Academic staff
- Dr Phillip Brooker (Co-Director) - Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis; the philosophy and sociology of science/knowledge; science and technology studies; digital/creative social research methods.
- Dr Firat Cengiz (Co-Director) - The intersection of law, political science, and economics.
- Dr Charlotte Branchu - Sociology of the body, culture, and gender.
- Professor Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou - European human rights law; administration of international justice; comparative law.
- Professor Barry Godfrey - Longitudinal studies of crime and sentencing; how individual and structural factors can affect desistence from crime; comparative international studies of offending and sentencing; court culture and practice; the history of Liverpool; and convicts in America and Australia.
- Dr Antoinette Huber - Cybercrime, sexual violence, gender, victimology, feminism, extremist groups online, online abuse, digital criminology.
- Dr Sabine Jacques - The balance between freedom of expression and intellectual property rights; promoting cultural diversity in creative industries through copyright; algorithmic enforcement of intellectual property law.
- Dr Andrew Kirton - Digital culture and society.
- Professor Michael Mair - Politics; the state and governmental practice, particularly their changing contemporary forms and attendant problems of accountability.
- Jeremy Marshall - The way in which legal processes deliver (or fail to deliver) justice.
- Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas - The development of and intersection between European and Global Law and their impact on human rights, justice, and the rule of law.
- Dr Gina Potarca - Society, sociology of gender.
- Joseph Savirimuthu - Legal and ethical issues relating to autonomous systems, data, and personal information policy.
- Dr Sujitha Subramanian - Intellectual property and right to freedom of speech; intellectual property and public interest; intellectual property and cultural heritage; intellectual property and technology.
- Dr Nicole Vitellone - Sociology of harm reduction policies and practices.
Honorary members
- Dr Matthew Shillito (University of Lancaster) - Non-profit organisations, anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing, Financial Action Task Force, digital currencies, non-traditional payment methods; de-risking, financial inclusion.
Postgraduate researchers
- Clementina Salvi - European criminal law and digital justice.
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