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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

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

Director of the Baroness Hale Legal Clinic

Research interests:

  • Clinical legal education
  • Access to justice

Gabrielle Carpenter

Associate Lecturer

Reader and Joint Programme Leader

Research interests:

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

Naoise Coakley

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

Helen Cozens

Postgraduate Research Administrator

York Law School Admin Office

Chair in Policing and Social Justice

Chair, Research

Francess Daly

York Law School Clinic Administrator

Frank Dignan

Associate Lecturer (T&S) Problem Based Learning

Cat Ellis

Associate Lecturer

Research Associate

Research interests:

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

Jelena Erstic

General Administrator

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Twins
  • Contract Law
  • Private Law

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

Senior Lecturer

PhD Programme Leader

Research interests:

  • Public international law
  • Legal and political philosophy
  • Law and social theory
  • Cultural legal studies

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

Johanna Hull

Associate Lecturer

Professor

Research interests:

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

Dr Natalie James

Research Fellow

Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights Law

Research interests:

  • Refugee and migration law and policy

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

Marysia Koc

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations, Departments of Law and Politics

Jochem Koers

Lecturer

Dr Wendy Laws

Associate Lecturer

Postgraduate Researcher

Director of the Sustainability Clinic and Baroness Hale Law Clinic Supervisor

Undergraduate Admissions

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

Reader

Research interests:

  • Counter-terrorism and national security
  • Accountability and transparency
  • Media law

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

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

Giorgio Minelli

Postgraduate Researcher

Chair of Private Law

Research interests:

  • Tort
  • Contract
  • Commercial law
  • AI law

Graduate Teaching Assistant

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

Angela Paul

Research Associate

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

Research interests:

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

Sophie Powell

School Administrator

sophie.powell@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 325802

York Law School Reception

Safeena Rafiq

Associate Lecturer

Chair, Board of Examiners

Jade Richards

PA to Head of School

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

Laura Shipway

Undergraduate Administrator

laura.shipway@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 322678

York Law School Admin Office

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

Angela Smith

Associate Lecturer

Louise Stokes

Student Services Manager and UG Disability & Welfare Officer

louise.stokes@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 325810

York Law School Admin Office

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

Research Associate

Senior Lecturer

Chair of Board of Studies

Research interests:

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

Mike Turner

Undergraduate Student Services Coordinator

mike.turner@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 325812

York Law School Admin Office

Associate Lecturer / Postgraduate Researcher

Le Nam Vo

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Art law
  • Property law
  • Land law
  • Expropriation

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

Postgraduate Taught Administrator

laura.wood@york.ac.uk

+44 (0)1904 325737

York Law School Admin Office

Chair, Research Committee

Research interests:

  • European law
  • Regulatory governance

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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