Justice and home affairs
Justice and home affairs are a major focus for the University and for policy makers. These researchers are actively engaging with the policy process and would welcome further engagement from policy makers.

Specialist Teaching Fellow
George Applebey has been teaching law at the University of Birmingham since 1973. In his teaching at the present time, he is associated with Contract law, Sale of Goods law (particularly Consumer Sales) and Regulatory Criminal law particularly in the area of Health and Safety and also corporate criminal liability with particular reference to Corporate Manslaughter. Both Consumer Sales law and ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 4924
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- g.applebey@bham.ac.uk

Barber Professor of Jurisprudence
Anthony Arnull specialises in the law of the European Union. He worked at the European Court of Justice from 1989-92 and was Head of Birmingham Law School between 2006 and 2009. He was Acting Head of the College of Arts & Law at Birmingham from April to August 2015. Professor Arnull is the author of The General Principles of EEC Law and the Individual (Leicester University Press, 1990); The ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6295
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- a.m.arnull@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Economics
Siddhartha is an internationally recognised economist in the field of political economy and public policy. He was the recipient of the Duncan Black prize awarded by the Public Choice Society in 2015 for his work on the electoral incentives of prosecutors with Bryan McCannon. His work on political coalitions has been published in internationally leading journals and has been widely cited by ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6658
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- s.bandyopadhyay@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Law
Deputy Head of School (Research)
Kate is an interdisciplinary scholar, with a background in law and political economy, development, and gender/sexuality studies. She joined Birmingham Law School in 2018. She is currently the Head of Research
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- k.bedford@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Charlotte joined Birmingham Law School in 2017, after having held a position as a Lecturer at the University of Essex. She previously completed her doctoral research at Birmingham, and teaches and researches in the area of family law.
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- 0121 414 2658
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- c.l.bendall@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Over the past decade I have been researching the role of gender and religion in relation to Islamic extremism, and have an interest in gender-mainstreaming countering and preventing violent extremism efforts. My current work focuses on gender, religion and resilience in global governance efforts in relation to terrorism. This is part of my larger project, Humanities for Resilience,which is ...
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- k.e.brown@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Lloyd researches in the areas of property law and environmental law. Prior to his appointment as Lecturer in Law, Lloyd was a Teaching Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He has also held teaching positions at Cardiff University, of which he is an alumnus.
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- (0)121 414 7487
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- l.a.brown@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Law
Meghan Campbell is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Birmingham. Her research explores how the international human rights system can best respond to gender inequality and poverty. Her monograph Women, Poverty, Equality(Hart Publishing, 2018) explores how the concept of equality in the UN Convention on the Discrimination on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can be ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6315
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- m.campbell.1@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Environmental Law
College Director of Global Engagement
Professor Aleksandra Cavoski’s teaching and research interests are in the areas of Environmental and EU law. She has particular interest in EU accession countries.
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- a.cavoski@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Gender, Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law
Professor Janine Natalya Clark joined Birmingham Law School in October 2014. She was promoted to Reader in 2016 and promoted to Professor in 2018. Her research interests include conflict-related sexual violence, transitional justice, international criminal courts, resilience, ethnic conflict and reconciliation. She is currently leading a five-year European Research Council project entitled A ...
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- 0121 414 6316
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- j.n.clark@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Jurisprudence
Professor Coyle writes and teaches on aspects of legal and political philosophy. In 2004 his work won one of the SLS Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. His next book, From Positivism to Idealism, was shortlisted for the 2008 Inner Temple Book Prize. His third book, Dimensions of Politics and English Jurisprudence, was the subject of a conference at the University of Notre Dame, USA in ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6321
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- s.coyle@bham.ac.uk

