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Animal Law

Katy Sowery: animal law, critical approaches to jurisprudence, public law, environmental law
Marie Fox: animal law and ethics, legal embodiment, reproductive law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Sarah Singh: gender, sexuality and law, particularly socio-legal responses to mothers/motherhood, law and policy responses to animals, feminist perspectives on criminal law

Asylum / Refugee and Migration Law

Anne Neylon: asylum and immigration, citizenship, border studies, immigration detention, law and the museum
Eleanor Drywood: sports law, children’s rights, immigration/asylum law
Gregor Maucec: public international law, in particular international criminal law, international human rights law, international courts and tribunals, international migration and refugee law, international humanitarian law, international judicial behaviour and decision-making, international protection of minorities and vulnerable groups (limited availability for 2026-27)
Helen Stalford: Children’s rights; social justice; access to justice; immigration and asylum
Maayan Niezna: migrants’ rights, workers’ rights, anti-trafficking, legal mobilisation (limited availability for 2026-27)
Seán Columb: transnational crime, human rights, conflict and security, modern slavery, human smuggling, illegal markets, organised crime, the organ trade
Valsamis Mitsilegas: EU law, immigration law, refugee law, transnational and European criminal law, law of financial crime (anti-money laundering, anti-corruption), security and human rights

Bankruptcy / Insolvency

John Tribe: insolvency law, company law, corporate governance, bankruptcy law

Child and Family Law

Amel Alghrani: reproduction, children, assisted reproductive technologies (not taking on new students in 2026-27)
Anna Carline: criminal law (sexual and gender based violence, domestic homicide), criminal justice (access to justice, sexual history evidence, special measures), family law (domestic abuse, gender based violence) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Danielle Griffiths: medical law (reproduction, intersections with criminal law, criminal negligence), criminal justice (prosecutorial decision-making), family law (donor conception, parenthood, LGBTQ+ families) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Ed Horowicz: child health law (best interests, gender care, clinical ethics, children’s rights in health), research ethics
Eleanor Drywood: sports law, children’s rights, immigration/asylum law
Helen Stalford: Children’s rights; social justice; access to justice; immigration and asylum
Liam Davis: family law (legal parenthood, LGBTQ+ families, assisted reproduction), medical law (regulation of assisted reproduction, ‘right’ to know genetic origins, consent to treatment and trans* youth)
Nicola Barker: family law (marriage/civil partnership/legal recognition of relationships, donor conception, LGBTQ+ families), ECHR (family, marriage, religious rights, discrimination, the colonial clause), Human Rights Act 1998 (women’s rights, LGBT+ rights), UK Overseas Territories constitutions (limited availability for 2026-27)
Nicolas Brando: philosophy of law, children’s rights, TWAIL, decolonial theories (limited availability for 2026-27)
Zaina Mahmoud: family law (surrogacy, assisted reproduction), medical law, comparative law, contract law (limited availability for 2026-27)

Company, Commercial and Competition Law

Andrea Gideon: competition law, comparative law (comparative theories and methodologies, not simply projects with an element of comparison) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Firat Cengiz: competition law, law and economics, law of blockchain and crypto assets
Folashade Adeyemo: commercial law, broadly conceived
Francesca Farrington: law and development (rule of law promotion, institutional theories of law), private international law (transnational corporate accountability, SLAPPs), freedom of expression (SLAPPs)
John Tribe: insolvency law, company law, corporate governance, bankruptcy law
Mavluda Sattorova: international investment law and international arbitration, law and corporations in the global economy (limited availability for 2026-27)
Mustafa Yilmaz: maritime law, with particular emphasis on carriage of goods by sea and multimodal transport, including contemporary challenges arising from technological developments in shipping, such as autonomous vessels and the use of AI in maritime operations, as well as the impacts of climate change and environmental regulation on shipping
Rob Stokes: commercial law, banking law
Sarah Kebbell: anti-money laundering compliance (legal profession) (not taking on new students in 2026-27)
Sujitha Subramanian: intellectual property law; competition law; constitutional law (Asia); aspects of global health law; aspects of artificial intelligence law; free speech and defamation law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Valsamis Mitsilegas: EU law, immigration law, refugee law, transnational and European criminal law, law of financial crime (anti-money laundering, anti-corruption), security and human rights

