Human rights
We think human rights, international law and European law are among the most stimulating and topical research areas within our discipline.
Research specialisms
- We adopt critical theoretical, historical and comparative socio-legal approaches to our research which covers:
- migrant, refugee, and asylum law and racism
- the European Convention on Human Rights
- the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
- human rights in the former Soviet Union and Latin America
- imprisonment
- international criminal law
- parents' and children’s rights.
Members
- Monish Bhatia
- Bill Bowring (international law, minority rights)
- Eddie Bruce-Jones (European law, policing, asylum, anthropological perspectives)
- Fred Cowell (international criminal law)
- Costas Douzinas (human rights and politics)
- Nadine El-Enany (asylum law and refugee law)
- Michelle Everson (European Charter of Human Rights)
- Helen Fair
- Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (human rights in Latin America)
- Catherine Heard
- Jessica Jacobson
- Sarah Turnbull (immigration and detention)
- Sappho Xenakis (international human rights regime, compliance and enforcement, imprisonment)
Postgraduate Research Student members
recent externally funded research projects
- A human rights approach to prison management: handbook for prison staff (Helen Fair, Andrew Coyle)