There is a thriving postgraduate research community in the Law School. Details about the research currently being carried out by postgraduate researchers in the School can be found on our profiles page.

Academic staff in Law are particularly interested in supervising in the following research areas:

Professor Diego Acosta Arcarazo

Migration Law, European Law, Citizenship Law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Foluke Adebisi

Decolonial thought in legal education and its intersection with a history of changing ideas of the 'human.' Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Kathryn Allinson

International refugee and migration law. International humanitarian, criminal and human rights law, armed conflict and displacement, state responsibility. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Andrew Bell

Private law (primarily tort and contract) from doctrinal, comparative and historical perspectives, employer liability and factual uncertainty. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Lois Bibbings

Present day and historical law - with interdisciplinary interests across the social sciences and humanities for example, legal history, criminal justice/criminology, medical law, family law, research methods and ethics. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Giacomo Biggio

Interested in the intersection between international security law and emerging technologies, with a specific focus on how international humanitarian law applies to cyberspace and artificial intelligence. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Alan Bogg

The general fields of labour, employment, and work laws. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Beril Boz

Intersection of law and digital technologies, particularly data protection law, the governance of emerging digital technologies, theories on consent and autonomy, and children's digital rights. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Patrick Capps

Public international law, jurisprudence, sociology of law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor John Coggon

Health law and policy, with particular focus on public and global health ethics and law, and mental capacity law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Jennifer Collins

Criminal Law, Criminal Justice, European Human Rights Law. Available as primary supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Joanne Conaghan

Legal responses to sexual violence, tort law, jurisprudence and legal theory, law and gender, labour and employment law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Robert Craig

Public law, UK Constitutional Law, Legal Philosophy. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Katie Cruz

Feminist and Marxist theory, law and political economy, regulation of sex work, trafficking for sexual exploitation, sex tourism, regulation of care work, free/unfree labour, universal basic income and services. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor James Davey

Insurance, Contract Remedies, Contract Theory, Fraud. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Sandra Duffy

International human rights, gender (identity) and law, reproductive justice/abortion rights, postcolonial law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Colin Gavaghan

Regulation of emerging technologies, law and reproductive/genetic technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics and law, law and digital technologies, end of life law and ethics, neurolaw. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Paula Giliker

Comparative private law, tort law, contract law, European private law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Robert Greally

Public Law, Constitutional Theory, Parliamentary Reform, Democratic Politics, Populism. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Emily Hancox

EU constitutional law, hierarchies in law, EU legal reasoning, EU fundamental rights, retained EU law, EU non-discrimination law and free movement law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Eleanore Hickman

Corporate governance, company law, corporate culture and the digital transformation (AI, Fintech, Platforms) as they relate to corporate law and governance. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne

Public international law, state responsibility, international dispute settlement, international humanitarian law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Ilias Ioannou

Law and Technology, Commercial and Contract Law, Shipping Law, Law and Economics, Blockchain, Financial Technologies. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Lala Ireland

Competition Law, Comparative Law, Development Economics, West African regional laws, Electricity markets, intersection between competition law and Intellectual property. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Vaclav Janecek

A private law scholar, focusing on legal remedies and issues at the interface of law, philosophy, and computer science. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Chathuni Jayathilaka

Contract law; property law; contract of sale. Available as primary supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Catherine Kelly

Law's interaction with science and medicine in both historical and contemporary contexts. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Edward Kirton-Darling

Socio-legal approaches to public law, housing law, inquests, public law, and land law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Katarzyna Kryla-Cudna

Sale of goods, transnational commercial law, comparative private law (contract and tort law), contract law, contract and tort law in the context of environmental sustainability. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Judy Laing

Mental health & capacity law, policy and human rights. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Mrs Sumayyah Malna

Legal Education, Clinical Legal Studies, inquests, anti-racist lawyers, race and justice, judicial racism, mental capacity, mental health, community care. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Jacopo Martire

Critical theory (with a specific interest in the works of Michel Foucault), philosophy of law, legal and political theory, law and humanities, EU political and constitutional theory, and law and technology. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Joanna McCunn

History of English law, contract law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Sheelagh McGuinness

Health law, regulation of reproduction (particularly reproductive loss). Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Greg Messenger

World trade law and policy, law of economic diplomacy, interaction between world trade law and public policy objectives including public health, foreign policy, climate diplomacy, sustainable development. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Jule Mulder

European law, European, international, and comparative gender equality law, comparative methodology, and employment and equality law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Rachel Murray

Human rights: particularly in Africa, torture prevention, national human rights institutions, public international law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Michael Naughton

Specialises in miscarriages of justice, false allegations and wrongful conviction and imprisonment. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Tonia Novitz

Labour rights, collective labour voice, international and EU trade, sustainability and migration. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Ken Oliphant

Pursues research on a wide-ranging set of topics relating to English, European and comparative tort law, and compensation for incapacity. Welcomes research supervision in the areas of liability for climate change and liability for AI. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Joshua Paine

International economic law (with a primary focus on international investment law, and secondary focus on international trade law), and international dispute settlement (focus on international courts and tribunals). Available as second supervisor for 24/25. 

Professor Gavin Phillipson

Hate Speech, Comparative Free Speech Law. Public Law especially constitutional dialogue, the prerogative, bicameralism, constitutional conventions. Privacy in English law and comparative privacy law. Anti-terrorism law and human rights. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Oliver Quick

Health law, criminal law, patient safety, professional regulation, health innovation, healthcare crimes. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Katie Richards

Insurance contract law, insurance fraud, with particular interest in the claims process and causation. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Caoimhe Ring

Intellectual property law, climate change governance, science and technology studies, law and political economy, innovation studies, and socio-legal studies (including qualitative research methodologies). Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Julian Rivers

Legal and constitutional theory, public law, law and religion. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Mr Matt Rollinson

Criminal law and mens rea, especially oblique intention. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Basil Salman

Jurisprudence, legal philosophy, including moral and political philosophy; specialising in the field of liberty, rights, and nature of criminal wrongs. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Albert Sanchez Graells

Law and economics, technology and public law, EU law and policy, competition law, public procurement and economic law more generally, government transformation, public sector digitalisation. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Gwen Seabourne

Medieval legal history. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Sahar Shah - Climate change and law, critical legal studies, anti-colonial legal theory. Available as second supervisor for 24/25. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Sally Sheldon

Health care law and ethics and the legal regulation of gender, with a particular focus on abortion law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Gemma Short

Research interests are Feminist Jurisprudence and Family Law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Elen R Stokes

Environmental law and policy, the regulation of new technologies, the role of law in imagining, making and acting on futures the relationship between law and the future. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Keith Syrett

Health care law, with a particular focus on health systems, the human right to health, resource allocation, health technology assessment and public health law. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Professor Philip Syrpis

European Union competence, EU internal market, examining the relationship between the EU legislature and judiciary in that context, and on the process and implications of Brexit. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Clare Torrible

Policing and criminal justice. In particular police accountability, regulation and governance processes. Also evidence based policing, police policy and practices (e.g. stop and search) police media relations and police occupational culture. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Katherine Wade

Interested in supervising in issues affecting children in medical law, bioethics and family law, children's rights. Undertakes quantitative research/empirical research with children. Interested in participatory research methodology with children. Available as primary or second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Tiffany Wang

International Trade Law. Available as second supervisor for 24/25.

Dr Beke Zwingmann

German, English and comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, European constitutional law (esp. relationship of EU law to national constitutional law). Available as second supervisor for 24/25.