Visiting Professors and Honorary Research Fellows

Visiting Judges

• Justice Edwin Cameron, South African Supreme Court of Appeal
• Lord Justice Etherton (Sir Terence Etherton), Lord Justice of Appeal
• Dr. Jur. Ruth Herz, Former judge at the District Court of Cologne, Germany since 1974, Ruth has played the part of the judge in a daily court series on German television.

Visiting Professors

• Lior Barshack, Associate Professor at the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
• Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in a Globalised World, at Utrecht University
• Drucilla Cornell, Professor of Political Science, Women’s Studies and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University
• Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, Professor at All Souls College, Oxford
• Professor Christian Joerges, Fellow and Member of the Centre for European Law and Politics, University of Bremen (ZERP)
• Professor Rebecca Johnson, Law Faculty, University of Victoria, Vancouver. Visiting Professor for 2011-12.
• Professor Sundhya Pahuja, (Professor and Co-Director of the Law and Development Research Programme, Institute for Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne)
• Professor Uriel Procaccia, Head of the LLM Programme in the Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, and is a member of the the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University.
• Professor Renata Salecl, senior researcher in criminology, Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Professor Salecl was awarded the title Slovenian Woman Scientist of the Year by the Slovenian Ministry of Science in October 2010.
• Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
• Stephen Tomsen is Professor of Criminology and Sociology at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Honorary Research Fellows

• Justin D Clemens, University of Melbourne. Dr Clemens has been appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law from 1 January 2012 for a month.
• Leif Dahlberg is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Communication at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. In the autumn 2011 Leif Dahlberg is Visiting Research Fellow at Birkbeck School of Law and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London.
• Giovanni Riccio, Honorary Research Fellow (Professor of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Salerno, Italy)
• Dr Jon Roffe, Honorary Research Fellow (McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne)
• Peter Rush, Honorary Research Fellow (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne)
• Marty Slaughter, Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck School of Law

Past academic visitors

• The following visited the School of Law as Visiting Professors or Honorary Research Fellows from the various institutes that they were attached to at the time.
• Jaime Stapleton, Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck School of Law.
• Anne SY Cheung, Honorary Visiting Research Fellow for 2011. Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Hong Kong.
• Sanjay Gupta, from Lucknow University, Visiting Commonworth Fellow from 1 October 2010 - 31 March 2011. Working with Professor Bill Bowring on Human rights.
• Catherine Dauvergne, Honorary Research Fellow in 2009 (Canada Research Chair in Migration Law, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
• Eugene Macnamee, lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Ulster, HRF (1 November 2009 until 31 July 2010).
• Giovanni Riccio, Professor of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Salerno, Italy, was appointed as Honorary Research Fellow from 1 September 2009 to 31 July 2010.
• David Gurnham, Lecturer in Healthcare Law and Ethics, University of Manchester (2009)
• Ms Nam-Kyoung Lee, Public Prosecutor, Uijungbu District Prosecutors’ Office, the Republic of Korea, (July 2009 - September 2009)
• Joana Estorninho Almeida, Faculty of Law, New University of Lisbon, Research and Development Centre on Law and Society (CEDIS) (2008-9)
• Andrés González Sanfiel, Lecturer in administrative law, University of La Laguna, Faculty of Law, Tenerife, Canary Islands (February-May 2008)
• Ms. Peng Xia, Law school, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China (spring 2008)
• Dr. Christophe Germann, Avocat - Rechtsanwalt - Attorney at Law, DEA (Master) en études européennes (2007-8)
• Ms Yoriko Otomo, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, University of Melbourne (October 2007 - February 2008)
• Professor Bill Conklin, University of Windsor, Canada (April – July 2007)
• Professor Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Utrecht University. Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck (October 2007)
• Sandra Mayzaw Lwin, Assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of English and the American Studies Program at Yale University (summer term 2007)
• Dr Marett Leiboff, Queensland University of Technology, School of Law, Australia (June - July 2007)
• Professor Carl Stychin, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise), The University of Reading (2007)
• China Mieville Two-year Research Fellowship (2006-8)
• Professor Rosi Braidotti, Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Utrecht University. Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck (2005-6)
• Dr. Cornelia Vismann, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Max Planck Institut f|r Europdische Rechtsgeschichte (Spring 2006)
• Dr Gail Mason, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney (March - May 2006)
• Mr Shinji Muramatsu, Department of Law, Nihon Bunka College, Japan (April 2005-March 2006)
• Suresh Nanwani, The Asian Development Bank (October 2005)
• Dr Roshan de Silva Wijeyratne, Griffith University, School of Law (September 2005-January 2006)
• Dr Peter Bartlett, Senior lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham (January 2005 - January 2006)
• Professor Morris Kaplan, Purchase College, State University of New York (January 2006 - June 2006)
• Professor Karin Van Marle, The University of Pretoria (October 2005 - March 2006)
• Dr Dimitris Karambelas, University of Athens (April 2005 - March 2006)
• Dr. Fleur Johns, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Leverhulme Visiting Fellowship to Birkbeck (November 2005 - August 2006)
• Thomas Cushman, Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College (Spring 2005)
• Mr Shinji Muramatsu, Department of Law, Nihon Bunka College, Japan (April 2005 - March 2006)
• Professor Rosi Bradotti, The Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, Utrecht University (October 2004)
• Dr Desmond Manderson, McGill University, Montreal (April - May 2004)
• Dr Ravit Reichman, The Department of English, Brown University, (June - July 2004)
• Dr Jörn Ahrens, Department for Cultural Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, (February - March 2004)
• Narnia Bohler-Müller, The University of the Western Cape (Spring 2004)
• Dr Peter Rush, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia, (December 2003 - February 2004)
• Alison Young, Associate Professor and Reader in the Department of Criminology at the University of Melbourne, Australia (December 2003 – February 2004)
• Professor Judith Allsop, Professor of Health Policy at De Montfort University (October 2003 - July 2004)
• Professor George C. Pavlich, The Department of Sociology, University of Alberta, (September to 15 December 2004)
• Lesley Hitchens, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia (April-May 2004)
• Professor Patricia J. Woods, The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (June 2004)
• Professor Ruth Buchanan, Associate Professor in the The University of British Columbia, Canada (January - June 2003)
• Dr Peter Bartlett, Senior lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham (June-November 2003)
• Dr Gail Mason, Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies at The University of Sydney, Australia (June - December 2002)
• Dr Wessel Le Roux, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence at The University of South Africa (April - July 2002)
• Professor Lawrence Douglas, Associate Professor in the Department of law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, Massachussets, USA (1999 -July 2001)