TT Arvind

Profile

Biography

Professor TT Arvind

BA, LLB (Hons) (NLSIU), PhD (UEA), PG Dip HEP (UEA)

I am Professor of Law at York Law School. I joined York in September 2007 as one of the founding members of the law school and returned to it in September 2018, after spending six years at Newcastle from 2012-2018.

I have also previously worked at the University of East Anglia, and spent some time in commercial practice in India.

My research draws on frameworks from across the social sciences to develop new ways of understanding the relationship between law, individuals, and governing bodies, particulrly in the context of commercial societies.

Research

Overview

I have written on, and retain an interest in, a range of areas of law, including private law, public law, financial law, legal realism, and legal history.  I also have a strong interest in using empirical and other systematic methodologies in the study of law.  Together with Lindsay Stirton (Sussex), I have pioneered the extension to legal analysis of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Bayesian IRT models.  I have also done considerable work on using evolutionary and historical approaches to analyse current legal questions, with specific emphasis on the intellectual, social, economic and other influences that shape legal change. 

My current areas of interest for the purpose of supervision are listed below.  Feel free to contact me if you’re interested in pursuing research on a topic related to any of these areas.  Interdisciplinary research is particularly welcome, but I’m also keen to see good proposals taking a more traditionally legal approach:

• Private law

• Public law

• Commercial law, including commercial arbitration

• Legal realism (both American and Scandinavian)

• Empirical study of legal decision-making (especially empirically studying judgments)

• Legal history, especially of the 18th and 19th centuries

• Law and emerging technologies (including, but not limited to, AI and autonomous systems)

• Private law and the regulatory state

• Policy reasoning in the law (including private and public law)

• Legal control of discretionary decision making (whether in public law, private law, or commercial law)

• Popular constitutionalism and legal consciousness (from theoretical or historical perspectives)

External activities

Memberships

• AHRC Peer Review College member

• Founder member of the North-East Regional Obligations Group

• Council member, British Association of Comparative Law

Teaching

Undergraduate

• I teach the law of Obligations in Years 1 and 2 of the degree, and am the subject co-ordinator for Obligations in Year 2.

• Advanced Legal Skills (autumn term only)

• Law, Commerce, and Finance

I also have a strong interest in developing problem-based and experiential approaches to teaching and learning in law, both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.