GTA positions available for 2025-26
Please refer to the description of the scheme before applying.
Faculty of Law
GTA opportunities 2025-26
Subject: Advanced Criminal Law
Convenor: Jonathan Herring
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas and Hilary
Topic(s): to be agreed with successful applicant, but may well include sexual offences
Tutorial teaching hours: 24
Administrative and related tasks: preparing reading list; co-ordinating seminars, etc.
Subject: Company Law
Convenor: Chris Hare
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas and Hilary
Topic(s): 7 topics across the Company Law syllabus
Tutorial teaching hours: up to 24
Administrative and related tasks: collections marking
Subject: Copyright Trade Marks and Allied Rights
Convenor: Dev Gangjee
Number of GTAs required: two
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Copyright Law
Tutorial teaching hours: likely to be condensed into certain weeks - 12 hours of tutorials per week for 3 weeks
Administrative and related tasks: updating Canvas with slides/materials, scheduling tutorials, etc.
Subject: Criminology and Criminal Justice
Convenor: Leila Ullrich
Number of GTAs required: two
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, Trinity
Topic(s): There will be one tutorial per thematic bloc and GTAs can choose which tutorial topics within the bloc they would like to focus on depending on their research expertise/interest.
The thematic blocs are:
- Criminology: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of Crime and Criminal Justice
- New Forms of Criminological Knowledge
- Criminal Justice Institutions, Processes and Actors
- Global Approaches to Criminal Justice and their Alternatives
Tutorial teaching hours: 4 thematic sessions x 12 tutorial groups = 48 tutorials
Administrative and related tasks: Answering student queries, organizing and running the tutorials, room bookings, coordinating with the FHS convenor and different FHS lecturers, updating the reading list, coordinating collection marking, collection marking
Subject: Employment Law
Convenor: Anne Davies
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Personal scope, wages and working time, dismissal, equality, freedom of association, right to strike
Tutorial teaching hours: 6 hours per student (possibly plus a two-hour revision class if required)
Administrative and related tasks: Organising their own tutorials, marking essays and collections
Subject: Family Law
Convenor: Jonathan Herring / Rachel Taylor
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): one or two of: marriage and cohabitation, parenthood, parental disputes or child protection
Tutorial teaching hours: 12-23
Administrative and related tasks: answering queries from undergraduates; organising reading list and teaching co-ordination
Subject: Feminist Perspective on Law
Convenor: Jonathan Herring
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): To be discussed with applicants, but include violence against women
Tutorial teaching hours: 24
Administrative and related tasks: arranging timetabling, organising tutorials, updating reading list.
Subject: Comparative Law
Convenor: Lionel Smith
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Comparative methodology; comparative property law (if necessary)
Tutorial teaching hours: up to 24
Administrative and related tasks: none
Subject: History of English Law
Convenor: Ian Williams
Number of GTAs required: 2
Full or half retainer: half
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): one for History of contract law; one for history of land law (family provision and leases)
Tutorial teaching hours: 10 each
Administrative and related tasks: none (other than preparation and marking)
Subject: Law and Technology
Convenor: Justine Pila
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: half or full (depending on hours)
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): Law and Technology - AI, data protection/privacy, biotech/Assisted reproductive techs, digital regulation, Legal/Tech philosophy, with flexibility around the expertise of the GTA
Tutorial teaching hours: Between 20 and 30
Administrative and related tasks: Arranging and running tutorials, answering tutorial-related questions, marking tutorial essays.
Subject: Medical Law and Ethics
Convenor: Imogen Gould
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): flexible around the expertise of the GTA
Tutorial teaching hours: 40
Administrative and related tasks: Arrange tutorials, update reading list, field student queries.
Subject: Moral and Political Philosophy
Convenor: Grant Lamond
Number of GTAs required: one
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary
Topic(s): (1) Utilitarianism; (2) Kant; (3) and (4) two out of the following six topics -- objectivity, amorlaism, Aristotle, plural values, moral responsibility, moral luck; and (5) and (6) two out of the following four topics -- liberty, equality, justice, democracy
Tutorial teaching hours: 42
Administrative and related tasks: Organising own tutorials; answering queries from students; assisting in the updating of the core reading list, and marking collections
Subject: Public International Law
Convenor: Miles Jackson
Number of GTAs required: 5
Full or half retainer: full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, Trinity
Topic(s): Nature - Sources - Treaties - Subjects - Jurisdiction and Immunity - Dispute Settlement - State Responsibility - Use of Force
Tutorial teaching hours: On average 4 hours a week x 8 weeks (over the course of the three terms) = 32 hours
Administrative and related tasks: marking of essays, a collection and a revision session in Trinity Term
Subject: Taxation Law
Convenor: Edwin Simpson
Number of GTAs required: 1
Full or half retainer: Full
Term(s): Michaelmas, Hilary, Trinity
Topic(s): Employment income tax, business income tax, tax policy, tax avoidance, capital taxes, and possibly taxation of trusts
Tutorial teaching hours: up to 48
Administrative and related tasks: supporting the Departmental Lecturer, supporting the administration and organisation of the course (e.g., room booking, the course's canvas pages and reading lists) and marking collections.