Professor of Law Professor Matthew Craven Public international law, international legal history (particularly colonialism and decolonisation), postcolonial and critical legal theory.
Lecturer in Law Dr Catriona Drew Public International Law; international legal history (particularly self-determination of peoples), and legal theory
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Kate Grady Military law, criminal law, international criminal law, peace and security, peacekeeping, critical legal theories
Professor of Law Professor Gina Heathcote International feminist legal theories; International Law especially laws on the use of force; collective security; political and legal theories; law of the sea; gender and conflict
Reader in Law, History and Anthropology Dr Vanja Hamzić Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.
Senior Lecturer in International Law Dr Michelle Staggs Kelsall International Law; Human Rights; Business & Human Rights; Law & Policy of Southeast Asia
Lecturer in Law Dr Olivia Lwabukuna Law & Development, Displacement, Resource Governance, Women’s Property Rights andAfrican Legal Theory and Legal Systems
Head of School of Law Scott Newton Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights.
Reader in Public Law Dr Nimer Sultany Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law.
Reader in Political Theory Dr Rahul Rao International relations theory, critical theory (especially postcolonial and queertheory), comparative political thought, gender and sexuality, South Asia
Professor Dianne Otto Dianne Otto is Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School and a Professorial Research Associate at the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS.
