Our academic staff

Dr Godswill Agbaitoro

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Energy and Climate Justice: Global South Perspectives; International Environmental Law and Sustainability; Just Energy Transition; Oil and Gas Law; Natural Resource Governance; Energy Justice: Global South Perspective; Energy Transitions and Law in Africa; Environmental Justice and Law in Africa and the Global South

Dr Mohammed Khair Alshaleel

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Financial Law; Financial Regulation; Commercial Law; Islamic Financial Law; Banking Law

Dr Alexandros Antoniou

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law and Asset Management; Cyber-obscenity; Media Ethics and Media Regulation

Penelope Brearey-Horne

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Medical Law; Healthcare Law and Human Rights; The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and the NHS; Maternity services

Dr Karen Brennan

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice; Gender and Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice History

Judith Bueno De Mesquita

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Health and human rights; Economic, social and cultural rights; Climate change; International development and human rights; Poverty and human rights

Dr Belma Bulut Sahin

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Carriage of Goods by Sea, Shipping Technology Law, Autonomous Ships, Maritime Cyber Security, IMO Regulations, EU Maritime Law, Marine Pollution, Marine Insurance

Dr Darren Calley

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Animal Welfare Law; Environmental Law; Public International Law

Dr Koldo Casla

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Critique of Human Rights; Spanish Politics; UK Politics; International Relations and Human Rights; Activism, social movements and human rights

Dr Antonio Coco

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public International Law; International Criminal Law; International Law applicable to Information and Communication Technologies, and in Cyberspace; International Humanitarian Law

Professor Joel Colón-Ríos

Professor, Essex Law School

Dr Julia Constantino Chagas Lessa

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Richard Cornes

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Constitutional & Administrative Law; Comparative Public Law; Psychoanalysis and Law; Human Rights, esp Freedom of Expression, Hate Speech and Religion; LGTB+ rights, in particular legal recognition of same-sex relationships and marriage equality; Comparative Judicial Branch Studies; Media, Communications and Top Courts; Law and Politics; European Law, esp judicial branch issues

Dr Tom Cornford

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

Dr Durand Cupido

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Samantha Davey

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Aoife Duffy

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Interdisciplinary Human Rights Scholarship

Dr Etienne Durand

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Energy Law; EU Internal Market Law; Climate change; State Aid Law; Energy transition; French Public Law

Dr Sophie Duroy

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Intelligence and Security; Public International Law; Human Rights; Social Science Approaches to International Law

Dr Eugénie Duval

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Animal Law; Constitutional Law; Environmental Law

Dr Andrew Fagan

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Andrea Fejos

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Consumer law; Financial consumer law

Professor Carla Ferstman

Director of the Human Rights Centre - Professor (R), Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre

Research interests: Public International Law; Human Rights Law; International Criminal Law

Elizabeth Fisher-Frank

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Tom Flynn

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: UK, European and international constitutional law, theory and history; Constitutional pluralism; European and international human rights law; Administrative law

Professor Lorna Fox O'Mahony

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Financial transactions and older people; Socio-legal analyses of property law; Legal concept of home; Squatters and adverse possession; Trusts of the family home; Law and the emotions; Creditor possession actions; Property theory

Dr Claiton Fyock

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Sabina Garahan

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Human Rights Law; European Human Rights Law; Prisoner Rights; International Humanitarian Law; Criminal Justice

Dr Giulia Gentile

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Professor Geoff Gilbert

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Refugee Law; Extradition Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; International Human Rights Law; International Minority Rights Law; Acute Crises and Displacement

Dr Matthew Gillett

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Environmental Law; International Criminal Law; Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism; Space Law; International Human Rights Law; Public International Law

Dr Nikhil Gokani

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public Health Law; Consumer Protection; Food, Nutrition and Alcohol Labelling; Non-Communicable Diseases Prevention; Health Inequalities; Human Rights; Food, Tobacco, Alcohol, Physical Activity, Air Pollution

Professor Audrey Guinchard

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Criminal Law; Data protection; French Law/Comparative Law; Cybercrime and cybersecurity

Julie Hannah

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Lee Hansen

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Human Rights in Consumer Law and Practice; LGBT+ Rights; Social Welfare Law; Pedagogy of Clinical Legal Education; Unfair Contract Terms

