Welcome

I am the Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham where I am also the Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer for the College of Arts and Law.

My work focuses on counter-terrorism, human rights, abortion law and policy, and comparative public law. These topics are drawn together by my interest in the work that ‘human rights’ does in complex and divisive policy fields. I supervise a number of graduate students working on human rights law and practice, constitutionalism and comparative law. In 2017 I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law, which has provided support for my research from November 2018 until November 2025.

Outside of work, I play tennis (enthusiastically) and golf (rarely), and enjoy cooking (I track my cooking efforts on Instagram). I am married and live in Birmingham.

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