- Members of the Centre
Members of the Centre
Centre Co-Directors
Andrew Williams
Andrew qualified as a solicitor in 1986. He joined Warwick Law School in 1996. He obtained an LLM in Public Law from the University of Bristol in 1993 and a PhD from the University of Warwick in 2003 when he was also presented with the Warwick University Award for Teaching Excellence. Andrew's research interests currently focus on three main areas; human rights and the EU, human rights and clinical legal education and international criminal law.
James Harrison
James Harrison previously worked for several human rights NGOs and qualified as a solicitor at one of the leading human rights law firms in the UK, Bindman and Partners Solicitors. He was also Research and Programmes Co-ordinator at the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre. James' research interests include issues of human rights and equality in the economic sphere (e.g. in public spending decisions, in international economic law etc.) He is also interested in methodologies for conducting equality and human rights impact assessments. He has worked as a consultant for a number of organisations including the Council of Europe, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Amnesty International, Article 19, the Canadian Council for International Cooperation and the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
Associates
Dallal Stevens
Dallal qualified as a solicitor in 1990. She joined Warwick in the same year and is currently Associate Professor in the Law School. Dallal's research interests are in refugee and asylum law and policy. She has written on various aspects of the law and history of UK asylum and has published a book entitled ‘UK Asylum Law and Policy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives’. Recently, Dallal has been engaged in research on the refugee policy of the Middle East. She has led a project on Iraqi refugees in Jordan funded by the BA, and is examining the developing refugee law of Israel as part of a collaborative research initiative examining the global impact of European asylum policies.
Octavio Ferraz
Octavio's main research interests are in the field of law and development, especially the impact of law in social justice, and comparative and international human rights, particularly in the area of economic and social rights and the role of courts in the enforcement of those rights. Octavio is currently taking part in an international project funded by the Ford Foundation and led by Prof. Oscar Vilhena (Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Sao Paulo, Brazil) on the justiciability of fundamental rights in the supreme courts of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA project).
Shaheen Ali
Shaheen Ali's research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, Women and Child Rights and International Law of Human Rights. She has written and published extensively in her areas of research and recieved a number of awards including the British Muslims Annual Honours achievement plaque in the House of Lords in May 2002 and she was awarded the Star Woman Award of the Year (1996) in the field of Law, Pakistan by The Star Girls and Women Foundation, Karachi, Pakistan. Shaheen has just been reelected as Vice Chair of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Jacqueline Hodgson
Jackie has researched and written in the areas of criminal justice and comparative criminal justice. Much of her work draws upon her own externally funded empirical research. Her current work includes a study of the role of Criminal Cases Review Commission; research into the investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences in Britain and in France; the changing concept of prosecutorial independence in Britain and in France; the protection of suspects' rights within EU criminal justice. She is currently working on an EU-funded research project investigating how suspects' rights are implemented in practice in Scotland, France, England & Wales and the Netherlands. This will also result in best practice training materials for criminal practitioners. Research project podcast.
Rebecca Probert
Rebecca Probert started her career as a Research Assistant at the Law Commission, and went on to teach at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the University of Sussex before joining Warwick Law School in 2002. She teaches and researches in the area of family law and child law, with a particular focus on marriage and cohabitation, and has published widely in this area (Cretney and Probert’s Family Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 7th ed, 2009); IEL Family and Succession Law: England and Wales 37 (Kluwer, 3nd edition, 2012)). Her recent book The Rights and Wrongs of Royal Marriage: How the law has led to heartbreak, farce and confusion and why it must be changed (Takeaway, 2011) examines the human rights arguments relating to royal marriages and makes proposals for change.