Comparative Law

Andrea Gideon: competition law, comparative law (comparative theories and methodologies, not simply projects with an element of comparison) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Brian Christopher Jones: UK public law generally, comparative public law, constitutions and constitutional theory, law and politics
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou: European Human Rights Law
Thomas Horsley: public law (devolution/UK territorial constitution, general principles, judicial review), comparative law (legal transplants, theory and method)
Zaina Mahmoud: family law (surrogacy, assisted reproduction), medical law, comparative law, contract law (limited availability for 2026-27)

Criminal Law

Áine Clancy: corruption (asset recovery, non-conviction based responses to crime, official corruption, bribery, crimes of elites) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Amanda Cahill-Ripley: international human rights law, conflict/peace and development and international law, transitional justice, international criminal law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Andreas Karapatakis: digital economy, financial crime (banking regulation), technology (blockchain, crypto, central bank digital currencies)
Anna Carline: criminal law (sexual and gender based violence, domestic homicide), criminal justice (access to justice, sexual history evidence, special measures), family law (domestic abuse, gender based violence) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Danielle Griffiths: medical law (reproduction, intersections with criminal law, criminal negligence), criminal justice (prosecutorial decision-making), family law (donor conception, parenthood, LGBTQ+ families) limited availability for 2026-27
Greg Davies: devolution, human rights, prison law
Gregor Maucec: public international law, in particular international criminal law, international human rights law, international courts and tribunals, international migration and refugee law, international humanitarian law, international judicial behaviour and decision-making, international protection of minorities and vulnerable groups (limited availability for 2026-27)
Maayan Niezna: migrants’ rights, workers’ rights, anti-trafficking, legal mobilisation limited availability for 2026-27
Sarah Singh: gender, sexuality and law, particularly socio-legal responses to mothers/motherhood, law and policy responses to animals, feminist perspectives on criminal law
Seán Columb: transnational crime, human rights, conflict and security, modern slavery, human smuggling, illegal markets, organised crime, the organ trade
Valsamis Mitsilegas: EU law, immigration law, refugee law, transnational and European criminal law, law of financial crime (anti-money laundering, anti-corruption), security and human rights

Employment / Labour Law

Maayan Niezna: migrants’ rights, workers’ rights, anti-trafficking, legal mobilisation (limited availability for 2026-27)

Environmental Law

Katy Sowery: animal law, critical approaches to jurisprudence, public law, environmental law
Robert Knox: international law (international legal theory, the law on the use of force, international environmental law, international law and racism) (limited availability for 2026-27)

European Law

Amandine Garde: public health law and policy, particularly projects relating to disease prevention and health promotion; European law and specifically health, food, advertising, trade and human rights; the prevention of non-communicable disease through the regulation of (or litigation involving) the food, alcohol and tobacco industries (limited availability for 2026-27)
Michael Dougan: EU law
Stephanie Reynolds: EU law (EU constitution, internal market, digital services, EU citizenship, fundamental rights), UK public law (human rights, constitutional law, private/public interface), online speech and disinformation
Valsamis Mitsilegas: EU law, immigration law, refugee law, transnational and European criminal law, law of financial crime (anti-money laundering, anti-corruption), security and human rights