Dr Anna Hardiman-McCartney

Faculty Dean Undergraduate (Humanities) - Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Administrative Law; Constitutional Law; Judicial Review; UK Human Rights Law

Joanna Harwood

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Private family law; Legal responses to domestic abuse

Professor Karen Hulme

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Laws of armed conflict; Environmental law; Human rights and the environment

Bev Jackson

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Rees Johnson

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Marija Jovanovic

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Konstantinos Kalliris

Faculty Director of Partnerships - Senior Lecturer (R), Essex Law School

Professor Stavroula Karapapa

Dean of Partnerships (Research) - Professor (R), Essex Law School

Research interests: Copyright Law and Policy; Law and the Arts; Legal Challenges of AI, Big Data and Blockchain Technology; Personality Rights, Data Protection, and Information Privacy; Internet Law, and Digital Regulation; Trade Mark and Unfair Competition Law; Trustworthy AI: Law and Ethics

Dr Anastasia Karatzia

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Citizens' Participation in law-making; European Citizens' Initiative; The role of the CJEU in EU participatory democracy; EU Banking Union; EU Single Supervisory Mechanism; Accountability of institutional actors involved in financial assistance mechanisms; The role of the European Central Bank in the SSM

Dr Soyeon Kim

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Law of the Sea; International Law of the Marine Environment; International Environmental Law; Climate change; Third World Approaches to International Law

Professor Theodore Konstadinides

Professor, Essex Law School

Dr Marios Koutsias

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Company Law; Corporate Governance; Comparative Company Law; European Union Law with a special emphasis on the Internal Market; Privacy and Data Protection

Dr Esin Küçük

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: EU Constitutional Law; EU Asylum and Immigration Law; Refugee protection regime in Türkiye; Constitutional aspects of economic governance of the EU; Temporary Protection Practices; Use of AI in migration management; Solidarity and responsibility sharing in the EU; Constitutional principles and values; EU Constitutional Review; Comparative Constitutional Law

Dr Elif Kuskonmaz

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Human Rights Law; Privacy and Data Protection; Digitisation of Border Controls and Migration Management

Dr Dimitrios Kyritsis

Reader, Essex Law School

Dr Jessica Lawrence

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Public International Trade Law; Governmentality; International Investment Law; EU Internal Market Law; Critical Theory; International Economic Law; Business and Human Rights; Trade and Environment; Investment and Environment; Investment and Human Rights; Trade and Human Rights; Critical Approaches to International Law; EU Trade and Investment Policy

Professor Andrew Le Sueur

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: The constitutional role of the judiciary; Administrative law and justice; Tiny legal systems (serving populations of fewer than 100,000); Human Rights in the British Crown Dependencies; Nineteenth Century English constitutional and justice system; Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative

Dr Ebba Lekvall

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Transitional Justice; Reparation; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law; Indigenous rights

Dr Emmanuelle Lemaire

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Comparative Law, Tort Law, French Law, English Law

Dr Olayinka Lewis

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Immigration and nationality law; Energy law; Legal pluralism

Dr Zainab Lokhandwala

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Marina Lostal

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Professor Noam Lubell

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Humanitarian Law / Law of Armed Conflict; Conduct of Hostilities; Military Occupation; New Military and Law Enforcement Technologies, including Cyber Operations, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Human Enhancement; The Use of Force by States; Self-Defence; the UN Collective Security Framework; Counter-Terrorism.

Professor Yseult Marique

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Regulation and administrative law, especially public-private relationships; Public contracts (procurement, enforcement, corruption); European administrative law; Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative; Comparative Law in Europe

Professor Lorna McGregor

Professor, Essex Law School - Human Rights Centre

Professor Sabine Michalowski

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Medical Law; Business and human rights; Transitional Justice, with a particular focus on the Colombian peace process, socio-economic dimensions of TJ and the inclusion of economic actors in TJ processes; Health Care Law and Human Rights

Dr Edward Mitchell

Faculty Progress and Assessment Officer (Arts and Humanities) - Lecturer (R), Essex Law School

Research interests: Law and time; Compulsory purchase; Property development; Planning law

Colin Moore

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility

Professor Donald Nicolson

Professor (R) and Law Clinic Director, Essex Law School

Dr Charilaos Nikolaidis

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Human Rights law; Equality law; Judicial Reasoning; Law and Politics; European Union law; Law and Literature

