Staff
Staff
The director of the Centre is Tom Lewis. Tom studied law and history at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1988, before qualifying and practising as a solicitor. He was appointed Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in 1996, becoming a Reader in Law in 2009. His research interests lie in the fields of human rights and constitutional law. He has a particular interest in the areas of freedom of expression and freedom of religion, and the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998.
Elspeth Berry is a reader in law with research and teaching interests in human rights law and the law relating to business partnerships. She has particular interests in EU human rights law, and application of human rights in the commercial sphere.
Jo Boylan-Kemp is a principal lecturer in law. Her research interests are in the field of criminal law, procedure, evidence and justice, both domestic and international. Her particular research interests focus on crimes against humanity; genocide; and the effectiveness of evidence given by child witnesses in criminal cases.
Dr Elizabeth Chadwick is a reader in war law. She supervises and teaches modules on International Terrorism, Aggression and War Crimes, International Public and Humanitarian Law, and Intellectual Property and European Competition Law.
Helen Edwards is a senior lecturer in law. She joined Nottingham Trent University in 2006, having spent 11 years practising at the Bar in Cardiff and teaching at Cardiff University. She is an associate member of KCH Garden Square (barristers’ chambers) in Nottingham. Helen’s academic interests include criminal law and evidence, the English legal system, mooting and advocacy.
Professor Ralph Henham has specific research interests in the areas of international and comparative criminal justice, especially international sentencing and penalty; international penal theory, comparative research methodology; and the relationship between penal law and the legitimacy of punishment. Ralph is the author of two recent books, Beyond Punishment: Achieving International Criminal Justice (with M Findlay, Palgrave Macmillan 2010) and Sentencing and the Legitimacy of Trial Justice (Routledge, 2011). Broader research interests include criminal justice, criminology, sentencing, legal theory, sociology of law, research methods and methodology.
Rebecca Huxley-Binns is Reader in Legal Education. In addition to her research on legal educational theory and practice, Rebecca is also interested in the law of evidence and criminal law (particularly homicide, including corporate killing).
Peter McTigue is a senior lecturer in law. His research interests are in the field of employment and equality law. He has particular interests in the areas of discrimination, especially disability discrimination; stigma; and legal responses to HIV.
Andrea Nicholson is a senior lecturer in law. Her research interests are in the field of human rights. She has particular interests in the areas of contemporary forms of slavery and slavery like practices; the implementation of international human rights norms and human rights history. Andrea is also Assistant Editor of the Nottingham Law Journal.
Dr Helen O'Nions is a senior lecturer in law. Helen's research interests include civil liberties and human rights, especially minority rights and the Roma; asylum and human rights. Helen is currently Editor of the Nottingham Law Journal.
Dr Samantha Pegg is a senior lecturer in law. Her research focuses on criminal law in historical perspective, with particular emphases on child on child killing; socio-legal constructions; media presentations and legal responses; Victorian and modern responses to juvenile crime; and Victorian constructs of insanity.
Jeremy Robson is a senior lecturer. He joined Nottingham Trent University as a lecturer on the BVC (now the BPTC). He is now the programme leader of the LLM in Advocacy Skills and teaches on a number of courses within the university. Jeremy is also a practising barrister and associate tenant of KCH Barristers in Nottingham. He was called to the Bar in 1999 and practised in criminal law. His academic interests include advocacy standards in the criminal courts, professional ethics, criminal law and evidence.
Professor Mary Seneviratne has research interests on ombudsmen, complaints procedures, administrative justice and the legal profession, and she has researched and published widely in this area.
Louise Taylor is a senior lecturer in law. Her main research interests include victimology; restorative justice; criminology; criminal law and procedure and criminal justice. Louise has undertaken empirical research examining the operation of the Victim Personal Statement scheme.
Dr Loretta Trickett is a senior lecturer in law. Loretta has a PhD on Masculinities and the Fear of Crime from the University of Birmingham. Her particular research interest is on masculinities, the fear of crime and victimisation. She is also interested in the related area of boys and bullying at school. She has published articles on men and altruistic fears and boys and bullying. More recently, her research has focused on the nature of hate crimes.