Gender, Sexuality and Law

Anna Carline: criminal law (sexual and gender based violence, domestic homicide), criminal justice (access to justice, sexual history evidence, special measures), family law (domestic abuse, gender based violence) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Danielle Griffiths: medical law (reproduction, intersections with criminal law, criminal negligence), criminal justice (prosecutorial decision-making), family law (donor conception, parenthood, LGBTQ+ families) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Ed Horowicz: child health law (best interests, gender care, clinical ethics, children’s rights in health), research ethics
Emily Ireland: legal history (women’s legal history, feminist legal history, criminal law, equity and trusts, family law) (not taking on new students in 2026-27)
Liam Davis: family law (legal parenthood, LGBTQ+ families, assisted reproduction), medical law (regulation of assisted reproduction, ‘right’ to know genetic origins, consent to treatment and trans* youth)
Marie Fox: animal law and ethics, legal embodiment, reproductive law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Nicola Barker: family law (marriage/civil partnership/legal recognition of relationships, donor conception, LGBTQ+ families), ECHR (family, marriage, religious rights, discrimination, the colonial clause), Human Rights Act 1998 (women’s rights, LGBT+ rights), UK Overseas Territories constitutions (limited availability for 2026-27)
Sarah Singh: gender, sexuality and law, particularly socio-legal responses to mothers/motherhood, law and policy responses to animals, feminist perspectives on criminal law

Health and Medical Law

Amandine Garde: public health law and policy, particularly projects relating to disease prevention and health promotion; European law and specifically health, food, advertising, trade and human rights; the prevention of non-communicable disease through the regulation of (or litigation involving) the food, alcohol and tobacco industries (limited availability for 2026-27)
Amel Alghrani: reproduction, children, assisted reproductive technologies (not taking on new students in 2026-27)
Danielle Griffiths: medical law (reproduction, intersections with criminal law, criminal negligence), criminal justice (prosecutorial decision-making), family law (donor conception, parenthood, LGBTQ+ families) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Ed Horowicz: child health law (best interests, gender care, clinical ethics, children’s rights in health), research ethics
Liam Davis: family law (legal parenthood, LGBTQ+ families, assisted reproduction), medical law (regulation of assisted reproduction, ‘right’ to know genetic origins, consent to treatment and trans* youth)
Marie Fox: animal law and ethics, legal embodiment, reproductive law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Mireia Garces de Marcilla: body modifications, embodiment, genital cutting
Paula Case: health law (regulation of professions/fitness to practise/professional accountability, mental capacity, clinical negligence litigation, regulation of medicinal cannabis), tort law (particularly projects relating to the shape/development of liabilities in the tort of negligence) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Sujitha Subramanian: intellectual property law; competition law; constitutional law (Asia); aspects of global health law; aspects of artificial intelligence law; free speech and defamation law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Zaina Mahmoud: family law (surrogacy, assisted reproduction), medical law, comparative law, contract law (limited availability for 2026-27)

Humanities and Law

Anne Neylon: asylum and immigration, citizenship, border studies, immigration detention, law and the museum
Emily Ireland: legal history (women’s legal history, feminist legal history, criminal law, equity and trusts, family law) (not taking on new students in 2026-27)
Sabine Jacques: intellectual property, AI, technology, cultural heritage, artistic freedom, creative reuse (limited availability for 2026-27)

Human Rights

Amanda Cahill-Ripley: international human rights law, conflict/peace and development and international law, transitional justice, international criminal law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Antal Berkes: international law, international human rights law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Francesca Farrington: law and development (rule of law promotion, institutional theories of law), private international law (transnational corporate accountability, SLAPPs), freedom of expression (SLAPPs)
Greg Davies: devolution, human rights, prison law
Gregor Maucec: public international law, in particular international criminal law, international human rights law, international courts and tribunals, international migration and refugee law, international humanitarian law, international judicial behaviour and decision-making, international protection of minorities and vulnerable groups (limited availability for 2026-27)
James Organ: access to justice (free legal advice, civil rights, social rights, socio-legal studies in this area considered, e.g. law and social determinants of health) democracy, political rights, participatory democracy of particular interest
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou: European Human Rights Law, Law of the Council of Europe
Maayan Niezna: migrants’ rights, workers’ rights, anti-trafficking, legal mobilisation (limited availability for 2026-27)
Nicola Barker: family law (marriage/civil partnership/legal recognition of relationships, donor conception, LGBTQ+ families), ECHR (family, marriage, religious rights, discrimination, the colonial clause), Human Rights Act 1998 (women’s rights, LGBT+ rights), UK Overseas Territories constitutions (limited availability for 2026-27)
Padraig McAuliffe: human rights especially socio-economic rights, transitional justice, international law and neopatrimonialism, international law and the disintegration of the liberal international order
Seán Columb: transnational crime, human rights, conflict and security, modern slavery, human smuggling, illegal markets, organised crime, the organ trade
Stephanie Reynolds: EU law (EU constitution, internal market, digital services, EU citizenship, fundamental rights), UK public law (human rights, constitutional law, private/public interface), online speech and disinformation
Valsamis Mitsilegas: EU law, immigration law, refugee law, transnational and European criminal law, law of financial crime (anti-money laundering, anti-corruption), security and human rights

