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Over 80 people work in York Law School.

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Aysha Alshehri

Postgraduate Researcher

Head of York Law School

Research interests:

  • Obligations
  • Law and AI
  • Legal history
  • Public law

Aparna Ashok

Postgraduate Researcher

Conrad Bank

Associate Lecturer

Professor

Research interests:

  • Environmental law
  • The legal profession
  • Legal education

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Bioethics
  • Human rights
  • Law and development
  • Global justice

Sarah Blakeman

Staff Administrator

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Director of the Baroness Hale Legal Clinic

Research interests:

  • Clinical legal education
  • Access to justice

Valerie Burfield

Student Services Administrator (UG)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Gabrielle Carpenter

Associate Lecturer

Ange Chapman

Student Services Coordinator (Engagement)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Reader and Joint Programme Leader

Research interests:

  • Public international law
  • Human rights law
  • International humanitarian law
  • Transitional justice law and religion

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • legal education
  • critical thinking
  • social justice
  • legal pluralisms

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Housing and homelessness policy
  • Local government
  • Qualitative and mixed-method research

Sarah Couttie-Cunningham

Staff Administration Manager

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Helen Cozens

Student Services Administrator (PGR)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Chair in Policing and Social Justice

Chair, Research

Matthew Crossland

Staff Administration Coordinator

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Francess Daly

York Law School Clinic Administrator

Cat Ellis

Associate Lecturer

Rona Epstein

Honorary Fellow

Jelena Erstic

Staff Administrator

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Janet Feather-Moore

Associate Lecturer

Postgraduate Researcher

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Mental health law and mental capacity law
  • Health law
  • Socio-legal studies
  • Abortion law

Deputy Head of Department (Operations)

Postgraduate Researcher

Sophie Gibson

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to York Law School)

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Employment law

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Japanese history (specifically the Meiji and Shōwa eras)
  • Collective memory and violence
  • International criminal law
  • Transitional justice

Senior Lecturer

Chair, Graduate School Board

Research interests:

  • Traditional therapeutic knowledge
  • Genetic resources
  • Protection of bionovation
  • Patent law

Postgraduate Researcher

Victoria Hill

Student Services Administrator (PGT)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Professor

Research interests:

  • Housing - both public and property law
  • Gypsy and traveller
  • Legal education

Oscar Johnston

Student Services Administrator (PGT)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Professor of international human rights law

Research interests:

  • Refugee and migration law and policy
  • Human rights law
  • Human rights lawyering
  • Activist risk and wellbeing

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Research Support Assistant (Administrative Fairness Lab)

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Cryptocurrencies
  • Financial crime
  • Financial Regulation
  • Legal history
  • History of money
  • Sociology of money

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Postgraduate Researcher

Jochem Koers

Lecturer

Dr Wendy Laws

Associate Lecturer

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Social Care
  • Administrative Fairness
  • Co-production
  • Learning Disabilities 

Postgraduate Researcher

Baroness Hale Law Clinic Supervisor

Undergraduate Admissions

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Associate Lecturer

Professor

Research interests:

  • Legal and political philosophy
  • The justification of statement punlishment and related issues
  • Criminal law theory
  • Issues of responsibility in distributive and corrective justice

Cerys Mawson

Lecturer

Danielle Maxwell

Student Services Administrator (PGR)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Sarah Maynard

Head of Faculty Operations

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Social welfare law
  • Local government
  • Adminstrative law
  • Socio-legal studies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Giorgio Minelli

Postgraduate Researcher

Chair of Private Law

Research interests:

  • Tort
  • Contract
  • Commercial law
  • AI law

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Richard Nolan

Professor Emeritus

Research interests:

  • Trust Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Organisational Law
  • Philosophy of Law

Professor

Equality and Diversity Champion

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Mental health law
  • Criminal law
  • Criminology and criminal justice
  • Human rights law

Professor

Research interests:

  • International human rights law
  • International/transnational criminal law & justice
  • Refugee/migration law

Lecturer and Joint Programme Leader, LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice

Research interests:

  • Indigenous peoples' rights
  • Human rights practice
  • International human rights law
  • International humanitarian law
  • International criminal law
  • Public international law
  • Transitional and transformative justice

Theano Pavlidou

Staff Administrator

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Lecturer, Co-convenor, LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice

Research interests:

  • Human rights
  • Criminal law
  • Socio-legal theory
  • Law and discourse

Links Pollen

Student Services Administrator (Engagement and Wellbeing)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Sophie Powell

Student Services Administrator (UG)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Safeena Rafiq

Associate Lecturer

Michael Regan

Teaching Allocation and Workload Administrator

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Chair, Board of Examiners

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Human rights and criminal law

Postgraduate Researcher

Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Public law
  • Administrative justice
  • Law in the 'everyday'
  • Socio-legal studies

Sarah Scott

Associate Lecturer

Director of Learning and Teaching

Faculty Deputy Associate Director of Learning & Teaching

Research interests:

    Legal education: academic; vocational; professional
    Regulation and quality assurance of legal education

Jenny Steele

Emeritus Professor

Louise Stokes

Student Administration Manager

and UG Disability & Welfare Officer

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Heather Taylor

Student Services Coordinator (PGT)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Associate Lecturer

Reader

Research interests:

  • Contract law
  • Commercial law
  • Land law
  • Personal property law

Karen Thompson

Associate Lecturer

Professor of Public Law

Research interests:

  • Public law
  • Administrative justice
  • Procedural justice
  • Empirical legal studies

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Legal theory
  • Law and technology
  • Domestic and comparative public law
  • Constitutional theory

Mike Turner

Student Services Coordinator (UG)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Associate Lecturer / Postgraduate Researcher

Le Nam Vo

Katie Walton

Student Services Manager

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Chair of Property and Art Law

Research interests:

  • Art Law
  • Heritage Law
  • Property Law
  • Land Law
  • Ecclesiastical Law

Lecturer in Law

Reader

Deputy Head of Department (Strategy)

Research interests:

  • Law, gender and sexuality
  • Ageing and equality
  • Sexual harassment and violence in HE
  • Inclusive legal pedagogies

Employability Tutor/Lecturer

Postgraduate researcher / PBL Tutor

Reader

Research interests:

  • Financial law (financial regulation, banking and society, financial crime)
  • Trust and equity (financial regulation, banking and society, financial crime)
  • Law and history and legal history
  • Legal education and pedagogy

Laura Wood

Student Services Administrator (PGT)

York Law School, Department of Sociology and Centre for Women's Studies

Kathryn Wright

Honorary Fellow

Dr Di Yang

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Contract and Commercial Law
  • International Investment Law
  • International Dispute Settlement
  • Public International Law
  • Energy Law 
  • AI 

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