
People
We are a friendly department of academics, researchers, teachers, tutors and administrators, with additional staff within the Faculty and the University to support us.
Academic staff

Professor Ryan Abbott
Professor of Law and Health Sciences

Thekli Anastasiou
Teaching Fellow

Dr Joshua Andresen
Associate Professor of National Security and Foreign Relations Law

Dr Hrafn Asgeirsson
Reader in Philosophy and Law

Dr Mikolaj Barczentewicz
Senior Lecturer in Public Law and Legal Theory

Dr Stephen Bero
Senior Lecturer

Dr Conor Casey
Senior Lecturer in Public Law & Legal Theory

Nick Clapham
Senior Teaching Fellow

Professor Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov
Head of School

Professor Kenneth Ehrenberg
Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy

Dr Emily Finch
Senior Lecturer in Law

Mikolaj Firlej
Lecturer in AI Law and Regulation

Professor Francesco Giglio
Professor of Civil and Private Law

Dr Nicola Giglio
Senior Teaching Fellow in Private Law

Professor Melissa Hamilton
Professor of Law & Criminal Justice

Timothy James
Senior Teaching Fellow in Law

Dr Tehmina Khan
Senior Lecturer in Law

Dr Ambrose Lee
Senior Lecturer in Legal Theory, Director of Postgraduate Research (Progression)

Claire Lillywhite
Senior Lecturer Professional Development and Employability

Dr Ira Lindsay
Reader

Professor Rosalind Malcolm
Professor of Law, Director of Environmental Regulatory Research Group (ERRG)

Dr Marie Newhouse
Associate Professor in Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy

Dr Noreen O'Meara
Associate Professor (Reader), Human Rights, European and Environmental Law. Co-director: Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law (SCIEL).

Professor Dennis Patterson
Professor of Legal Philosophy

Dr Katy Peters
Teaching Fellow in Law (Tort; Medical Law & Ethics); Co-Director in Placement and Careers; Senior Professional Training Tutor; Post-Graduate Researcher (Medical Law)

Professor Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy (Jurisprudence)

Dr Arman Sarvarian
Reader in Public International Law, Fellow of the Institute for Sustainability

Antony Starza-Allen
Senior Teaching Fellow in Law

Dr Christopher Taggart
Senior Lecturer

Dr Vickie Thanapal
Associate Professor, Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching)

Krystof Turek
Teaching Fellow in Private Law, Director of Validations

Elizabeth Williams
Principal Teaching Fellow in Law, Director of Clinical Legal Education Programmes
Visiting staff
Name | Role | |
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Prof Giovanni Sartor | Visiting Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence | |
Akber Datoo | Visiting Professor in Practice (CEO, D2 Legal Technology) |
Former visitors
Name | Role | |
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Prof Juan Ruiz Manero | Visiting Professor | j.ruizmanero@surrey.ac.uk |
Prof Maggie Mao | Visiting Professor | |
Prof Ángeles Rodenas | Visiting Professor | a.rodenas@surrey.ac.uk |
Emeritus staff
Name | Role | |
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Prof Alison Clarke | Emeritus Professor | a.c.clarke@surrey.ac.uk |
Prof Alison Firth | Emeritus Professor | a.firth@surrey.ac.uk |
Prof Margot Horspool | Emeritus Professor | margot.horspool@surrey.ac.uk |
Prof Robert Upex | Emeritus Professor | r.upex@surrey.ac.uk |
Associate staff
Name | Role | |
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Dr Charles Chatterjee | Associate | c.chatterjee@surrey.ac.uk |
Mr Richard Holt | Associate | r.holt@surrey.ac.uk |
PhD research students
Recently awarded PhD's
Name | Year PhD Awarded / Viva passed | Dissertation Title | Past / Current Position (if known) |
Daniel Peixoto Murata | Viva passed Dec 2021 | Reason, Respect, and the Law: Bernard Williams and Legal Normativity | |
Katy Peters | Viva passed Dec 2021 | Challenging Capacity: Effective Participation and Vulnerability in Clinical Negligence Litigation | Teaching Fellow, School of Law, University of Surrey |
Maria Louca | Viva passed Nov 2021 | Jurisdictional Objections in International Courts and Tribunals | Lecturer, School of Law, University of Exeter (from September 2022) |
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Amel Ketani | Viva passed Aug 2021 | Improving the Practice of Family Mediation in England and Wales | Senior Law Lecturer, BPP University |
Mala Sharma | Viva passed Aug 2021 | Reforming Investor-State Arbitration | Lecturer, London South Bank University |
Chunping Bush | Viva passed June 2021 | The Rise of Dagong Global Credit Rating Agency and the International Credit Rating Agencies Reforms | Lecturer, School of Law, University of Exeter |
Evelyn Ehigie | Awarded Nov 2020 | Evaluating Civil Forfeiture as an Anti-Corruption Mechanism in Nigeria | |
Jessica Walsh | Awarded June 2020 | Judicial councils and the process for the removal of lower-court judges in Argentina: judicial independence at the federal level, in the Autonomous city of Buenos Aires, and the province of Tucuman. | Lecturer, University of Buckingham |
https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/dr-jessica-a-s-walsh/ | |||
Ryan Abbott | Awarded March 2020 | The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law | Professor, School of Law, University of Surrey |
Melanie McGlone | Awarded Jan 2020 | The protection of land, as part of the environment, for the future | Senior Lecturer, Westminster Law School |
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/mcglone-melanie | |||
Rosalind Setterfield | Awarded June 2019 | The regulation of 'revenge porn' in England and Wales : are existing legal solutions effective? | Lecturer, University of Colchester (2019) / Private Sector (present) |
Miriam Sheikh | Awarded May 2019 | The legal effectiveness of disarmament regimes | Policy Researcher Sastre Consulting Ltd. |
James Tutu | Awarded Sept 2018 | Corporate governance reforms post 2008 financial crisis : an exercise in futility? | |
Margaret Cooper | Awarded July 2018 | The principle of proportionality and precision weapons in the law of armed conflict. | Retired |
https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/99514694002346 | |||
Katrien Steenmans | Awarded Feb 2018 | Enabling industrial symbiosis through regulations, policies, and property rights. | Lecturer, School of Law, University of Coventry |
https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/99512498802346 | https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/katrien-steenmans | ||
Amy Elkington | Awarded Jan 2018 | A new duress defence and the theory of understandable compliance. | Lecturer, University of Chichester |
https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/99513498702346 | |||
Joshua Kerr | Awarded Jan 2018 | Deprivation of citizenship and the Immigration Act 2014 : the problems with making British citizens stateless. | Postdoc Legal Researcher |
https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/99513358902346 |