Our people
Our academic staff are leading experts in their respective fields of research with an outstanding reputation for teaching innovation. Along with our in-house legal practitioners, learning development fellows and professional support staff, they provide our students with a first-class legal education in a collegial and supportive environment.
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Academic staff

Dr Stergios Aidinlis
Lecturer in Law;
Programme Director of the LLM/MSc in Law, Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies
- CBC 1.032
- s.aidinlis@keele.ac.uk

Dr Emma Allen
Lecturer in Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.005
- e.l.allen1@keele.ac.uk

Dr Awol Allo
Senior Lecturer
Expert in Ethiopia, Sudan, the Horn of Africa, human rights law, international law.
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.007
- +44(0)1782 733220
- a.k.allo@keele.ac.uk

Sarah Askey
Supervising Solicitor
- Chancellors Building - CBC0.003
- s.e.askey@keele.ac.uk

Professor Alison Brammer
Professor of Social Work Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.017
- +44(0)1782 733226
- a.k.brammer@keele.ac.uk

Dr John Cotter
Senior Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC0.018
- +44(0)1782 734519
- j.cotter@keele.ac.uk

Dr Stella Coyle
Senior Lecturer
- Chancellors Building, CBC1.028
- +44(0)1782 734512
- s.coyle@keele.ac.uk

Sonja Dale
Supervising Solicitor
- Chancellor's Building, CBC0.003
- s.dale1@keele.ac.uk

Dr Bleddyn Davies
Head of the School of Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.004
- b.r.davies@keele.ac.uk
Mark Davys
Senior Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.009
- +44(0)1782 733224
- m.a.davys@keele.ac.uk

Catherine Edwards
Senior Practitioner in Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.021
- +44(0)1782 734175
- c.edwards@keele.ac.uk
Dr Fabienne Emmerich
Senior Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.019
- +44(0)1782 733139
- f.emmerich@keele.ac.uk

Dr Elizabeth Faulkner
Lecturer
Director of CCLP
- Chancellor's Building, CBC
- e.a.faulkner@keele.ac.uk

Martha Gayoye
Lecturer In Law
- Chancellor's Building
- m.m.gayoye@keele.ac.uk

Professor Michael Haley
Professor of Property Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.006
- +44(0)1782 733223
- m.a.haley@keele.ac.uk

Dr Laura Higson-Bliss
Lecturer
Expert in Social media and the law, how criminal law is used to prosecute inappropriate behaviour online, social media abuse.
- Chancellor's Building, CBC 2.015
- l.a.higson-bliss@keele.ac.uk
Dr Jonathan Hughes
Senior Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.004
- +44(0)1782 734078
- j.a.hughes@keele.ac.uk

Dr Jane Krishnadas
Senior Lecturer
Expert in Legal aid, family law, justice system, protection for women in the law, supporting vulnerable communities.
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.026
- +44(0)1782 733160
- j.h.krishnadas@keele.ac.uk

Eve Lakin
Lecturer in Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC0.007
- e.e.lakin@keele.ac.uk

Boyd Morwood
Legal Advice Clinic Solicitor/Barrister
- Chancellors Building, CBC
- j.t.b.morwood@keele.ac.uk

Lisa Mountford
Teaching Fellow
- Chancellors Building, CBC1.029
- +44(0)1782 734363
- l.mountford@keele.ac.uk

Professor Yossi Nehushtan
Professor of Law and Philosophy
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.004B
- +44(0)1782 733862
- y.nehushtan@keele.ac.uk

Jordan A. Parsons
Lecturer in Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC 1.031
- j.parsons@keele.ac.uk

Dr Abigail Pearson
Lecturer
Expert in Disability law, accessibility law, human rights.
- Chancellor's Building, CBC0.006
- +44(0)1782 733222
- a.v.pearson@keele.ac.uk

Dr Mario Prost
Senior Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.027
- +44(0)1782 733097
- m.prost@keele.ac.uk

Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones
Programme Director, MA Safeguarding Adults: Law, Policy, and Practice
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.033
- +44(0)1782 733861
- l.g.pritchard-jones@keele.ac.uk

Dr Forough Ramezankhah
Lecturer
Expert in Refugee law, asylum seeker law, human rights, modern slavery.
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.009
- +44(0)1782 734515
- f.ramezankhah@keele.ac.uk

Dr Angelica Paiva Rutherford
Lecturer in Law, Programme Director LLM in International Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC 1.014
- a.rutherford1@keele.ac.uk

Kevin Sabbata
Lecturer in Law
- Chancellor’s Building, CBC2.025
- k.de.sabbata@keele.ac.uk

Dr Sotirios Santatzoglou
Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.006
- +44(0)1782 734216
- s.santatzoglou@keele.ac.uk

Dr Ezgi Taşcıoğlu
Lecturer
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.017
- +44(0)1782 733860
- e.e.tascioglu@keele.ac.uk

Professor Anthony Wrigley
Professor of Ethics
- Chancellor’s Building, CBC2.013
- +44(0)1782 733143
- a.wrigley@keele.ac.uk
Honorary positions

Professor Anthony Bradney
Emeritus Professor of Law
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.022
- +44(0)1782 733018
- a.bradney@keele.ac.uk
Professor Fiona Cownie
Professor of Law Emerita
- Chancellor's Building, CBC2.026
- +44(0)1782 734130
- f.cownie@keele.ac.uk
Research students

Yaqoub Buabbas
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor's Building
- y.s.buabbas@keele.ac.uk

Debbie Foss
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor's Building
- d.h.foss@keele.ac.uk

Jay Kirkham
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor’s Building, CBC0.001
- j.kirkham3@keele.ac.uk

Helena Kitto
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor's Building
- h.kitto@keele.ac.uk

Stephen Meachem
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor's Building
- s.j.meachem@keele.ac.uk

Marieanne Oludhe
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor's Building
- m.l.o.oludhe@keele.ac.uk

Kerry Ramsbotham
PhD Candidate
- Chancellor's Building
- k.ramsbotham@keele.ac.uk

Sophia Hayat Taha
PhD Candidate in Law and International Relations
- Chancellor's Building, CBA2.030
- s.h.taha@keele.ac.uk
Professional support staff

Rebecca Dennis-Benn
Legal Advice Clinic Co-ordinator
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.012
- +44 (0)1782 733229
- legal-advice-clinic@keele.ac.uk
School of Law
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