Biography

Eliza completed her LLB at the University of Hull (1999), her LLM in Romania (2001) and her PhD at the University of Hull (2006). She also has a PgC in Research Training from the University of Hull (2004) and a PgC in Teaching and Learning in HE from Keele University (2007). Prior to joining Keele in 2004, Eliza worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Hull.

Research and scholarship

Eliza’s research is in disability equality, focusing on the compatibility of English Contract Law with the values pursued by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), in particular the protection of human dignity. Eliza has also conducted research on disability equality and access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the implementation of the CRPD. Her publications include the monograph Disability and Information Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2013), book chapters, including the contributions on Articles 21 and 49 CRPD in Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein, and Dimitris Anastasiou (eds.) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2018), and articles in Legal StudiesKing’s Law Journal, Journal of Business Law, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Communications Law, Utilities Law Review and Zeitschrift fur Rechtssoziologie.
Eliza would like to supervise postgraduate research on disability equality and contract law.

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching:

Obligations 1: Contract Law (Module Leader)

Commercial Law (Module Leader)

Business Law

Employment Law

Disability Law

Eliza would like to supervise undergraduate dissertations in Contract Law (including contract theory)

Further information

Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association

Member of the Society of Legal Scholars

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Publications

Article 21 CRPD: Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and Access to Information’ in Ilias Bantekas et. al. (eds.) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2018).

Article 49 CRPD: Accessible Format’ in Ilias Bantekas et. al. (eds.) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2018)

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