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Choosing a supervisor is one of the most important steps towards completing a successful PhD. Our academic experts specialise in a range of different areas, including global law, financial and commercial law and EU and human rights law.
Find a supervisor who you feel has the expertise to support you and whose specialisms are most closely aligned with your own chosen area of interest.
| Name | Research interests | |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Bolanle Adebola |
Corporate Law, including corporate insolvency law, governance and finance, and comparative corporate law Alternative Dispute Resolution |
b.adebola@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor David Bilchitz |
Comparative Constitutional Law, Business and Human Rights, Socio-Economic Rights, Animal Rights, LGBTQ+ Rights |
d.bilchitz@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Alison Bisset |
Transitional Justice, International Human Rights Law, International Children's Rights |
a.j.bisset@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Thérèse Callus |
Biomedical Law and Ethics, Regulation of assisted conception, parenthood, Family Law and Policy |
m.c.callus@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor James Devenney |
Commercial Law, particularly International/Transnational Commercial Law and Sale of Goods Law, Contract Law, including Comparative Contract Law, Equity and Trusts, Restitution, Consumer Law, particularly Consumer Credit Law, Europeanisation of Private Law |
j.devenney@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Rosa Freedman |
United Nations, particularly human rights bodies and accountability for human rights abuses committed by UN actors International Human Rights Law International Law and International Relations |
r.a.freedman@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Jorge Guira |
Law and Finance Oil and Gas Law Energy Law Securities Law and Regulation International Mergers and Acquisitions International Banking Law International Arbitration |
j.m.guira@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Frances Hamilton |
Gender Sexuality and the Law European Union Free Movement Law and LGBTQ+ rights European Court of Human Rights Law and LGBTQ+ rights LGBTQ+ rights Evolving concepts of marriage |
f.r.hamilton@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Chris Hilson |
Environmental Law and Policy Law and Climate Change Energy Law Law and Social Movements EU Law |
c.j.hilson@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Nora Honkala |
Gender and Law Feminist theory International Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law and Public International Law |
n.a.honkala@reading.ac.uk |
| Ms Rachel Horton |
Equality Law Employment Law Medical Law, particularly discrimination in access to health care Disability Rights |
r.e.horton@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Grace James |
Employment and Labour Law EU Gender Equality Law Discrimination Law |
c.g.james@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Beatrice Krebs |
Criminal Law, particularly complicity, homicide and offences against the person Comparative Criminal Law International Criminal Law |
b.krebs@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Stuart Lakin |
UK Constitutional and Administrative Law Human Rights Law Constitutional Theory Legal Theory |
s.j.lakin@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Gerard McMeel KC |
Commercial Law Contract Law Banking Law and Financial Law and Regulation Unjust Enrichment and Restitution |
g.mcmeel@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Robert Merkin KC |
Insurance, Reinsurance, Arbitration |
r.merkin@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Andrea Miglionico |
Banking regulation (NPLs, loan finance) Financial Law Financial Markets Regulatory technology (AI, Open Banking and Financial Inclusion) |
a.miglionico@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Annika Newnham |
Family Law and Child Law Law and Feminism |
a.newnham@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Kyriaki Noussia |
Insurance law, maritime law (carriage of goods by sea; marine insurance); law of the seas; environmental law; alternative Dispute Resolution (international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration); oil and gas law; investment law; AI and the law (ethical data regulation and usage; autonomous systems regulation) |
k.p.noussia@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Christine Riefa |
European Private Law Commercial Law in particular relating to Consumer Law and Policy (UK, EU, International/ Transnational) Dispute resolution, consumer protection |
c.j.a.riefa@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Michael Schmitt |
International humanitarian law Use of force International cyber law Professor Schmitt also specialises in potential postgraduate research projects led by members of the UK and US Armed Forces |
m.schmitt@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Charlotte Smith |
Legal History, particularly 19th-century legal history and the ecclesiastical law of the Church of England Constitutional Law Law and Religion |
c.l.smith@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr David Wilde |
UK Tax Law Equity and Trusts |
d.c.wilde@reading.ac.uk |
| Professor Aleardo Zanghellini |
Law, Gender and Sexuality, particularly LGBTQ+ rights Jurisprudence Law & Philosophy, particularly moral and political philosophy Law & Literature Queer Legal Theory |
a.zanghellini@reading.ac.uk |
| Dr Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler |
International Refugee Law Electoral Rights and Citizenship Human Rights Law Comparative Constitutional Law International Humanitarian Law |
r.ziegler@reading.ac.uk |