Intellectual Property Law

Georgia Jenkins: intellectual property law, especially digital copyright law, platform liability and generative AI
Maciej Padamczyk: intellectual property law, biotechnology and law, technology law and society
Sabine Jacques: intellectual property, AI, technology, cultural heritage, artistic freedom, creative reuse (limited availability for 2026-27)
Sujitha Subramanian: intellectual property law; competition law; constitutional law (Asia); aspects of global health law; aspects of artificial intelligence law; free speech and defamation law (limited availability for 2026-27)

International Law

Amanda Cahill-Ripley: international human rights law, conflict/peace and development and international law, transitional justice, international criminal law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Antal Berkes: international law, international human rights law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Ben Murphy: use of force/collective, law of international organisations, legal and political theory (limited availability for 2026-27)
Francesca Farrington: law and development (rule of law promotion, institutional theories of law), private international law (transnational corporate accountability, SLAPPs), freedom of expression (SLAPPs)
Gregor Maucec: public international law, in particular international criminal law, international human rights law, international courts and tribunals, international migration and refugee law, international humanitarian law, international judicial behaviour and decision-making, international protection of minorities and vulnerable groups (limited availability for 2026-27)
Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou: International Human Rights Law
Katie Johnston: public international law (use of force, sources of law, law of armed conflict, law of international organisations, immunities, international legal theory)
Michelle Farrell: international law (international human rights, prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, counter-terrorism, climate and environment, Palestine and International Law, critical perspectives on international law), public law (climate law/action, Human Rights Act, counter-terrorism law)
Nicolas Brando: philosophy of law, children’s rights, TWAIL, decolonial theories (limited availability for 2026-27)
Padraig McAuliffe: human rights especially socio-economic rights, transitional justice, international law and neopatrimonialism, international law and the disintegration of the liberal international order
Robert Knox: international law (international legal theory, the law on the use of force, international environmental law, international law and racism) (limited availability for 2026-27)

Jurisprudence / Philosophy of Law / Legal and Political Theory

Adam Tucker: public law, constitutional law, administrative law, legal theory, jurisprudence, legal philosophy
Ben Murphy: use of force/collective, law of international organisations, legal and political theory (limited availability for 2026-27)
Brian Christopher Jones: UK public law generally, comparative public law, constitutions and constitutional theory, law and politics
Katy Sowery: animal law, critical approaches to jurisprudence, public law, environmental law
Mike Gordon: constitutional law, practice, theory and reform especially from a UK perspective, legal and political theory (theories of government, constitutionalism and sovereignty), the relationships between law and politics, democracy and rights (limited availability for 2026-27)
Nicolas Brando: philosophy of law, children’s rights, TWAIL, decolonial theories (limited availability for 2026-27)
Robert Knox: international law (international legal theory, the law on the use of force, international environmental law, international law and racism), law and political economy (limited availability for 2026-27)

Obligations (Tort / Contract)

