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Over 80 people work in York Law School.
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Research interests:
- Obligations
- Law and AI
- Legal history
- Public law
Research interests:
- Environmental law
- The legal profession
- Legal education
Research interests:
- Constitutional Law
- Administrative Law
- Counter-Terrorism and Security Law
- Human Rights Law
Research interests:
- Bioethics
- Human rights
- Law and development
- Global justice
Research interests:
- Clinical legal education
- Access to justice
Research interests:
- Public international law
- Human rights law
- International humanitarian law
- Transitional justice law and religion
Research interests:
- legal education
- critical thinking
- social justice
- legal pluralisms
Research interests:
- Housing and homelessness policy
- Local government
- Qualitative and mixed-method research
Matthew Crossland
On secondment to Health Sciences until March 2026
Research interests:
- Human Rights
- Penal Reform
- Contempt of Court Sanctions for Breach of Anti-social Behaviour Injunctions
- Sentencing of mothers
- Rights of the child when mothers are sentenced
Research interests:
- Healthcare Law
- Human Rights
- Information
Research interests:
- Law and Reproduction
- Medical Law
- Mental Capacity Law
- Mental Health Law
- Tort
Research interests:
- Mental health law and mental capacity law
- Health law
- Socio-legal studies
- Abortion law
LMB/282
Research interests:
- Japanese history (specifically the Meiji and Shōwa eras)
- Collective memory and violence
- International criminal law
- Transitional justice
Research interests:
- Traditional therapeutic knowledge
- Genetic resources
- Protection of bionovation
- Patent law
Research interests:
- Housing - both public and property law
- Gypsy and traveller
- Legal education
Research interests:
- Refugee and migration law and policy
- Human rights law
- Human rights lawyering
- Activist risk and wellbeing
LMB/281
Research interests:
- Cryptocurrencies
- Financial crime
- Financial Regulation
- Legal history
- History of money
- Sociology of money
Research interests:
- Social Care
- Administrative Fairness
- Co-production
- Learning Disabilities
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
Research interests:
- Social welfare law
- Local government
- Adminstrative law
- Socio-legal studies
Research interests:
- Tort
- Contract
- Commercial law
- AI law
Richard Nolan
Research interests:
- Trust Law
- Corporate Law
- Organisational Law
- Philosophy of Law
Research interests:
- Mental health law
- Criminal law
- Criminology and criminal justice
- Human rights law
Research interests:
- International human rights law
- International/transnational criminal law & justice
- Refugee/migration law
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
Research interests:
- Human rights
- Criminal law
- Socio-legal theory
- Law and discourse
Research interests:
- Public law
- Administrative justice
- Law in the 'everyday'
- Socio-legal studies
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Research interests:
- Legal education: academic; vocational; professional
- Regulation and quality assurance of legal education
Research interests:
- Contract law
- Commercial law
- Land law
- Personal property law
Research interests:
- Public law
- Administrative justice
- Procedural justice
- Empirical legal studies
Research interests:
- Legal theory
- Law and technology
- Domestic and comparative public law
- Constitutional theory
LMB/272
Research interests:
- Art Law
- Heritage Law
- Property Law
- Land Law
- Ecclesiastical Law
LMB/280
Research interests:
- Law, gender and sexuality
- Ageing and equality
- Sexual harassment and violence in HE
- Inclusive legal pedagogies
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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
Kathryn Wright
Research interests:
- EU law
- EU policy-making
- UK's relationship with the EU
- Post-legislative scrutiny and evaluation
LMB/258
Research interests:
- Contract and Commercial Law
- International Investment Law
- International Dispute Settlement
- Public International Law
- Energy Law
- AI