Academic staff at the School of Law

Human Rights Law, British Colonial Indentureship, Law & Humanities, Comparative Equality Law, Citizenship & Migration, Critical Theory

Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States.

Fareda Banda is a human rights lawyer focusing on women and children's rights and a Professor in law at SOAS. She is the author of African Migration, Human Rights and Literature.

Muslim Family law in the UK and Europe, Family Law, Multiculturalism, Citizenship, Islamic Jurisprudence and Human Rights, Feminist and Critical Social and Political Theories, Issues concerning the rights of Muslim women and Gender Equality.

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Public Law, Law and Literature

International economic law; OHADA law; law and development (especially market creation/market integration, governance, and regional development in Sub-Saharan Africa); regionalism; international inequality.

English Company Law, English Commercial Law, German Company Law and Chinese Company Law.

Public international law, international legal history (particularly colonialism and decolonisation), postcolonial and critical legal theory.

Asylum and Immigration law (particularly detention of migrants and foreign prisoners); EU law (particularly migration); Human Rights law; Law and Development 

International and domestic law and policy concerning the environment, natural resources, water, sanitation, agriculture, sustainable development, climate change, health; social rights; intellectual property; India.

Public International Law; international legal history (particularly self-determination of peoples), and legal theory

Middle East laws particularly the civil and commercial law of Egypt ,Saudi Arabia and the Gulf; Islamic  law and particularly the law of succession, wealth planning and Islamic Finance; International Commercial Arbitration; Conflict of laws and Contract

Specialisms: transnational financial law, law of Islamic finance, contract law, comparative law.

Military law, criminal law, international criminal law, peace and security, peacekeeping, critical legal theories

Law and Society of South Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and West Africa (esp. Senegal); Islamic Law; Legal and Social History; Legal and Social Anthropology; Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Colonialism and Slavery in the 18th and 19th Centuries; Marxism; Critical Theory; Global Law/Governance; Cold War Studies.

International Law; Human Rights; Business; Human Rights; Law; Policy of Southeast Asia

My research focuses on how law and gender interacts with national/international instruments and institutions in the protection of (Congolese) refugees against sexual and gender based violence in Angola.

Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental law, Islamic law

Specialises in public law and comparative public law. Co-editor of the series Constitutional Systems of the World published by Hart and contributor of the first volume in the series. His research interests fall under the broad headings: UK constitutional law; UK administrative law; comparative public law; Thailand’s constitutional and legal system.  

Law & Development, Displacement, Resource Governance, Women’s Property Rights andAfrican Legal Theory and Legal Systems

Intellectual property (particularly comparative copyright law); information technology law;  contract law; commercial law in the Middle East

Dr. Percival specialises in the interface between law, society and corporations within the framework of the global political economy, with a focus on the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

Property Law, Contract Law, Company Law, Chinese Law, Law and Economics, Law and Development, Social-legal Studies, Human Rights

Criminal justice;  criminal law; comparative criminal justice; criminal evidence; Chinese law; criminology; Asian legal systems; socio-legal studies.

Principal Lecturer on the Lord Chancellor’s Training Scheme for Young Chinese Lawyers (1998 – 2011).
Hart's Mooting and Oral Skills Senior Teaching Fellow.

Post-Soviet law and legal/institutional reform in Central Asia and CIS; law and development (markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states); law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; human rights.

Public Law, Human Rights (particularly Socio-Economic Rights), Legal Theory, Comparative Law and International Law.

Public international law; human rights, particularly prohibition of torture; victims' rights and reparation; human rights, law reform and justice in Sudan; international refugee law

Climate Change, Water, International Law, Human Rights

International arbitration (commercial and investment); OHADA law; Commercial contracts; International sale of goods; International carriage of goods; Nigerian customary laws.

Law and colonialism; Law and society in South Asia (especially gender issues); Law, image, and architecture; Psychoanalytic jurisprudence; Critical legal theory

Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law.

Anti-terror laws (particularly of South Asia); law and anthropology; legal theory (particularly on theories of emergency legality); sexuality and gender identity in South Asia.

Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North Africa, especially comparative family law; human rights; gender and law, Palestine and the law

Crisis and consumer protection in Africa; quality of goods (obligations, remedies, and redress in Ghana and the UK as influenced in EU law); the African Continental Free Trade Area and consumer contract law.

Atreyee Sengupta

Classical and modern Hindu law; Muslim Law; Laws of South Asia; Family law; Comparative law; South Asians in the UK; Immigration law; Ethnic minorities

The regulation of multinational enterprises, international corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, foreign investment law, WTO law and practice, competition law, international commercial law and development.

Chinese Law & Society, Comparative Dispute Resolution, Chinese Family Studies, Chinese Legal Professions and Administrative Justice in China.

Contract, legal history, British overseas rule and the law especially in relation to the leased territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia, law and society in South East Asia, traditional Chinese law

Hussein Haeri is a partner and Co-Head of the International Arbitration Group at the law firm Withers LLP, where he also leads the firm's public international law team.

Cross-border disputes, international arbitration, commercial contracts, banking and finance, Islamic law and finance, Middle East laws, comparative law

Islam and feminism; Islamic family law, politics of gender and family law in Iran and Morocco