Chair of Global Legal Studies
Professor de Londras’ research concerns constitutionalism, human rights and transnationalism. She is particularly interested in the role and function of rights in contentious policy fields, enquiring about whether—and if so how—rights shape the making of law and policy in complex contexts of, for example, counter-terrorism, the European Court of Human Rights, and abortion law in ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6318
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- f.delondras@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Law and Ethics
'Sylvie Delacroix focuses on the intersection between law and ethics, with a particular interest in Data and Machine Ethics, Agency and the role of habit within moral decisions (Habitual Ethics?, Bloomsbury / Hart Publishing, 2021). Her current research focuses on the design of computer systems meant for morally-loaded contexts. She is also considering the potential inherent ...
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- s.delacroix@bham.ac.uk

Barber Professor of Law
Professor Enonchong is the author of three major practitioner works in the field of banking and commercial law. He has advised in a number of complex international commercial disputes and has acted as an arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations
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- +44 (0)121 414 6283
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- n.e.enonchong@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Javier completed his LLB and LLM degrees at the University of Bristol. He joined Birmingham Law School in 2013. His research focuses on international criminal law, international legal theory and transitional justice with a special focus on Latin America.
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- (0)121 414 6308
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- j.s.eskauriatza@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Samantha joined Birmingham Law School as a lecturer in September 2017. Prior to this, she was here as an ESRC funded PhD student. During this time, she contributed to teaching on various LLB degrees at the Law School and held a position as a Teaching Fellow from 2016-17.
Her current research centres on the treatment of the vulnerable in Crown Court trials, specifically at the point at which they ...
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- 0121 414 2234
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- s.fairclough@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Anton has joined Birmingham Law School as Lecturer in 2019. Besides teaching, Anton has practiced UK law as well as Austrian law as a dual qualified lawyer, focussing on Corporate/Commercial Law, International Trade Law and BREXIT. At Birmingham Law School Anton lectures on International Commercial Law and acts as a module lead of several International Commercial Law LL.M. modules offered by the ...
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- a.fischer@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Dr Gulara Guliyeva has been developing a record of strong research in European Law, published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6322
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- g.guliyeva@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Law and Society
Professor Rosie Harding's research explores the place of law in everyday life. Her primary interests are in social justice, disability and family law. Her work has a particular focus on the regulation and recognition of caring and intimate relationships. She uses social science methods including both qualitative and quantitative approaches to empirical research to investigate the place of law in ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 4960
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- r.j.harding@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer
Assessment and Progress Lead
Dr Adrian Hunt teaches and researches in the fields of public law, human rights, crime, and aspects of international law. He has a particular interest in legal responses to terrorism and has worked as a consultant for the Council of Europe and the OSCE on aspects of counter-terrorism law. His published work in that field has been cited by UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6326
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- a.hunt@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Sikh Studies
I’ve been a lecturer at the University of Birmingham since 2002. My research encompasses a range of related topics in Sikh Studies, such as gender and Sikhism, science and Sikhism and contemporary Sikhism.
On the teaching side, I teach Introduction to Sikhism (second-year undergraduate); Placement Module (second–year undergraduate); and an MPhil(B) course on Sikh Studies, MA in ...
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- +44 (0)121 41 58338
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- j.jhuttijohal.1@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
I’m a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and also Head of Education for the School of Philosophy, Theology & Religion. My main interests are in meta-ethics, applied ethics and ethical theory, and I’m currently working on papers in moral theory, moral psychology, the philosophy of medicine and applied ethics.
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- +44 (0) 121 414 8336
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- i.law@bham.ac.uk

Professor
CEPLER Director
Professor Robert Lee is the Director of the Centre for Legal Education and Research at the University of Birmingham. He has acted as specialist adviser to the European Parliament, the European Commission, the House of Commons and the National Assembly for Wales and has worked for the Department for the Environment in Northern Ireland (drafting environmental legislation), the ...
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- 0121 414 5864
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- r.g.lee@bham.ac.uk
Professor in Modern History
Head of School of History and Cultures
Having graduated from the University of Düsseldorf with a degree in mathematics, history and philosophy I completed an M.Phil in International Relations and PhD in Modern History at the University of Cambridge. I took up a lectureship in European history at the University of Hull in 1993 before joining the Department of Modern History here at Birmingham in 1994.
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- +44(0)121 414 5749
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- s.lee@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Dr Maureen Mapp is a lawyer whose research and teaching interests are in public law and private law particularly how to bridge the normative gap between law and non-state ethno cultural norms. In this regard, Maureen has provided technical expertise to the Commonwealth Secretariat on adoption of cryptocurrencies and their impact on agricultural based economies. In collaboration with UNAFRI, ...
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- +4 (0)121 414 2886
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- m.o.mapp@bham.ac.uk

