Meet our members

Discover more about our researchers and their interests.

Academic staff

  • Dr Andrew Woodhouse (Director) - Critical approaches to EU and UK public law. 
  • Dr Philip Burton - History and theory of international law. 
  • Dr Gregory Davies - Devolution, particularly in Wales; the political functions of the judiciary within the UK's territorial constitution; prisoners' rights; Marxist and other materalist approaches to legal and constitutional analysis. 
  • Dr Eleanor Drywood - Children's rights perspectives to sports law; EU law; asylum and immigration law. 
  • Professor Michelle Farrell - International law, human rights law, state power and violence. 
  • Dr Andrea Gideon - Comparative law; comparative competition law; competition law in ASEAN. 
  • Professor Michael Gordon - UK constitutional reform, constitutional theory, the relationship between the UK and the EU. 
  • Professor Thomas Horsley - Constitutional and comparative law with particular focus on the UK and EU legal systems. 
  • Dr Emily Ireland - Legal history, particularly socio-legal and feminist histories of the criminal law, equity, and family law. 
  • Dr Katie Johnston - Public international law, with particular interests in the law on the use of force (jus ad bellum) and the sources of international law. 
  • Dr Brian Christopher Jones - Public law, comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, law and politics. 
  • Dr Robert Knox - The relationship between law and the political-economic structures of capitalism. 
  • Dr Ben Murphy - Public international law; international law and the use of force; international institutional law; the interface between international law and public law theory. 
  • Dr Anne Neylon - Immigration and refugee law. 
  • Dr Darryn Nyatanga - Constitutional implications stemming from the UK's withdrawal from the EU (Brexit) and its impact on devolution. 
  • Dr Maayan Niezna - Trafficking for labour exploitation, the regulation of labour migration, the rights of non-citizens. 
  • Dr James Organ - EU participatory democracy.
  • Dr Stephanie Reynolds - EU constitutional law, the law of the single marekt, Union citizenship, EU legal framework relating to the protection of fundamental rights. 
  • Dr Katy Sowery - EU constitutional law, domestic constitutional law and theory, animal law and critical jurisprudential theory. 
  • Dr Adam Tucker - Constitutional law, constitutional theory, legal philosophy. 
  • Professor Yuliia Volkova - Honorary visiting fellow. 
  • Dr Tarek Yusari Khaliliyeh (Department of Philosophy) - Criminal law and justice. 

Postgraduate researchers

  • Aoife Bowdler - Aoife's working thesis title is 'The Political Economy of Collective Security'. 
  • Matilda Clough - Tilly's working thesis title is 'An Investigation into the Charitable Status of Independent Schools'. 
  • Kate Dewsnip - Kate's working thesis title is 'Scrutiny in the United Kingdom Legislative Process: Parliament in Ordinary and Exceptional Times'. 
  • Raam Dutia 
  • Divin De Buffalo Irakiza - Divin's working thesis title is 'Does the Charter of Fundamental Rights impose an obligation on the EU Commission to take into account fundamental rights in EU competition law?'. 
  • Erandin Jayasooriya - Erandin's working thesis title is 'Justice, pragmatism, and favour: reforming presidential pardoning in Sri Lanka'. 
  • William Norcup-Brown - William's working thesis title is ‘Property and Protest: a positive right of access to privately owned public spaces’.
  • Aidan Nyhus 
  • Danielle Reeder - Danielle's working thesis title is 'Consequences of United Kingdom Withdrawal from the European Union on Collective Security Mechanisms'.
  • Muhammad Shahid 

 

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