Members
Human Rights Expertise
Members of the Human Rights Law Centre are acknowledged experts in human rights and have helped draft global human rights treaties and other international laws; advised on bills of rights and rights of vulnerable groups to governments around the world; provided expert advice on human rights to a range of inter-governmental organisations, including the United Nations, and Council of Europe, and have published extensively on a wide range of human issues. The particular legal expertise of members of the Human Rights Law Centre has led to invitations by courts for members to submit expert legal briefs and members have lectured around the world. Members of the Human Rights Law Centre also sit on the boards of a wide range of human rights organisations.
Members
Director of the Human Rights Law Centre - Professor Merris Amos
Merris Amos is Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law. She has previously held posts at the University of Essex, University of Westminster and the Australian Human Rights Commission. Her research and teaching focusses on national human rights law, in particular the UK Human Rights Act 1998, and the relationship between national and international human rights laws and institutions. Her book, Human Rights Law Second Edition (Oxford: Hart, 2014) is an important reference point for scholars, students and practitioners. The Third Edition will be published in 2021. Since 2014 she has been a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association and in 2018 she was appointed as the UK member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law. She is an Expert member of Britain in Europe.
Dr John Adenitire
Senior Lecturer, School of Law
Research interests: conscientious objection; non-human animals; public law; legal theory; comparative public law: law and religion
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Professor Lizzie Barmes
Professor of Labour Law, School of Law
Research interests: equality law; employment law
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Dr Rebecca Bates
Lecturer in Environmental Law, School of Law
Research interests: international environmental law; water law and governance; environmental governance and rights
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Professor Alan Dignam
Professor of Corporate Law, School of Law
Research interests: corporations and human rights; artificial intelligence and corporations
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Professor Janet Dine
Professor of International Economic Development Law, School of Law
Research interests: the interaction of human rights law and international trade law
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Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice
Professor of Public International Law, School of Law
Research interests: international environmental law; the law of treaties; indigenous peoples
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Professor Johanna Gibson
Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, School of Law
Research interests: intellectual property and the creative industries; animal welfare law
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Professor Jonathan Griffiths
Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Head of the Department of Law, School of Law
Research interests: copyright law; the relationship between intellectual property law and human rights
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Professor Elspeth Guild
Professor of Law, School of Law
Research interests: EU immigration law; EU privacy and data protection law
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Professor Eric Heinze
Professor of Law and Humanities, School of Law
Research interests: legal philosophy; justice theory; law and politics; free speech
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Dr Yulia Ioffe
Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Law
Research interests: child law and policy; rights of asylum seeking children
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Professor Rosa Lastra
Sir John Lubbock Chair in Banking Law, School of Law
Research interests: financial law and regulation; law reform in emerging economies; banking law; international economic law
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Professor Violeta Moreno-Lax
Professor of Law, School of Law
Research interests: international and European refugee law and migration studies; public international law; EU law with a focus on constitutional foundations and general principles
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Professor Rachael Mulheron
Professor of Tort Law and Civil Justice, School of Law
Research interests: class actions jurisprudence; tort law; medical negligence
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Dr Eva Nanopoulos
Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law
Research interests: EU law; international law; human rights; critical legal theory
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Dr Hedi Viterbo
Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law
Research interests: legal issues concerning state violence, childhood and sexuality from an interdisciplinary and global perspective
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