Dr Eliza Varney
- Title
- Senior Lecturer
- Location
- Chancellor's Building, CBC1.019
- Role
- Assessments Officer for the School of Law
- Contact me
- During office hours without an appointment, or email to make an appointment
- Phone
- +44(0)1782 733544
- e.varney@keele.ac.uk
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 would like to supervise postgraduate research on disability equality and contract law.
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching:
Contract Law 1 (Module Leader)
Contract Law 2 (Module Leader)
Commercial Law
Employment 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
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)
Selected Publications
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2017. Redefining contractual capacity? The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the incapacity defence in English contract law. LEGAL STUDIES, vol. 37(3), 493-519. link> doi> full text>
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‘Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Ensuring Full and Equal Access to Information’. In The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives. McGonagle T and Donders Y (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. link>
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2013. Disability and Information Technology: A Comparative Study in Media Regulation. Cambridge University Press.
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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.
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2008. Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom. Communications Law, vol. 13(6), 187-196.
Full Publications List show
Books
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2013. Disability and Information Technology: A Comparative Study in Media Regulation. Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
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2017. Redefining contractual capacity? The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the incapacity defence in English contract law. LEGAL STUDIES, vol. 37(3), 493-519. link> doi> full text>
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2009. 'Reality Television' and Content Regulation: Perspectives and Challenges. Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, vol. 7(1). link>
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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.
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2008. Disability Rights in the Communications Sector: An Examination of Digital Television Regulation in the United Kingdom. Communications Law, vol. 13(6), 187-196.
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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.
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2007. Regulating the Digital Television Infrastructure in the EU. Room for Citizenship Interests?. The Icfai Journal of Cyber Law, vol. 6(3), 61-79.
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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.
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Agency Contracts and the Scope of the Incapacity Defence in English Contract Law: A Topic too Hot to Handle?. Journal of Business Law. full text>
Chapters
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‘Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Ensuring Full and Equal Access to Information’. In The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information: Critical Perspectives. McGonagle T and Donders Y (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. link>
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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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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.
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Article 21 CRPD: Freedom of Expression and Opinion and Access to Information. In The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary. Bantekas I (Ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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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). In The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary. Oxford University Press.