Birkbeck Law Review: Relaunch
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Birkbeck Central
The Birkbeck Law Review relaunch will feature a panel of esteemed legal academics, an opportunity to network within the Law Faculty and information about the call for papers for the relaunch edition.
We will also hear from the Birkbeck Law Review Editor-in-Chief, Parmida Kafi Keramati, and Dr Victoria Ridler, Head of Birkbeck Law School. There will also be light refreshments.
Speakers
Professor Daniel Monk
Daniel Monk joined the Law School as a Lecturer in January 2003 and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2017. From 1996–2002 he was a lecturer in law at Keele University. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1991 and was an articled clerk (trainee solicitor) at the West End entertainment law firm Clintons. He was an editor at Butterworths Publishers while studying part-time for his Masters degree.
He was a founding member of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS), established in 2008 and its Director from 2012-2015.
His research has explored a wide range of issues relating to families, children, education and sexuality. He has been awarded funding by the Nuffield Foundation, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society of Legal Scholars, the British Academy and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. He has had Visiting Professorships at the University of Antwerp and Tel Aviv University. He has been awarded two Public Engagement awards in recognition of the impact of his research about the treatment of siblings in the public care system (2019) and the regulation of Elective Home Education (2018).
Title: Law reform and the legal regulation of home education: How much autonomy should parents have?
Dr Craig Reeves
Dr Reeves studied law at the University of Southampton and went on to complete his Masters in philosophy at the University of Essex. Craig's PhD, awarded by Kings College London, explored the idea of freedom in critical theory and law. Craig has taught at various institutions, including as Lecturer in Law at Brunel University, where was Course Convenor for criminal law and jurisprudence. Craig joined Birkbeck in 2014 as Lecturer in Law.
Title: Persecution, Punishment and the Potential for Freedom: Adorno’s Critical Moral Psychology Toda
Dr Heather Allansdottir
Dr Heather Allansdottir is a lecturer of law and founder of the space consultancy Astrodottir. She completed a doctorate in comparative constitutional law at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (2011-2016) and subsequently held academic posts in Australia, Iceland and the UK. Her forthcoming book on space law, New Perspectives in Outer Space Law, is due out with Springer in 2025.
Title: Can We Decolonise the Cosmos?
Sashagay McIntosh
Sashagay is the University Partnerships Account Manager at BARBRI with a strong focus on enhancing the student experience and supporting the transition from undergraduate degree to solicitors qualifying exams preparation. She completed an undergraduate degree in law with international arbitration at Brunel University of London and a Masters Degree in Law. Sashagay has recently taken the New York Bar Exam. With a deep understanding of academic partnerships and students’ needs, Sashagay is dedicated to fostering meaningful connections with universities and students.
Terri (Taz) Brookes
Terri (Taz) Brookes is a solicitor, legal consultant, and doctoral researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, where her PhD examines neurodiversity and anti-discrimination law in the justice system. She holds dual LLMs with distinction and Higher Rights of Audience (Civil).
Her career includes roles at the Government Legal Department, the National Education Union, and as founder of E4A Legal Services CIC, providing accessible advice and advocacy. Taz is recognised for her expertise in corporate governance, organisational structures, employment law, and for championing social justice, equality, diversity and inclusion.
She is also an active legal commentator, publishing thought-provoking LinkedIn articles on topics ranging from human rights and AI to insolvency, taxation, environmental law, politics, and the economy. Passionate about creative communication, Taz champions visual storytelling as a powerful way to make complex legal frameworks engaging, accessible, and socially relevant.
Title: The Art of Law: Power, Persuasion, and Visual Storytelling
Dr Susanna Menis
Dr Susanna Menis (Susy) is a Lecturer in Law and has been teaching in higher education since 2009. She joined the School of Law at Birkbeck as a PhD student in 2006; since then, she has taught several law and criminology modules as an associate lecturer. In 2018, she was appointed a lecturer and serves as the Programme Director for the Certificate HE Legal Studies. In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Birkbeck Public Engagement Award, and in 2020 she was shortlisted by Birkbeck as a candidate for the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme.
Since its inception, Susy has been a member and Chair of Birkbeck’s Advisory Board for the HR Research Excellence Award. This has been an opportunity to advocate for voices that are usually hidden. Susy’s approach to supporting PhD students (as Lead) is inspired by the scholarship on holistic academic development and the movement #PositiveAcademia.
Susy’s research sits at the intersection of English criminal law, criminal justice (and criminology), and socio-cultural practices. Susy is also interested in the relationship between history and policy and has written on the historical policy development of women’s prisons in England and the historical development of university legal education. Whether she writes about the first English woman to be awarded a law degree (Eliza Orme), the role of the emotion of disgust in judicial decisions, or masculinity and patriarchy in criminal law doctrine, she is committed to questioning commonly held beliefs, knowledge production, hierarchy, invisibility and otherness.
Susy has also worked and volunteered with several organisations and charities, such as the Prison Advice and Care Trust, Women in Prison and Prisoners’ Families and Friends’ Services. Her last engagement within the CJS was with the Independent Monitoring Board of Prisons for one of London’s biggest category B male prisons.
Title: Unconscious bias in judicial decisions: Legal Genealogy and Emotions in Cases of private, adult, consensual sexual acts leading to injury.
Contact name: Stewart Motha
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