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.
Professor of Islamic Law Professor Mashood Baderin Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States. Appointed as Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan by the UN Human Rights Council at its 19th Session on 23rd March 2012.
Professor of Law Professor Fareda Banda Human Rights of Women, English Family Law, Comparative Family Law focusing on Africa, Law and Society in Africa, Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Lecturer in Law Dr Samia Bano Muslim Family law in the UK and Europe, Family Law, Multiculturalism, Citizenship, Islamic Jurisprudence and Human Rights, Feminist and Critical Social and Political Theories, Issues concerning the rights of Muslim women and Gender Equality.
Lecturer in Law Dr Jonathan Bashi Rudahindwa International economic law; OHADA law; law and development (especially market creation/market integration, governance, and regional development in Sub-Saharan Africa); regionalism; international inequality.
Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Vivienne Bradwell English Company Law, English Commercial Law, French Company Law and Chinese Company Law.
Professor of Law Professor Matthew Craven Public international law, international legal history (particularly colonialism and decolonisation), postcolonial and critical legal theory.
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Clara Della Croce Asylum and Immigration law (particularly detention of migrants and foreign prisoners); EU law (particularly migration); Human Rights law; Law and Development
Professor of Law Professor Philippe Cullet International and domestic law and policy concerning the environment, natural resources, water, sanitation, agriculture, sustainable development, climate change, health; social rights; intellectual property; India.
Lecturer in Law Dr Catriona Drew Public International Law; international legal history (particularly self-determination of peoples), and legal theory
Lecturer in Law Mr Ian D Edge Middle East laws particularly the civil and commercial law of Egypt ,Saudi Arabia and the Gulf; Islamic law and particularly the law of succession, wealth planning and Islamic Finance; International Commercial Arbitration; Conflict of laws and Contract
Senior Lecturer in Transnational Financial Law Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack Specialisms: transnational financial law, law of Islamic finance, contract law, comparative law.
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Kate Grady Military law, criminal law, international criminal law, peace and security, peacekeeping, critical legal theories
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.
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
Lecturer in Law Dr Catherine Jenkins Human rights; transitional justice; law and conflict; international criminal law; post-conflict reform and reconstruction; legal developments in post-apartheid South Africa; law and society in Africa.
Senior Lecturer in International Law Dr Michelle Staggs Kelsall International Law; Human Rights; Business & Human Rights; Law & Policy of Southeast Asia
Lecturer in Law and Gender Dr Sidonia Lucia Kula My research focuses on how law and gender interacts with national/international instruments and institutions in the protection of (Congolese) refugees against sexual and gender based violence in Angola.
Professor of South Asian Law Professor Martin W Lau Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental law, Islamic law
Visiting Professor Professor Peter Leyland Specialises in public law and comparative public law. Co-editor of the series Constitutional Systems of the World published by Hart and contributor of the first volume in the series. His research interests fall under the broad headings: UK constitutional law; UK administrative law; comparative public law; Thailand’s constitutional and legal system.
Lecturer in Law Dr Olivia Lwabukuna Law & Development, Displacement, Resource Governance, Women’s Property Rights andAfrican Legal Theory and Legal Systems
Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law Dr Makeen F Makeen Intellectual property (particularly comparative copyright law); information technology law; contract law; commercial law in the Middle East
Senior Teaching Fellow Dr Yonit Manor-Percival Dr. Percival specialises in the interface between law, society and corporations within the framework of the global political economy, with a focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). She completed her PhD research in international investment protection law at Queen Mary University of London. Her thesis employs a multidisciplinary approach, including critical and post-colonial theory, political economy and legal analysis, to unpack the PRC ‘harmonious world’ paradigm. The thesis examines this paradigm through the lens of the global and China’s own bilateral investment treaties program, considering the way it both challenges as well as reinforces the global neoliberal order.
Lecturer in Law Dr Gaofeng Meng Property Law, Contract Law, Company Law, Chinese Law, Law and Economics, Law and Development, Social-legal Studies, Human Rights
Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice Dr Grace (Yu) Mou Criminal justice; criminal law; comparative criminal justice; criminal evidence; Chinese law; criminology; Asian legal systems; socio-legal studies.
Senior Teaching Fellow Mr Barrie Nathan Principal Lecturer on the Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme for Young Chinese Lawyers (1998 – 2011). Hart's Mooting and Oral Skills Senior Teaching Fellow.
Reader in Law Dr Paul O'Connell Public Law, Human Rights (particularly Socio-Economic Rights), Legal Theory, Comparative Law and International Law.
Professor of International Human Rights Law Professor Lutz Oette Public international law; human rights, particularly prohibition of torture; victims' rights and reparation; human rights, law reform and justice in Sudan; international refugee law
Lecturer in Environmental and Climate Change Law Dr Birsha Ohdedar Climate Change, Water, International Law, Human Rights
Professor in International Commercial Law Professor Emilia Onyema International arbitration (commercial and investment); OHADA law; Commercial contracts; International sale of goods; International carriage of goods; Nigerian customary laws.
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Kanika Sharma Law and colonialism; Law and society in South Asia (especially gender issues); Law, image, and architecture; Psychoanalytic jurisprudence; Critical legal theory
Reader in Public Law Dr Nimer Sultany Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law.
Senior Lecturer in Law Dr Mayur Suresh Anti-terror laws (particularly of South Asia); law and anthropology; legal theory (particularly on theories of emergency legality); sexuality and gender identity in South Asia.
Professor of Law with particular reference to the Middle East and North Africa Professor Lynn Welchman Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law
Lecturer in Law Dr Nuhu Yidana Crisis and consumer protection in Africa; quality of goods (obligations, remedies, and redress in Ghana and the UK as influenced in EU law); the African Continental Free Trade Area and consumer contract law.
Emeritus Professor of Law Professor Werner Menski Classical and modern Hindu law; Muslim Law; Laws of South Asia; Family law; Comparative law; South Asians in the UK; Immigration law; Ethnic minorities
Emeritus Professor of International Commercial Law Professor Peter Muchlinski The regulation of multinational enterprises, international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, foreign investment law, WTO law and practice, competition law, international commercial law and development.
Emeritus Professor of Law Professor Michael J E Palmer Chinese Law & Society, Comparative Dispute Resolution, Chinese Family Studies, Chinese Legal Professions and Administrative Justice in China.
Emeritus Professor of Law Professor Carol G. S. Tan Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law
Research Associate Amel Makhlouf Cross-border disputes, international arbitration, commercial contracts, banking and finance, Islamic law and finance, Middle East laws, comparative law
Professorial Research Associate Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini Islam and feminism; Islamic family law, politics of gender and family law in Iran and Morocco
