Faculty

Nicholas Bamforth, BCL. MA (Oxon) is a Fellow in Law at Queen's College. He has previously worked at UCL and Cambridge. In 2003-4, he was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University. Since October 2006, he has been an elected member of Oxford's University Council. He is currently serving as the University Junior Proctor.

Susan Bright has been teaching in Oxford since 1992. She joined New College as a Fellow in 2004, having previously been a Fellow at St Hilda's College. She qualified as a solicitor in London, practising in the field of commercial property. At Oxford, she teaches land law, contract law, commercial leases, and housing and human rights.
Her writing is mainly in the field of real property law, especially landlord and tenant law. Her current research interests focus around the home in land law and ‘green leases’. In relation to the home, her work explores the legal models that are used for delivering affordable home ownership, and the considerations that come into play during the legal process when a home is lost. She is currently involved in an empircal project exploring the extent to which non-financial considerations are taken into account in possession cases.  Sue’s green lease work is focussed on the commercial property sector and considers the hurdles and opportunities that leasing patterns present to improving the energy performance of the commercial built environment. A selection of Sue's papers can be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=529157 Sue has been appointed to sit as a part time Lawyer Chair of the Residential Property Tribunal Service. She is also a Fellow of the South African Research Chair in Property Law and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales.

Anne Davies is Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College. She was awarded the title of Reader in Public Law in 2006, and the title of Professor of Law and Public Policy in 2010. She studied at Oxford, completing the BA (winning the Gibbs and Martin Wronker Prizes) and the D.Phil. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College from 1995 to 2001, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan in 1999. Professor Davies is the author of four books and numerous articles in the fields of public law and labour law.
In public law, she has a particular interest in government contracts. Her D.Phil. thesis examined the phenomenon of contractualisation in the NHS from a public law perspective. She developed this research into a book entitled Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government By Contract which was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. She has also written articles on the regulation of the medical profession and on accountability and autonomy issues in the NHS. More recently, she has been working on a wider examination of government procurement and public/private partnership contracts from a public law perspective. Her book The Public Law of Government Contracts was published by OUP in September 2008.
In labour law, Professor Davies is the author of Perspectives on Labour Law, published by Cambridge University Press in the Law in Context series in 2004. The second edition of this book was published in 2009. This book examines a selection of topics in English labour law in the light of international human rights instruments and various economic arguments. Her interests in the labour law field are wide-ranging, encompassing international, European and domestic law. Her latest book, EU Labour Law, was published in May 2012.
Professor Davies gives tutorials in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Labour Law. She lectures in Labour Law for the faculty, and co-teaches the BCL/M.Jur. course in International and European Employment Law.

Timothy Endicott has been Dean of the Faculty of Law since October 2007. He is a Fellow in Law at Balliol College, and has been a Professor of Legal Philosophy since 2006. Professor Endicott writes on Jurisprudence and Constitutional and Administrative Law, with special interests in law and language and interpretation.

He is the author of Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000), and Administrative Law (OUP 2009). After graduating with the AB in Classics and English, summa cum laude, from Harvard, he completed the MPhil in Comparative Philology in Oxford, studied Law at the University of Toronto, and practised as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. He completed the DPhil in legal philosophy in Oxford in 1998.

Sandra Fredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford.  She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law and labour law, including numerous peer-reviewed articles, and three monographs: Human Rights Transformed (OUP 2008); Discrimination Law (2nd ed, OUP 2011); and Women and the Law (OUP 1997),as well as two co-authored books: The State as Employer (Mansell, 1988), with Gillian Morris, and Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain (2nd ed Kluwer, 1992) with Bob Hepple. She has also edited several books: Discrimination and Human Rights: The Case of Racism (OUP,2001); and Age as an Equality Issue (Hart, 2003) with Sarah Spencer; and has written numerous articles in peer-reviewed law journals. She was awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2004 to further her research into socio-economic rights and substantive equality. She is South African and holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford.. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labour legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the UK, India, South Africa, Canada and the UN; and is a barrister practising at Old Square Chambers.

