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Dr Eliza Varney

Title: Lecturer
Phone: +44(0)1782 733544
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Location: Chancellor's Building, room CBC 2.005
Role: Level 1 Year Tutor
Member of the Learning & Teaching Committee
Member of the Client Interviewing Team
Contacting me: During office hours without an appointment, or email to make an appointment

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.

Eliza's research is in media regulation. Her PhD thesis focused on the regulation of the digital television infrastructure, in particular the control of bottleneck facilities, from the point of view of protecting citizenship values. Eliza's current research focuses on the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities in the regulation of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

 

Eliza would like to supervise postgraduate research on the rights of persons with disabilities.

Selected Publications

  • VARNEY E. 2009. "Reality Television" and Content Regulation: Perspectives and Challenges. Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, vol. 7(1). link>
  • Varney E. 2009. A Hierarchy of Disability Rights? A Comparative Examination of the Regulation of Digital Television in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 60(4), 421-442.
  • VARNEY E. 2008. Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom. Communications Law, vol. 13(6), 187-196.
  • VARNEY E. 2008. The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union. Utilities Law Review, vol. 17(1), 6-16.
  • Varney E and Varney M. 2007. Grounded? Air Passenger Rights in the European Union. In The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2008. Twigg-Flesner CPDHGNA (Ed.). Ashgate.

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Journal Articles

  • VARNEY E. 2009. "Reality Television" and Content Regulation: Perspectives and Challenges. Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, vol. 7(1). link>
  • Varney E. 2009. A Hierarchy of Disability Rights? A Comparative Examination of the Regulation of Digital Television in the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 60(4), 421-442.
  • VARNEY E. 2008. Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom. Communications Law, vol. 13(6), 187-196.
  • VARNEY E. 2008. The Protection of Age and Disability Rights in the Regulation of Digital Television in the European Union. Utilities Law Review, vol. 17(1), 6-16.
  • VARNEY E. 2007. Regulating the Digital Television Infrastructure in the EU. Room for Citizenship Interests?. The Icfai Journal of Cyber Law, vol. 6(3), 61-79.
  • Varney E. 2005. Winners and Losers in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television in the United Kingdom. Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, vol. 6(2), 645-685.

Chapters

  • Varney E and Varney M. 2007. Grounded? Air Passenger Rights in the European Union. In The Yearbook of Consumer Law 2008. Twigg-Flesner CPDHGNA (Ed.). Ashgate.
  • VARNEY EC. 2006. Social Regulation in the Air Transport Industry - An Examination of Regulation 1107/2006 concerning the Rights of Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility when travelling by Air. In Comparative Socio-Legal Research, special issue of Zeitschrift fur Rechtssoziologie. Karstedt S and Lange B (Eds.). Lucius & Lucius.

Undergraduate Teaching:

Contract Law 1 (Module Leader)
Contract Law 2
Law of the European Union 1
Law of the European Union 2 (Module Leader)

Eliza would like to supervise undergraduate dissertations in Contract Law (contract theory) and Law of the European Union (particularly on disability rights in the EU or aspects of EU competition law).

Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association

Member of the Society of Legal Scholars

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy