Constitutional Affairs

Constitutional 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. 

Professor Anthony Arnull

Professor Anthony Arnull

Emeritus Professor of European Law

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 ...

Email
a.m.arnull@bham.ac.uk

Professor Katherine Brown

Professor Katherine Brown

Professor of Religion, Gender and Global Security

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 ...

Email
k.e.brown@bham.ac.uk

Dr Meghan Campbell

Dr Meghan Campbell

Reader in International Human Rights Law

Meghan Campbell is Reader in International Human Rights 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 ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6315
Email
m.campbell.1@bham.ac.uk

Professor Janine Natalya Clark

Professor of Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law

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 transitional justice, armed conflict, resilience, social-ecological systems, posthumanism, new materialism and disability.

Janine has four research monographs and one co-edited book. Her most recent book – Resilience, ...

Telephone
0121 414 6316
Email
j.n.clark@bham.ac.uk

Professor Nicholas Crowson

Professor Nicholas Crowson

Professor of Contemporary British History

Professor Nicholas Crowson is a Professor of Contemporary British History with a particular interest in homelessness from the 1880s to the modern day. This includes recreating the life stories of vagrants in late Victorian times; exploring the hidden history of the mass squatting of military camps in 1946; examining the role of the Reception Centres after 1946; and considering the impact of ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 5485
Email
n.j.crowson@bham.ac.uk

Dr Tom Cutterham

Dr Tom Cutterham

Senior Lecturer in United States History

Tom Cutterham is a historian of Revolutionary America and the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world. He teaches the history of North America from the first English colonisations to the end of the nineteenth century, including courses on women in the American Revolution and the meaning of freedom in American history. Following his first book, Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power and Justice in the ...

Telephone
0121 414 5747
Email
t.cutterham@bham.ac.uk

Professor Fiona de Londras

Professor Fiona de Londras

Director of Research, College of Arts and Law
Barber Professor of Jurisprudence

Fiona de Londas is Director of Research for the College of Arts and Law and Professor of Global Legal Studies at Birmingham Law School. Her research concerns constitutionalism, human rights, and transnationalism. She is particularly interested in the role and function of rights in contentious policy fields, inquiring into how (if at all) rights shape the making of law and policy in complex ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6318
Email
f.delondras@bham.ac.uk

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Dr Charlotte Galpin

Associate Professor in German and European Politics

Charlotte Galpin is Associate Professor in German and European Politics. Her research lies at the intersection of political science, sociology and media and communication studies, with a particular interest in the European public sphere, European and national identities, and democracy and citizenship. More recently, she is analysing masculinities and gendered patterns of inclusion/exclusion in ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6928
Email
c.a.galpin@bham.ac.uk

Professor Tim Haughton

Professor Tim Haughton

Professor of Comparative and European Politics
Deputy Director of the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR)

Tim Haughton is a political scientist with a particular interest in electoral and party politics, electoral campaigning, and the politics of Central and Eastern Europe, especially Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. He is the co-author of The New Party Challenge, published by Oxford University Press and was the joint editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies’ ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 6360
Email
t.j.haughton@bham.ac.uk

Dr Huw Macartney

Dr Huw Macartney

Associate Professor in Political Economy

Huw Macartney is a political economist whose work is broadly concerned with the politics of banking and financial services.

Email
h.macartney@bham.ac.uk

Professor Natasa Mavronicola

Professor Natasa Mavronicola

Professor of Human Rights Law

Professor Mavronicola joined Birmingham Law School as a Senior Lecturer in September 2016, and has been Professor of Human Rights Law since 2022. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at Queen’s University Belfast (2013-2016). Professor Mavronicola is chiefly interested in the theory and interpretation of human rights. Her research has focused on pursuing dynamic coherence in the ...

Telephone
(0)121 414 9038
Email
n.mavronicola@bham.ac.uk

Dr Lydia Morgan

Dr Lydia Morgan

Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Education (PGT)

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 ...

Email
l.morgan@bham.ac.uk

Professor Klaus Richter

Professor Klaus Richter

Professor of Central and Eastern European History

As a historian of modern Central and Eastern Europe, I am interested in the role that the 'small' states between Russia and Germany have played in history. A fundamental question I concern myself with is what people expect from the state and how this changes in periods of crisis. 

Telephone
+44 (0)121 41 45514
Email
k.richter@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ben Warwick

Dr Ben Warwick

Reader in Human Rights Law
Head of Planning and Strategy

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. He is a specialist in international human rights, the United Nations human rights bodies, and human rights in various crisis contexts.

Ben is a lead quality assessor on ...

Telephone
0121 414 6233
Email
b.t.warwick@bham.ac.uk

Professor Karen Yeung

Professor Karen Yeung

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. Her research has been at the forefront of understanding the challenges associated with the regulation and governance of emerging technologies.  Over the course of more than 25 ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 6298
Email
k.yeung@bham.ac.uk