Reader in Law
Deputy Director of Research
Dr Mavronicola researches and teaches on human rights, public law, and legal theory, as well as on the interplay between counter-terrorism and human rights and on key intersections between human rights and criminal justice. She has published on these topics in a number of journals, including the Human Rights Law Review and the Modern Law Review, and edited collections.
Between ...
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- (0)121 414 9038
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- n.mavronicola@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Law and Language
Birmingham Fellow
Professor McAuliffe’s principal area of research focuses on the relationship between law, language and translation in the EU legal order. By clarifying the ways in which language plays a key role in determining judicial outcomes at the EU level, she challenges EU scholarship to look beyond more conventional approaches to the development of a rule of law that draw on law alone. ...
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- 0121 414 7269
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- k.mcauliffe@bham.ac.uk
Professor of Health Care Law
Professor Jean McHale researches and writes in the area of Health Law and Health Care law. She is the Director of the Centre for Health Law, Science and Policy at Birmingham Law School. Her recent books include European Health Law: Themes and Implicationswith Hervey (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Routledge Handbook on Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Perspectives from Social ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6294
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- j.v.mchale@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer
Dr Claire McIvor is a tort lawyer whose main research interests are: (i) liability for the acts of others (both vicarious and non-vicarious); (ii) public authority liability in negligence (particularly police liability), and more recently, (iii) legal applications of Epidemiology.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6324
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- c.mcivor@bham.ac.uk

Reader in Private Law
Catherine is a Reader in Private Law at Birmingham Law School. Her research and teaching centres mainly around Contract law and related subjects. She has published widely on different aspects of contract law and her work has been cited by the House of Lords, the Singapore Court of Appeal and by the Law Commissions of England and Scotland.
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- 0121 414 6299
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- c.e.mitchell@bham.ac.uk

Professor in Carceral Geography
Dominique Moran’s research and teaching is in the sub-discipline of carceral geography, a geographical perspective on incarceration. Supported by the ESRC, her research has informed and extended theoretical developments in geography, criminology and prison sociology, whilst interfacing with contemporary debates over hyperincarceration, recidivism and the advance of the punitive state. ...
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- +44 (0)121 41 48013
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- d.moran@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer in Law
Dr Morgan researches and teaches public law, legal theory, socio-legal theory, and human rights. She explores the interplay between law and political theory on topics such as national security, counter-terrorism, accountability, and conceptions of freedom. Her most recent publication, with Professor Fiona de Londras and Dr Jessie Blackbourn, Accountability and Review in the Counter-Terrorist ...
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- l.morgan@bham.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor of Contemporary European Islam
My main research interest is Islam in Europe but I also maintain interests in Shari’a and Christian-Muslim relations in Europe and the Middle East.
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- j.s.nielsen@bham.ac.uk
Research Fellow in Gender and Transitional Justice
Dr Yoana F. Nieto Valdivieso joined Birmingham Law School in September 2017. Her research interests are in Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of combatants from a Gender Perspective, Transitional Justice, Sexual Violence in war and armed conflict, and Feminist Theories of War and Armed Conflict. Yoana is currently working with Dr Janine N. Clark on a five-year project funded by the ...
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- y.f.fernandavaldivieso@bham.ac.uk

Reader
Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili has taught and researched public international law at four British universities over the past 18 years. His teaching also includes elements of criminal law and jurisprudence. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars on developments in public international law, and has given invited papers at the events and conferences held in UK, USA, France, ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6284
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- a.orakhelashvili@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Rehana Parveen is a former solicitor and former senior tutor at The University of Law, having taught on the GDL, LPC and BPTC courses. Rehana is currently a Teaching Fellow and Phd student of the University of Birmingham. Her research project is in the area of Islamic/Shariah law and its place in English law, particularly with regards to matrimonial and family disputes which are ...
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- 0121 414 2099
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- r.parveen@bham.ac.uk

