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
Associate Professor in Law
Dr Stephen Bero
Senior Lecturer
Dr Conor Casey
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Public Law & Legal Theory
Nick Clapham
Senior Lecturer/Director of Student Experience
Professor Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov
Head of School
Professor Kenneth Ehrenberg
Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Dr Emily Finch
Senior Lecturer in Law
Dr 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)
Dr Feja Lesniewska
Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Transitions and Environmental Law
Sebastian Lewis
Surrey Senior Fellow
Claire Lillywhite
Senior Lecturer Professional Development and Employability
Dr Ira Lindsay
Associate Professor
Professor Rosalind Malcolm
Professor of Law, Director of Environmental Regulatory Research Group (ERRG)
Dr Lucas Miotto Lopes
Senior Lecturer in Law and Philosophy
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
Senior Lecturer in Law (Tort; Medical Law & Ethics); Director of Employability (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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Prof Giovanni Sartor | Visiting Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence | |
| Akber Datoo | Visiting Professor in Practice (CEO, D2 Legal Technology) |
Former visitors
| Name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||