers for Human Rights, a non-profit organisation that develops innovative legal actions to protect and promote human rights internationally.
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  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 criminal law on bioethics and health care practice and exploitation in the doctor-patient relationship. 
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  Clemens Rieder

  My current research interests cover EU law, health care, identity and nationalism.
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  Sigrun Skogly

  My main research interest lie in International Law, International Human Rights Law - in particular human rights obligations and economic, social and cultural rights, Law of International Institutions. I recent years I have focused my research on states' extraterritorial human rights obligations.
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  David Sugarman

  He teaches and writes on legal history, the legal profession, legal education, corporate law, international human rights and European anti-discrimination law.   He has undertaken research for inter-governmental organisations, government departments and NGO's, most recently the European Court of Justice (2011), the European Court of Human Rights (2011) and the European Union Parliament Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee (2012 and 2013).  He has written and/or edited 18 books and written over 90 articles and book chapters.  He has also published articles in The Times, Guardian, Santiago Times (Chile), Open Democracy and El Mostrador and contributed to TV (such as ITN and CNN) and radio (e.g., BBC Radio 4 and Vienna Public Radio). Professor Sugarman is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  He has been a Visiting Professor in Canada, Germany, Japan, Spain, and the USA, and he has delivered over 300 invited lectures in more than 20 countries.
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  Tom Webb

  Tom  is conducting research into public law, particularly the theory of constitutionalism, and the use of complexity theory (a systems theory) as a critical device in law.  In addition to this Tom has also written on the theory of autopoiesis. Tom is also interested in administrative justice in the tribunals system, particularly as regards immigration and mental health tribunals.
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  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 indigenous peoples.

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