Dr Nazila Ghanea is University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College (BA Keele, MA Leeds, PhD Keele, MA Oxon). She was the founding editor of the international journal of Religion and Human Rights and now serves on its Editorial Board as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She has been a visiting academic at a number of institutions including Columbia and NYU, and previously taught at the University of London and Keele University, UK and in China. Nazila’s research spans freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, women’s rights, minority rights and human rights in the Middle East. Her publications include nine books, three UN publications as well as a number of journal articles and reports. Her research has been funded by the Open Society Institute, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. She has been invited to address UN expert seminars on four occasions. She is currently part of a research term investigating ‘Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: Theory, Policy and Practice’ (2010-2013). She has also received a number of university scholarships and academic awards. Nazila has acted as a human rights consultant/expert for a number of governments, the UN, UNESCO, OSCE, Commonwealth, Council of Europe and the EU. She has facilitated international human rights law training for a range of professional bodies around the world, lectured widely and carried out first hand human rights field research in a number of countries including Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. She is a regular contributor to the media on human rights matters. This coverage has included BBC World Service, BBC Woman’s Hour, The Times, Radio Free Europe, The Guardian, Avvenire, The Telegraph, The National (UAE), New Statesman, Sveriges Radio, TA3 Slovakia and El Pais.

Dr Gilles Giacca is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty and Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations programme. He holds a MA from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a LLM from the University of Essex and holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva and IHEID.

Between 2006 and 2012, Gilles Giacca was teaching assistant and then research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Gilles has advised States, international organizations and NGOs on matters of international law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats and practitioners.

His teaching interests include the law of armed conflict and international human rights law. He regularly delivers lectures for the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) and for the Advanced Training Course on Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva.

Les Green is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College.  He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's University in Canada.  After beginning his teaching career as a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.  He has also been a visiting professor at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin.  Professor Green writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy.  He serves on the board of several journals and is co-editor of the annual Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law and of the book series Oxford Legal Philosophy.

Laura Hoyano graduated from the University of Alberta in Canada with two degrees in medieval history before being converted to law, receiving a JD (Gold Medallist) from the University of Alberta. She was called to the Alberta Bar in 1983 and practised commercial, insurance and catastrophic personal injury law for 10 years, interrupted by a sabbatical year in 1990-91 to read for the B.C.L. at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1994 she decided to return to academic life, moving to England to accept an academic appointment at the Law Faculty of the University of Bristol. In 1999 she was elected to a Tutorial Fellowship and CUF Lectureship at Wadham College in Oxford, where she teaches Tort Law, European Human Rights, Medical Law and Ethics and Evidence. In 2009 she was elected as a Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, with an advisory role concerning the enhancement of diversity at the English Bar. She has conducted empirical research for the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office on prosecutorial decision making and on child abuse prosecutions. She chairs the Independent Advisory Committee on Child Maltreatment convened by Action for Children, which drafted a new offence of child maltreatment which is currently before Parliament. In December 2012 she was invited by the Verma Committee on Amendments to the Criminal Law, appointed as a consequence of  the furore sparked by a gang rape and murder in December 2012, to advise them on reform of substantive sexual assault offences for adults, children and other vulnerable persons, and a range of issues pertaining to more effective trials of such offences, including special measures for vulnerable witnesses, her contribution being acknowledged in the Report and in the national press conference held by Chief Justice Verma. She has recently been consulted by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularies and the NSPCC with regard to their enquiries into the investigation of sexual abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile. She is also frequently consulted by the Ministry of Justice, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Bar Association on a range of issues relating to child abuse and exploitation prosecutions.

LL.M. (Harvard Law School), BA (Oxon). Miles is a Departmental Lecturer in Law and a College Lecturer at St Anne's College. His doctoral research, supported by a Rhodes Scholarship, is on complicity in international law. He teaches European Human Rights Law at the faculty and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law for St Anne's College.

Miles is a former clerk of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a former chair of Oxford Pro Bono Publico.

