School of Law

Sharon joined Keele University as a Lecturer in September 2013. She was awarded a first class honours in Law from Queen’s University Belfast in 2009, receiving the Northern Ireland Law Society Prize upon graduation for best research project. Sharon was also awarded her PhD from Queen’s Belfast in May 2013. Her doctoral thesis is titled Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice: Issues of Power and Autonomy in Theory and Practice, and includes an empirical study of prenuptial agreements in New York, which was funded by the County Antrim Grand Jury Bursary.

Family Law (particularly adult relationships), Feminist Perspectives on Law, Property Law.

• Ancillary relief in Northern Ireland: the jurisprudence of the ‘noughties’ (2010) 61 (4) Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 431-47.

• Radmacher v Granatino [2010] UKSC 42 (2011) 33 (1) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 61-70.

• Review of International Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements (eds.) David Salter, Charlotte Butruille-Cardewand Stephen Grant’ (2011) 23(3) Child and Family Law Quarterly 423-427.

• Levelling the Prenuptial Playing Field: Is Independent Legal Advice the Answer? (2011) 4 International Family Law 327-331.

• Review of Marital Agreements and Private Autonomy in Comparative Perspective (ed.) Jens Scherpe (2012) 24 (4) Child and Family Law Quarterly 502-504

Undergraduate

Family Law (module leader)

Equity

Social Work

Postgraduate

MA Safeguarding Adults: Law Policy Practice

MA Child Care Law and Practice (module leader of Looked After Children)

MA Social Work

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