Our people
The members of The Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law.
Prof Carolyn Abbot
Professor of Environmental Law
Specialisms include: environmental regulation, environmental justice.Dr Eleanor Aspey
Senior Lecturer in Law
Dr Guy Baldwin
Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights
Specialisms include: liberty of conscience and religious freedom; constitutionalism and constitutional review; theoretical foundations of human rights.Prof Rodney Brazier (Emeritus)
Professor of Constitutional Law
Specialisms include: constitutional law, constitutional reformDr Fiona Brimblecombe
Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: privacy law, defamation, data protection and human rights.Dr Ricardo Buendia
Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: atypical work, platform work, collective labour rights, EU law, labour law, and freedom as non-domination
Mr Neil Cobb
Senior Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: Law, gender and sexuality, criminal law and criminology, land law and social justice.Dr Amber Darr
Lecturer in Competition Law
Specialisms include: competition law, South Asia, human rights, economic inequalities, sustainability, institutional design and transnational competition
Dr Elaine Dewhurst
Senior Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: Labour Law, European Union Law, Anti-Discrimination LawProf Tom Gibbons (Emeritus)
Professor of Law
Specialisms include: media law and regulation
Prof Javier Garcia Oliva
Professor of Law
Specialisms include: Law and Religion/Constitutional Law, Devolution of powers in the UK from a wider European perspective, Administrative Law: the position of tribunals in the United Kingdom.Dr Fae Garland
Senior Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: family and child law, intersex rights and law, gender, sex and sexuality, feminist legal studies and socio-legal methodology.Dr Luke Graham
Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights
Specialisms include: human rights in particular economic social and cultural rights, poverty and destitution and the right to clothing.
Dr Philip Handler
Senior Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: Criminal law and legal history.
Prof Neville Harris (Emeritus)
Professor of Law
Specialisms include: Social (Welfare) Law, especially: Education Law and Policy; Social Security Law and Policy; Human Rights and Rights of the Child; Administrative Justice; and Law and the Family.
Dr Aristea Koukiadaki
Professor of Labour Law and Industrial Relations
Specialisms include: Empirical study of law and applied legal and policy analysis, with particular reference to labour regulation, corporate governance and EU social policy.
Dr Ruth Lamont
Reader in Child and Family Law
Specialisms include: Family and child law.Mr Gary Lynch-Wood
Senior Lecturer in Corporate Governance
Specialisms include: corporate social responsibility and the law, regulatory compliance and culture, environmental regulation.Prof Claire McGourlay
Professor of Law
Specialisms include: criminal law, criminal justice and criminal evidence.Prof Geoff Pearson
Professor of Law
Specialisms include: criminal law, criminal evidence, human rights, sports law, policing.
Dr Graham Smith
Senior Lecturer in Law
Specialisms include: Human rights.Prof Robert Thomas
Professor of Public law
Specialisms include: Public/administrative law and immigration and asylum law.
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