We hope to be able to welcome you in person at induction, but as you will appreciate the academic year 2020/21 is going to be rather different from previous years. Despite this, we hope that you will have a chance to meet your fellow students and the lecturers who will teach you either in person or virtually.
We welcome students from law and non-law disciplines and from the UK and abroad. It is this rich mix that makes the taught LLM at Newcastle Law School a special and unique experience for staff and students. On these web pages you will find details about the programmes, short synopses about the different modules on offer, and a bit about the staff who will be teaching you, especially the research that they are engaged in which underpins their teaching on the LLM.
Sue's research interest lie in the field of human rights and property, encompassing in particular the rights of women, children and indigenous people, and land, natural resources and intellectual property. Many of her publications use case studies from the Pacific island states to explore larger themes. Much of her work adopts a comparative focus and she is interested in legal pluralism and the interface of traditional and modern systems of law.
Sarah'sprincipal teaching and research interests lie in the fields of company and corporate law, and more specifically mergers and acquisitions. She was the co-convenor of a series of events for the funded project ‘Regulating the Tyrell Corporation’ and established a new network of expertise, which considers future technological developments in AI and synthetic biology. A future goal for this group is to assist in developing proposals for appropriate regulation for the responsible development, operation, and disposal of the technologies by multinational corporations. Follow the project on twitter @novel_beings
Ilke'stwo main areas of research interests are the socio-legal and ethical issues associated with biomedicine, and the regulation of emerging medical technologies. Owing to her background, she brings a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to her research which enables her to apply insights and perspectives from science and technology studies, bioethics, and law.
Her current research is in the socio-legal construction of intergenerational and transgenerational justice. There are two lines of her research:
Epigenetics: the ways in which developments in epigenetics research influence how maternal responsibility and rights are perceived. In line with that, her recent research focuses on the ways in which the claims associated with epigenetics may give rise to legal claims. She was awarded British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Grant SRG18R1\180531 to explore this: ‘Sins of the mother: Socio-legal imaginaries of epigenetics’. (01/05/2019-30/08/2020)
Human genome editing: the regulatory and ethical aspects of human germline editing. In this context, she particularly focused on the meaning and limits of reproductive autonomy, and how our reproductive decisions may affect the future generations.
Elliot is a lawyer and academic specialising in international humanitarian law. He conducts research, teach and deliver external training in this field. His research has featured in leading journals, including those published by both Oxford and Cambridge University Press. he has taught in the United Kingdom and United States and has delivered training for the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.
Andrew's main research interest is in the area of trade mark law and branding. He is also interested in the relationship between this area and company law/ business organisation and in the application of law and economics. He is currently working on projects which examine the relationship between trade marks/ brands and business organisation, corporate social responsibility, innovation, consumerism and the free movement of goods. Since trade mark law is currently harmonised at the European level, he's also planning to develop projects on the impact of Brexit in this area.
He has supervised successful Ph.D candidates on various topics in the areas of trade mark law, general intellectual property law, company law and corporate governance.
Rhona’s principal areas of interest are international human rights, human rights/civil liberties and public law. Much of her previous work has focussed on human rights capacity building in education and justice sectors.
Conall’s research interests lie in the fields of human rights, public law and international law. One strand of his research explores the extraterritorial application of human rights law. His current research focuses on the relationship between the state and its nationals in distress abroad. He has worked with both the NGO Reprieve and the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions on this issue.
Bryan is a socio legal scholar with interests in mediation and alternative dispute resolution and in particular how these processes interact with formal civil justice and the workings of lawyers and judges. He also has interests in aspects of commercial law and access to justice more broadly. Bryan is currently Deputy Head of Department.
Ole's research focuses on various aspects of environmental law and energy law (in particular fracking). He has a general interest in all legal and regulatory matters relating to the environment, a keen interest in the relationship between environmental issues and human rights and is interested in the theoretical foundations of environmental law as well as the role played by the courts in shaping environmental law.
Present research projects include a book-length project titled Environmental Adjudication, jointly authored with Emma Lees, examining into the role of the courts in modern environmental law due to be published with Hart in 2020, a study into the use of enforcement undertakings by regulators, and a project examining the ECtHR's contribution to the emerging field of environmental rights.
He is currently supervising research students researching constitutional environmental rights, climate change and flooding, and environmental torts. He is interested in supervising research students in various aspects of environmental law, in particular the areas of environmental rights, environmental justice, climate change, and international environmental law.
Lilian'sresearch revolves generally around the regulation of new technologies but in particular the Internet, and the Internet of Things. In recent years she has moved towards specialisation in privacy and data protection, especially as applied to AI and algorithms. Beyond privacy, she is interested in algorithmic transparency and justice; robots and autonomous/connected vehicles; and regulation of platforms, especially social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. She is a recognised expert in European intermediary liability and the E-Commerce Directive. Currently Lilain is looking at the idea of "data trusts" to help in connected /IoT/smart environments; and at regulation of "deepfakes" or synthetic data and media.
Depending on student numbers and the need for social distancing in the physical space that we use this session may be repeated on Wednesday 14th October at the same time. If we need to split the cohort, students will be notified nearer the time.
Programme
Welcome to the Law School (Dr Jonathan Galloway, Head of School) tbc
Welcome to the PGT LLM and an Introduction the programmes (Dr Sue Farran Director of the PGT Programme)
Blended learning and the challenges for IT and web-based safety and ethics (Dr Ben Farrand)
The Centrality of Equality, Diversity and Inclusiveness (Dr Christine Beuermann)
The Legal Toolbox and some of the Tricks of Studying Law (Dr Sue Farran)