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 DR SHARON COWAN
Dr Cowan is Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Medical Jurisprudence.
Her research interests include: Gender, Sexuality and the Law; Feminist Legal Theory; Criminal Law; Criminal Justice; Law and Film. She is working on a book project on a feminist analysis of consent in the criminal law; and a research project looking at women asylum applicants whose claims involve an alleged rape. She is currently co-director of the Centre.
Email: s.cowan@ed.ac.uk
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PROFESSOR NEIL WALKER
Neil Walker holds the Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh.
His main area of expertise is constitutional theory. He has published widely on the constitutional dimension of legal order at sub-state, state, supranational and international levels. He has also published at length on the relationship between security, legal order and political community. He maintains a more general interest in broader questions of legal theory as well as in various substantive dimensions of UK and EU public law. He is currently co-director of the Centre.
Email: neil.walker@ed.ac.uk
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 PROFESSOR RICHARD SPARKS
Professor Sparks is Professor of Criminology and the Director of the Centre for Law and Society.
His main research interests lie in the sociology of punishment (especially imprisonment); penal politics; and public responses to crime and punishment.
He is currently supervising the following doctoral students: Georgios Papanicolaou and Assanee Sangkhanate.
Email: r.sparks@ed.ac.uk
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 DR CLAUDIO MICHELON
Dr Michelon is Senior Lecturer in Law.
His research interests include the interfaces between legal reasoning and general practical reason and the philosophy of private law.
Email: c.michelon@ed.ac.uk
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DR ALISTAIR HENRY
Dr Henry is Lecturer in Criminology.He is currently researching community policing and community safety partnerships in Scotland. His research interests also include: theoretical criminology, police and policing, and the sociology of criminal justice institutions and agencies.
Email: a.henry@ed.ac.uk
DR CORMAC MAC AMHLAIGH is Lecturer in Public Law. He is currently working on a project involving approaches to sovereignty in European integration from law and political and international relations theory.
Email: cormac.mac.amhlaigh@ed.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR DOREEN MCBARNET is Professor in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Law School. Her main research interest is corporate social responsibility and the law.
Email: doreen.mcbarnet@ed.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR STEPHEN TIERNEY
Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory and British Academy Senior Research Fellow 2008-2009. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of public law and international law. He is currently supervising the following doctoral students: Jung-hyun Cho, and Lorenzo Cotula.
Email: s.tierney@ed.ac.uk
MR JAMES CHALMERS is Senior Lecturer in Law. His main research interests are doctrinal criminal law, evidence and procedure, empirical criminal justice research, law and the public health.
Email: james.chalmers@ed.ac.uk
DR RICHARD JONES
Dr Jones is Lecturer in Criminology. His research interests are in the areas of theoretical criminology, social control, surveillance and security, cybercrime, and penal populism. He is currently supervising the following doctoral students: Gemma Flynn, Richard Bethune.
Email: richard.jones@ed.ac.uk
PROFESSOR LESLEY MCARA
Lesley McAra is Professor of Penology. Her main research interests lie in the general areas of the sociology of punishment and the sociology of law and deviance.
Email: Lesley.McAra@ed.ac.uk
DR ANNA SOUHAMI
Dr Anna Souhami is Lecturer in Criminology. Her main research interests are in the sociology of criminal justice policy and practice, in particular in relation to questions of organisation, culture and identity. She has a particular interest in ethnographic methodologies and has conducted ethnographic work in the fields of both youth justice and policing.
Email: anna.souhami@ed.ac.uk
PROFESSOR GERRY MAHER is Professor of Criminal Law. His main research interests are criminal law and criminal process, international private law, legal process, and debt and diligence.
Email: Gerard.Maher@ed.ac.uk.
DR ANDY AITCHISON
Dr Aitchison is Lecturer in Social Policy. His primary research interests include criminal justice reforms in post-authoritarian and post-conflict societies, with a particular focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina; the role of international agencies in agenda setting; and criminal justice policy more generally. More recently, he has started working on the role of criminal justice agencies in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Email: andy.aitchison@ed.ac.uk
PROFESSOR SIR NEIL MACCORMICK
Our great friend and colleague, and one of the founding members of the Centre, Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, died in April 2009. A tribute to Neil can be found on the Law School website, here.
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PROFESSOR ANNE GRIFFITHS
PROFESSOR BURKHARD SCHAFER
PROFESSOR SUSAN MCVIE