Teaching Fellow
Ian Phillips is best known for writing the most comprehensive account of the 1973 Isle of Man Summerland fire disaster, which can be obtained by going to summerlandfiredisaster.co.uk. He gained his BSc Geography degree from the University of Birmingham in 1995, before continuing at the University to complete an MSc in Meteorology and Climatology and a PhD in Geography. Ian has been ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 5552
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- i.d.phillips@bham.ac.uk

Professor of International Law & Human Rights
Deputy Head of School (Staffing and Strategy)
Shahab teaches and researches in international law and human rights with special focus on the history and theory of international law, ethnicity and nationalism, and human rights. His teaching and research is informed by critical, postcolonial, and TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) scholarship. He is the author of Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and ...
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- 0121 414 9197
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- m.shahabuddin@bham.ac.uk

Professor of Company Law in Context
Deputy Director of Research (environment)
Professor Talbot writes and teaches on company law and corporate governance from a law in context approach, with particular emphasis on the political economy of the company. She has written several books on company law and corporate governance as well as many scholarly articles. Her current project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, ‘Making the Company Fit for Social Purpose’, deals ...
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- 0121 414 3631
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- l.e.talbot@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer
Solicitor and CEPLER Manager
Linden is a Senior Lecturer and supervising solicitor for Birmingham Law School’s Pro Bono Group. She also manages the School’s Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research. She has a particular interest is pro bono, clinical legal education and public legal education and publishes in those areas.
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- +44 (0)121 414 5780
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- l.thomas@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Law
Director of Postgraduate Research
Dr Bosko Tripkovic researches and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, constitutional law, and EU law. His book The Metaethics of Constitutional Adjudication (Oxford University Press 2017) develops an original theory of the role of values in constitutional reasoning, and combines insights from comparative constitutional law and metaethics. Dr Tripkovic has won the ...
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- 0121 414 7501
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- b.tripkovic@bham.ac.uk

Professor of European Law and Policy
Director, Institute of European Law
The research of Martin Trybus aims to make a contribution to the understanding and development of the Law of the European Union, especially its economic and constitutional aspects, to establish ‘European Union Defence and Security Law’ as a separate legal subject, and to contribute to the understanding and development of European Union Public Procurement Law.
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- +44 (0)121 414 6330
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- m.trybus@bham.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in Law
Deputy Head of School (Education)
Dr Ben Warwick’s research explores how economic factors affect human rights (and especially socio-economic rights). He is interested in the ways that laws and the institutions that enforce them change under such pressures. This has led him to write on the related questions of crisis, neoliberalism, and the reversal of rights protections. He is a specialist in international human rights, the ...
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- 0121 414 6288
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- b.t.warwick@bham.ac.uk

Chair in Legal Education and Research
Head of Birmingham Law School
Professor Lisa Webley’s research concerns the regulation, education and ethicality and professionalism of the legal profession, and broader access to justice and rule of law concerns. She has been the Principal Investigator on several large research projects and has undertaken funded empirical research for public bodies and organisations including the European Commission; the Ministry ...
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- +44 (0)121 414 6866
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- l.c.webley@bham.ac.uk

Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics
Karen Yeung joined Birmingham Law School and the University of Birmingham’s School of Computer Science as Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics in January 2018.
Karen is actively involved in several technology policy and related initiatives in the UK and worldwide, including those concerned with the governance of AI, one of her key research ...
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- +44 (0) 121 414 6298
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- k.yeung@bham.ac.uk

Lecturer
Dr Chen Zhu is committed to teaching and researching intellectual property (especially copyright). His publications have appeared in leading peer-reviewed academic journals such as Social & Legal Studies and International Journal of Information Technology and Law.
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- 0121 414 8564
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- c.w.zhu@bham.ac.uk