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Jennifer Sigafoos

Professor Jennifer Sigafoos
DPhil (Oxon), JD, MSc

Teaching

I lead and teach on a number of undergraduate modules and am always interested in how we can innovate to further develop students and capture their interest.

Foundations of Law and Social Justice

Since 2022-23, I have led Law 102, Foundations of Law and Social Justice. This module provides an introduction to the legal method and legal sources, including an intensive induction to law over the first two weeks of the year. We then use and develop those skills to build debate arguments on important social justice questions. For 2026-27, these debate topics are: modern slavery and organ trafficking, and climate justice.

Public Interest Lawyering

I also regularly run and teach on Law 364/369, a module that trains students in aspects of public interest lawyering and places them with local organisations such as advice agencies, food banks and food pantries.

Charity Law

I also regularly lead and teach on Law 377, a team-taught module from the Charity Law & Policy Unit, which provides students with the opportunity to debate current topics of interest in charity law and policy. Debates covered include: do Independent Schools provide enough public benefits to be charitable, or when should charities be able to discriminate?

Modules for 2025-26

DEBATES IN CHARITY LAW

Module code: LAW377

Role: Module Co-ordinator

FOUNDATIONS OF LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

Module code: LAW102

Role: Module Co-ordinator

FOUNDATIONS OF LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (S1)

Module code: LAW001

Role: Module Co-ordinator

Public Interest Lawyering – Semester 2

Module code: LAW369

Role: Teaching

Supervised Theses