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

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) DMU 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