Members of the Centre for Law, Justice and Society
Professor Julia J.A. Shaw (CLJS Director) Professor of Law and Social Justice
T: +44 (0)116 257 7826
E: jshaw@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: interdisciplinary legal studies; law and public policy; local, national and international development and human rights; comparative law and culture; responsible technologies
Holly Swift (CLJS Research Seminar Convenor) 性吧电台 PhD Scholarship Award Holder
E: P2829172@my365.dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: international humanitarian law; cybersecurity; law and policy
Dr Conrad Nyamutata (
CLJS Head of Research Students) Senior Lecturer
T: + 44 (0)116 366 4355
E: conrad.nyamutata@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: international child law, children’s rights, child soldiering and law of armed conflict, international human rights law, international criminal law
John Agbaimoni, Lecturer
E: john.agbaimoni@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: information technology law; computer law; cyber security law; internet of things; industrial internet of things
Dr Simisola Akintoye, Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0) 116 257 7790
E: simi.akintoye@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: corporate governance, company law, corporate social responsibility, data protection, IT law
Professor Dennis Baker, Professor in Criminal Law
T: +44 (0)116 257 7348
E: dennis.baker@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: criminal law and justice, Asian law, Asian socio-legal studies
Megan Beckett, Lecturer
E: megan.phillips@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: criminal law; secondary liability in criminal law; homicide
Dr Pinar Donmez, Senior Lecturer in International Relations
T: + 44 (0)116 207 8195
E: pinar.donmez@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: critical international political economy, politics of (de)politicisation, crisis-management, repression and resistance, critical social theory and state theory
Jane Drapkin, Lecturer in Criminolgy
E: jane.drapkin@dmu.ac.uk
Area of expertise: genocide and atrocity prevention; peace building; human rights; social justice and sustainable development
Dr Tina Hart, Senior Lecturer
E: tina.hart@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: commercial use of biological material; patents; protection of traditional knowledge; law of tort
Stephen Holden, Lecturer
E: Stephen.holden@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: whistleblowing and unauthorised disclosures, environments of secrecy, national security governance, corporate governance, CSR, and human rights
Sophia Imegi, Lecturer
E: sophia.imegi@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: energy law, renewable energy law, investment law
Dr Rachael Ita, Senior Lecturer
T: +44(0)116 366 4563
E: Rachael.ita@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: international law, international human rights law, interpretation of treaties
Dr Alwyn P. Jones, Associate Professor
T: + (0)116 207 8045
E: apjones@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: immigration and refugee law, housing and homelessness law, constitutional and administrative law, ethics and professional responsibility for the legal profession
Karen Lawson, Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0)116 2506501
E: karen.lawson@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: employment law and rights, employment status, employment law enforcement
Professor Ronnie Mackay, Professor of Criminal Policy and Mental Health
T: + 44 (0)116 257 7189
E: rdm@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: mental condition defences, criminal responsibility
Dr Honor McAdam, Senior Lecturer
E: honor.mcadam@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: legal theory, business and human rights, human rights, environmental law, interdisciplinary legal studies
Fred Mear, Associate Professor
T: +44 (0)116 250 6814
E: fcmacc@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: Public Finance Law, Aid effectiveness, State Financial Governance/Public Financial Management (PFM), PFM reform
Dr Jonathan Merritt, Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0)116 255 1551
E: jmerritt@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: sports law, equine law, sports regulation and the non-human athlete, animal cloning and the law
Dr Lize Mills, Lecturer
E: lize.mills@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: family law, children's rights, transgender and intersex rights, food law and marketing
Martin Morgan-Taylor, Associate Professor
T: +44 (0)116 2577177
E: mart@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: light pollution, built environment law and policy, international environmental law
Dr Paul Omar, Senior Lecturer
T: +44 (0)116 250 6311
E: paul.omar@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: restructuring and insolvency; comparative law; property in context; international assistance and governance; legal training and capacity building
Mehul Parekh, Lecturer
E: mehul.parekh@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: consumer protection law, contract law, food law, commercial law
Neil Parpworth, Associate Professor
T: +44 (0)116 257 8186
E: njp@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: police powers, public order, pollution offences
Helen Rodway, Lecturer
E: helen.rodway@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: cohabitation rights, family law, discrimination and human rights
Farhana Shaikh, Lecturer
E: Farhana.shaikh2@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: diversity in publishing, cultural leadership and entrepreneurship, British South Asian literature, equality and social justice
Dr Elena Tudosie, Senior Lecturer
E: elena.tudosie@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: human rights, comparative law reform, assisted dying, prosecutorial discretion, constitutional law
Professor Dave Walsh, Professor in Criminal Investigation
T: +44 (0)116 207 8047
E: dave.walsh@dmu.ac.uk
Areas of expertise: criminal investigation - particularly the investigative interviewing of victims, witnesses and suspects, modern slavery, human trafficking
EU-FUNDED MARIE CURIE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Dr Jessica Parish
E: Jessica.parish@dmu.ac.uk
HONORARY APPOINTMENTS
Visiting Fellows
Professor Petra Butler, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
E: petra.butler@vuw.ac.nz
Professor Ekkehard Griep, Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen and University of Hamburg, Germany
E: ekkehardgriep@yahoo.com
Professor Linda Gröning, University of Bergen, Norway
E: Linda.Groning@uib.no
Professor Andrew Roberts, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia
E: arob@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Hillary Shaw, Centre for Urban Research on Austerity
E: Hilary.shaw@dmu.ac.uk
Doctoral students
Holly Swift
Samuel Bestman
Zein Abdul Nassir Mukhtar
Amina Abdullahi
John Agbaimoni
Yazan Al Maaiteh
Moataz Alyanbawi
Tanya Flanaghan (ADH / BAL)
Simon Britten
Tim Everett
Immanuel Tondoneh
Jessica Gallagher
Satarupa Ghosh
Martina Locorotondo (ADH /BAL)
Juliana Nnadi
Gerald Opiah
Sara Parr
Yana Sliusar
Emerald Woodward
Nkosana Mthimkhulu
Cynthia Ojukwu
Sarah Matthews
Oluwadara Olunaike-Talabi
Gavin Ridley
Abdulmumuni Dirisu