Mark Janis is a Visiting Fellow at the Law Faculty and a Fellow Commoner at The Queen's College, where he studied law as a Rhodes scholar. He has also been Reader in Law for the Faculty and a Law Fellow at Exeter College. He is William F. Starr Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law where he teaches International Law and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He has written a number of scholarly articles and several books including The American Tradition of International Law (OUP 2004), International Law (Aspen 5th ed. 2008), International Law Cases and Commentary (with J.E. Noyes, West 3d ed. 2006), and European Human Rights Law (with R.S. Kay & A.W. Bradley, OUP 3rd ed. 2008).

Aileen Kavanagh, BCL, MA (University College Dublin); MLE (Hanover); DPhil (Oxon), is a Reader in Law and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She teaches and researches in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, human rights and constitutional theory. After completing her DPhil in constitutional theory at Balliol College, Oxford, she was a Lecturer in Law (2000-06) and Reader (2006-9) at the University of Leicester. She is on the editorial board of Law and Philosophy and Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Law and Philosophy. Recent publications include her book Constitutional Review under the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (CUP, 2009). Her current research focuses on constitutionalism and counter-terrorism, the doctrine of proportionality, and the separation of powers.

Tarun Khaitan is a lecturer and fellow at Wadham College. He is one of the faculty members on the Executive Committee of the Oxford Pro Bono Publico. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA LLB Hons) at the National Law School (Bangalore) between 1999-2004. He then came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed his postgraduate studies (BCL with distinction, MPhil with distinction, DPhil) at Exeter College. Before joining Wadham, he was the Penningtons Student in Law at Christ Church. 

Tarun is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Autonomy, Discrimination and the Law'.

Liora Lazarus, BA (UCT), LLB (LSE), DPhil (Oxon), is a University Lecturer in Law, Member of the Centre for Criminological Research, and Fellow of St. Anne's College. Her primary research interests are in comparative human rights, security and human rights, comparative theory and comparative criminal justice. Born and raised in South Africa, she studied African Economic History at the University of Cape Town and Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1994-95 she was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany. She came to Oxford in 1995 to write her doctorate at Balliol College, after which she went on to become a law fellow at St Anne's College. She is the author of a number of academic books, chapters and articles on prisoners' rights and security and human rights. She has also completed a number of public reports on various aspects of human rights for the UK Ministry of Justice, The UK Stern Review into the treatment of Rape Complaints, and the European Union Parliament. 

Liora is an Associate Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub (http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/themes/humanrightshub/), and is actively involved in the work of Oxford Pro Bono Publico (which she co-founded), and the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group. She is also a research associate at the Centre for Legal and Applied Research, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, and the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She is the book review editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, and she sits on the editorial board of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum and the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She is also a member of an expert advisory group of the Equality and Human Rights Commission which is undertaking an independent review into the existing domestic arrangements for the protection and promotion of socio-economic rights.

Currently, Liora is completing an edited collection entitled Adjudicating Human Rights Diversely. Liora has most recently been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship which will commence in October 2012 and will enable her to undertake research towards the completion of a monograph entitled Juridifying Security and a number of associated articles.  She is also part of an interdisciplinary group - investigating Human Rights for Future Generations - which has recently received 3 years of support from the Oxford Martin School (http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/newsitem=471).

Se-shauna Wheatle LL.B (Hons) (University of the West Indies) BCL (Dist), MPhil (Oxon) is currently Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Exeter College. She came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and has since pursued research in the fields of comparative human rights law and comparative constitutional law.

Alison L Young is Senior Law Tutor at Hertford College and teaches Constitutional law, Administrative law, European Union law and Comparative Public law, as well as providing occasional seminars in Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Principles of the European Union. She is also the Teaching and Learning Officer for the Faculty, having completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.

She studied Law and French at the University of Birmingham, before coming to Hertford College, obtaining BCL and D Phil. She was a tutor in law and a Fellow of Balliol College from 1997 to 2000, before returning to Hertford as a Fellow and Tutor in law in October 2000.

Her D Phil examined defamation law and freedom of expression and she currently researches in applied constitutional theory, public law and human rights, particularly freedom of expression. She is the author of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (Hart, 2009).