Find a research supervisor in private law

Staff in the Birmingham Law School who supervise PhD/MPhil/MJur by Research in the area of private law (including contract, tort, restitution and common law).

Dr Peter Coe

Dr Peter Coe

Associate Professor
Associate Dean of Birmingham Law School

Dr Peter Coe’s primary research interests are: (i) the changing nature of journalism, and how this impacts on free speech, press freedom and regulation, and the concepts of privacy and reputation; (ii) defamation, including the protection of corporate reputation; and (iii) media power and plurality, the role the media plays within society and its impact on democracy. His work in these areas ...

Professor Nelson Enonchong

Professor Nelson Enonchong

Barber Professor of Law
Deputy Dean of Birmingham Law School

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

Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Dr Mohd Hwaidi

Associate Professor
Director of LLM Programme (Dubai)

Dr Hwaidi is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Birmingham (Dubai). He was the Course Leader of LLM Competition Law and LLB Equity and Trusts Law at the University of Birmingham at Edgbaston Campus in the UK. He is currently the Director of the LLM Programme at Dubai Campus.  He is an Honorary Research Associate at University College London UCL- Centre of Blockchain and a Fellow ...

Dr Claire McIvor

Dr Claire McIvor

Honorary Associate Professor

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.

Professor Catherine Mitchell

Professor Catherine Mitchell

Chair in Contract Law

Professor Catherine Mitchell’s 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.

Dr Samantha Schnobel

Dr Samantha Schnobel

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (Specialised Programmes)

Samantha’s primary teaching and research interests lie in the fields of tort and professional ethics, specifically those areas which bear upon the construction of human and nonhuman health-related negligence claims.

In the past, Samantha has written on professional duties and standards of care, and has consulted on the creation of professional guidance and competency standards for various ...

John Tingle

John Tingle

Assistant Professor

His research focuses in health law field where he examines issues relating to clinical negligence litigation and patient safety. National and global patient safety policy development and UHC (Universal Health Coverage). He has a fortnightly column in the British Journal of Nursing. He is a frequent contributor to the Bill of Health published by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School where ...

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