Dr Uchechukwu Nwoke

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Niall O'Connor

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Employment Law; Fundamental Rights; European Union Law; Brexit Law

Professor David O'Mahony

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Restorative justice.; Criminal justice.; Transitional justice.; Youth crime and justice.; Youth Crime and Justice; Criminology

Dr Philemon Omede

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Professor Onyeka Osuji

Dean of Essex Law School - Professor (R), Essex Law School

Research interests: Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility; Consumer Protection; Development; Corporate Regulation

Dr Patricia Palacios Zuloaga

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Human Rights Law; Inter-American Human Rights Law; Women's Rights; Transitional Justice; International Adjudication in Human Rights; Discrimination; International Criminal Law; Sexual and Reproductive Rights; LGBTIQ+ Rights

Dr Carlo Petrucci

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Research interests

Dr Erin Pobjie

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: the use of force by States (jus ad bellum); outer space security; victims of aggression; international human rights law; international peace and security law; UN collective security; new and emerging technologies and use of force

Justin Poonjatt

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Francis Rees

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Child Influencer Labour

Dr Oriola Sallavaci

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Laure Sauve

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Comparative Law

Professor Ahmed Shaheed

Professor, Essex Law School

Dr Elena Sherstoboeva

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Freedom of expression; Media Law; Counteracting misinformation; Copyright law; Protection of privacy

Professor Matthew Stone

Professor, Essex Law School

Dr Fikayo Taiwo

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Resolution of commercial disputes; Access to Justice; Alternative Dispute Resolution; International Commercial Arbitration

Dr Nathanael Tilahun

Senior Lecturer in International Law, Essex Law School

Dr Comfort Tioluwani

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Tuba Turan

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Dr Stephen Turner

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Global Environmental Governance; Human Rights and the Environment; International Environmental Law; Corporate Responsibility; International Trade / Investment and the Environment; Climate Change Law; Banking / Finance / Insurance and the Environment; Constitutional Environmental Rights

Dr Nikos Vogiatzis

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Professor Christopher Willett

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: UK, EU and global consumer and contract law; commercial law; services of general interest; unfair terms and practices law; quality and safety of goods and services; financial services; digital content law

Dr Meagan Wong

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: International Criminal Law; The Law on the Use of Force; International Law of the Sea; International Environmental Law; Law of Treaties; State responsibility; International dispute settlement; International Institutional Law; Public International Law; International watercourses law

Professor Lorna Woods

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Media regulation; Internet Law; Surveillance

Professor Ting Xu

Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Property Law; Law and Development; Law and Social Theory; Political Economy

Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis

Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Business and human rights; International Investment Law; Settlement of international disputes; Corporate law; International investment and human rights; International investment law, environmental protection and climate change

Dr Jie Zeng

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Zhenbin Zuo

Lecturer, Essex Law School

Nihad Aboud

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School

Dr Katya Al Khateeb

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School

Research interests: Human Rights Law; International Humanitarian Law (IHL); Law & Culture (including art & literature)

Zeynep Baysar

Research Officer, Essex Law School

Franziska Fluhr

Research Officer, Essex Law School

Sian Posy

Research Officer, Essex Law School

Alessia Stroni

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School

Vanessa Topp

Research Officer, Essex Law School

Laura Torres Acosta

Research Officer, Essex Law School

Dr Alice Trotter

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School

Dr Samantha Woodward

Senior Research Officer, Essex Law School

Professor Steven Anderman

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Commercial Law; European Competition Law; European Community Law; Labour Law

Professor Brigid Hadfield

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Professor Carolyn Hamilton

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Prof Paul Hunt

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: International human rights law; Economic, social and cultural rights; The right to the highest attainable standard of health; Poverty, development and human rights

Prof Sheldon Leader

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Corporations; Labour/Employment Law; Links between Human Rights, International Trade, and Investment; Philosophy of Human Rights; Jurisprudence

Professor Elizabeth Palmer

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Socio-economic Rights; Judicial Review; Adminstrative Law; Constitutional Law; Access to Justice

Prof Maurice Sunkin

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: ERSC Peer Review College; Director of the UK Administrative Justice Institute; Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative

Professor Lorna Woods

Professor, Essex Law School

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School

Research interests: Media regulation; Internet Law; Surveillance

Prof Jane Wright

Emeritus Professor, Essex Law School