Dr Katy Sowery

Personal Statement

Katy was appointed as Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool Law School in August 2018. She was previously a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University and completed her PhD thesis on the relationship between the sources of EU primary law in 2018. During this time she established working connections with universities in Leiden and Oslo as the co-creator of the Liverpool-Leiden-Oslo PhD conference. She also submitted evidence to the Home Affairs Committee on the relationship between the UK and EU in 2019.

Katy's research interests lie in the field of EU constitutional law, domestic constitutional law and theory, animal law and critical jurisprudential theory. Katy is currently working on the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the law relating to animals. Her current research project explores the legal status and/or regulation of animals across global crises i.e. climate change, war, pandemics. She was a visiting researcher at St. Jerome's University in Canada in November 2022 where she delivered seminars on non-human legalities, the relationship between environmental law and animal law, and the position of animals as casualties of war.

Katy is the module coordinator of the Animal Law module at Liverpool, which she created and introduced in the academic year 2023/2024. She is also the module coordinator of Jurisprudence.

Katy has also been a guest editor for the Global Animal Law Review and the International Journal of Law in Context.

Katy is Deputy Director of the Recruitment/Widening Access team in the Law School, and is the lead on scholarships including the Stephen Lawrence Scholarship, Future Lawyers Scholarship and Humanitarian Scholarship.