Law, ethics and technological innovation
Birmingham Law School research theme
Law, Ethics and Technological Innovation is a forum that aims to build an active community of researchers. This group focuses on the effects of technological innovation in today's society.
The law, ethics and technological innovation theme encourages cross-disciplinary exchange and welcomes scholars and researchers from across the university. This includes those from the School of Computer Science.
Its main goal is to build community. It provides researchers a place to make friends, build networks, and create a vibrant research atmosphere.
Staff researching in this theme
Staff researching in this theme
- Kate Bedford's research focuses on law and development, and gender and political economy. She also researches gambling law and regulation.
- Emma Breeze's research focuses on armed conflict, technology, intelligence and international crimes.
- Aleksandra Cavoski is a Professor of Law. She focuses on environmental law and EU law. Her research looks at how law connects with politics, science, public policy, and language.
- Peter Coe's research looks at how journalism is changing. It explores the effects on free speech, the public sphere, democracy, and press freedom and regulation.
- Caroline Collins is interested in Criminal Law.
- Hailemichael Teshome Demissie studies how to regulate new technologies with a focus on people.
- Angela Eggleton is an interdisciplinary researcher focussing on the regulation of emerging technologies.
- Natasha Gooden's research focuses on public international law and tech advancements. She looks closely at cyber operations, conflict, and human rights.
- Rosie Harding uses both empirical and conceptual socio-legal methods. She investigates how law fits into everyday life. Her focus is on social justice, family law, and disability law.
- Laura Holden studies environmental law, ethical science, new technology acceptance, and risk assessment.
- Anthea Hucklesby conducts research that combines theory and practice at every stage of the criminal justice process.
- Mohammad Shahabuddin is an international commercial lawyer. His research looks at how social norms and legal rules affect trade transactions moving from paper to digital formats. He aims to improve digital platform design and legal policies to make them more trustworthy and effective. He is also the author of a book on letters of credit, which serves as a reference for courts and practicing lawyers.
- Atina Krajewska is a health lawyer. She focuses on global health law and sexual and reproductive justice. She also works on the sociology of health law.
- Maureen Mapp researches relational law, gender and pluriversal justice in the physical and digital world.
- Jean McHale's research is in the area of health and care law.
- Muireann Quigley's research focuses on law, regulation, and policy relating to bodies, biomaterials, and biotechnologies.
- Frances Seabridge focuses on designing curricula for legal education. She is also interested in how to embed employability skills into this process.
- Linden Thomas' research focusses on clinical legal education, pro bono, public legal education and employability.
- Lisa Webley's research focuses on the regulation, education, ethics, and professionalism of the legal profession. It also looks at access to justice and rule of law issues.
- Karen Yeung has extensive expertise in the legal, ethical and democratic implications of the ongoing digital transformation, including AI governance.
- Chen Zhu studies intellectual property law, with a focus on music copyright. He also looks at computational legal research methods and legal teaching.