Impact and Visibility

International Law

Dr Amanda Cahill-Ripley

Amanda Amanda’s research is centred around international human rights. She is particularly interested in economic, social and cultural rights; conflict and transitional justice; international humanitarian law; human rights and development and the rights of women and children.

Dr Sophia Kopela

Sophia’s research interests lie in the areas of the international law of the sea, international environmental law and international dispute settlement.

Professor Peter Rowe

Peter Peter’s research interests mainly focus on the relationship among three strands of law. These are the international law of armed conflict, international human rights law and military law.

Professor Sigrun Skogly

Sigrun Sigrun’s research interests are primarily focused in international human rights law, particularly human rights obligations and economic, social and cultural rights.

Dr James Summers

James James’ research interests lie in the area of self-determination in international law.

Professor Steven Wheatley

Steven Steven’s research interests lie in the area of international law. More specifically, he is interested in democracy and how the work of legitimate political authority is understood in international law.

Bioethics and Medical Law

Dr Sara Fovargue

Sara's work focuses on the regulation of and risk associated with developing biotechnologies, particularly xenotransplantation and reproductive biotechnologies. Her research explores the legal and ethical aspects of clinical research, and she has also considered decision-making practices for vulnerable groups within health care law and practice.

Professor Suzanne Ost

Suzanne Ost Suzanne’s research interests are in assisted dying and the intervention of the criminal law in health care. Her research also explores responses to child pornography and the sexual grooming of children.

Other

Dr Richard Austen-Baker

Richard Richard’s research interests lie in the area of common law, particularly the history, theory and doctrines of contract law. He is currently conducting research into implied terms in contracts and relational contract theory.

Dr Sarah Beresford

Sarah Sarah’s research interests are focused on Gender, Sexuality and the Law in the context of Family Law, and Society and Religion and the Law.

Dr Mark Butler

Mark’s research interests are centred on UK employment law and EU labour law. He is particularly focused on employee rights, and currently he is conducting research in the area of age discrimination protections in the context of retirement.

Dr Bela Chatterjee

Bela’s research interests are in the field of cyber, gender, sexuality and law. More specifically, Bela’s work concentrates on interrogating transdisciplinary aspects of cyberlaw from a feminist perspective, with a particular emphasis on gender, sexuality and sexual expression.

Dr Catherine Easton

Catherine’s research focuses primarily on Information and Communication Technology Law and regulation. She has also done research on legal teaching and learning activities.

Dr Agata Fijalkowski

Agata Agata’s research interests lie within the areas of comparative constitutionalism, European human rights, and post-transitional justice.

Professor Alisdair Gillespie

Alisdair’s research interests lie in the area of criminal law and criminal justice. More specifically his expertise relates to legal issues concerning the sexual exploitation of children, particularly where it is facilitated by Information and Communication Technologies.

Neil Kibble

Neil’s research interests are on evidence in serious sex offences. More specifically, his research is focused around evidentiary issues surrounding the relevance and admissibility of prior sexual history in sex offences.

Dr Philip Lawton

Philip Philip’s research interests lie in corporate law, corporate governance and equity and trusts.

Angus MacCulloch

MacCulloch Angus’ research interests lie primarily in Competition Law, particularly antitrust and enforcement issues. He also has a wider interest in EU Law, Regulation, White Collar Crime, and Intellectual Property.

Dr Barbara Mauthe

Barbara’s research focuses on public law theory and central-local government relations.

Dr Ben Mayfield

Ben Ben’s research interests lie in the area of land and property law. More specifically he focuses on access to land and legal history.

Professor David Milman

David David’s research interests are primarily in insolvency law. He is also interested in company law, international business law and partnership law.

Dr Gearoid O'Cuinn

Gearóid’s research focuses on human rights law and the interactions of law and technology. His most recent work focuses on the public health governance of pandemic influenza.

Professor Sol Picciotto

Sol Sol’s research interests lie in the areas of international economic and business law and regulation, especially tax and regulatory avoidance and the ‘offshore’ system, and intellectual property rights.

Dr Clemens Rieder

Clemens’ research interests lie in the area of EU Law, European Human Rights Law and Healthcare Law. He takes an interdisciplinary approach with the inclusion of political and philosophical theory.

Professor David Sugarman

David David is best known for his contributions to legal history, the legal profession, legal education and corporate law. He is also an acknowledged expert on aspects of international human rights law, particularly, the struggle to prosecute Augusto Pinochet and the ‘human rights turn’ in the post-Pinochet Chile.

Tom Webb

Tom Webb Tom’s research interests lie in the area of systems theory thinking and its application to law, particularly in the context of public and administrative law.