Meet our members

Discover more about our researchers and their interests.

Academic staff

  • Dr Jennifer Sigafoos (Director) - Access to justice, social welfare law, discrimination law, charities, and lobbying.
  • Professor Marie Fox - Dog law regulation.
  • Dr James Organ - Access to Justice and impact of legal aid and other funding cuts on the provision of legal advice.
  • Professor Mark Sidel - Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he specialises in civil society, nonprofits, and philanthropy in China, India, and the United States. Professor Sidel is a Global Chair of the School of Law and Social Justice. 
  • Dr Sarah Singh - Dog rescue regulation.
  • Dr John Tribe (Deputy Director) - Charities and insolvency, integration of trusts and insolvency law, disqualifying fiduciaries. 

Postgraduate researchers

  • Faisal Alotaibi - Property Law. Faisal’s thesis will suggest reforms of the Saudi Jointly Owned Property Laws and practices, using the English commonhold and South African sectional title as benchmarks.
  • Keith Arrowsmith - Charity law and governance. Keith’s thesis will consider diversity in charitable boards. 
  • William Norcup Brown - property and human rights law, and access to quasi-public space. William's working thesis title is 'Property and Liberty: restoring the quasi-public trust in the 21st century'.
  • Maxim Cardew - Charitable companies and insolvency.
  • Matilda Clough - Charity law and educational law and policy. Tilly's working thesis title is: 'An Investigation into the Charitable Status of Independent Schools'.
  • Elin Williams - Commercial and Banking Law, Financial Crime, Cryptocurrency and Dark Web regulation. Elin's working thesis title is: 'Cryptocurrency-Based Money Laundering: Applying the Current Regulatory Framework in the New Technological Landscape'.

Honorary staff

  • Professor Warren Barr - Charitable trusts, charitable property, social housing, landlord and tenant.
  • Dr John Picton - Donative intention, cy-pres, charities and politics, charities and economics. 
  • Dr Angela Fowler - Terrorist Financing, Global Counter-Terrorist Finance Legal Framework.
  • Ms Anne Morris - Equality, gender, discrimination.
  • Professor Debra Morris - Charity law, charity governance, equality law, regulation.  
  • Dr Matthew Shillito - Non-profit organisations, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, Financial Action Task Force, digital currencies, non-traditional payment methods; de-risking, financial inclusion.
  • Dr Mary Synge - Associate Professor in Propery Law at the University of Reading.

 

 

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