John Fanning: torts
Paula Case: health law (regulation of professions/fitness to practise/professional accountability, mental capacity, clinical negligence litigation, regulation of medicinal cannabis), tort law (particularly projects relating to the shape/development of liabilities in the tort of negligence) (limited availability for 2026-27)
Sujitha Subramanian: intellectual property law; competition law; constitutional law (Asia); aspects of global health law; aspects of artificial intelligence law; free speech and defamation (limited availability for 2026-27)
Zaina Mahmoud: family law (surrogacy, assisted reproduction), medical law, comparative law, contract law (limited availability for 2026-27)

Public / Constitutional / Administrative Law

Adam Tucker: public law, constitutional law, administrative law, legal theory, jurisprudence, legal philosophy
Brian Christopher Jones: UK public law generally, comparative public law, constitutions and constitutional theory, law and politics
Greg Davies: devolution, human rights, prison law
Gregor Maucec: public international law, in particular international criminal law, international human rights law, international courts and tribunals, international migration and refugee law, international humanitarian law, international judicial behaviour and decision-making, international protection of minorities and vulnerable groups (limited availability for 2026-27)
James Organ: access to justice (free legal advice, civil rights, social rights, socio-legal studies in this area considered, e.g. law and social determinants of health) democracy, political rights, participatory democracy of particular interest
Katy Sowery: animal law, critical approaches to jurisprudence, public law, environmental law
Maayan Niezna: migrants’ rights, workers’ rights, anti-trafficking, legal mobilisation (limited availability for 2026-27)
Mark Sidel: charity law (the law affecting philanthropy, non-profit organisations, civil society, social enterprises), constitutional law in parts of Asia (limited availability for 2026-27)
Michelle Farrell: public law (climate law/action, Human Rights Act, counter-terrorism law), international law (international human rights law, prohibition of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, counter-terrorism, climate and environment, Palestine and International Law, critical perspectives on international law)
Mike Gordon: constitutional law, practice, theory and reform especially from a UK perspective, legal and political theory (theories of government, constitutionalism and sovereignty), the relationships between law and politics, democracy and rights (limited availability for 2026-27)
Nicola Barker: family law (marriage/civil partnership/legal recognition of relationships, donor conception, LGBTQ+ families), ECHR (family, marriage, religious rights, discrimination, the colonial clause), Human Rights Act 1998 (women’s rights, LGBT+ rights), UK Overseas Territories constitutions (limited availability for 2026-27)
Stephanie Reynolds: EU law (EU constitution, internal market, digital services, EU citizenship, fundamental rights), UK public law (human rights, constitutional law, private/public interface), online speech and disinformation
Sujitha Subramanian: intellectual property law; competition law; constitutional law (Asia); aspects of global health law; aspects of artificial intelligence law; free speech and defamation law (limited availability for 2026-27)
Thomas Horsley: public law (devolution/UK territorial constitution, general principles, judicial review), comparative law (legal transplants, theory and method)

Sports Law

Eleanor Drywood: sports law, children’s rights, immigration/asylum law

Technology and Law

Andreas Karapatakis: digital economy, financial crime (banking regulation), technology (blockchain, crypto, central bank digital currencies)
Firat Cengiz: competition law, law and economics, law of blockchain and crypto assets
Georgia Jenkins: intellectual property law, especially digital copyright law, platform liability and generative AI
Maciej Padamczyk: intellectual property law, biotechnology and law, technology law and society
Mustafa Yilmaz: maritime law, with particular emphasis on carriage of goods by sea and multimodal transport, including contemporary challenges arising from technological developments in shipping, such as autonomous vessels and the use of AI in maritime operations, as well as the impacts of climate change and environmental regulation on shipping
Sabine Jacques: intellectual property, AI, technology, cultural heritage, artistic freedom, creative reuse (limited availability for 2026-27)
Stephanie Reynolds: EU law (EU constitution, internal market, digital services, EU citizenship, fundamental rights), UK public law (human rights, constitutional law, private/public interface), online speech and disinformation
Sujitha Subramanian: intellectual property law; competition law; constitutional law (Asia); aspects of global health law; aspects of artificial intelligence law; free speech and defamation law (limited availability for 2026-27)