Directory of experts

Research specialisms

• Theories of law and society
• Theories of law and state
• Public law and the legal regulation of government
• Social basis of constitutional and administrative law
• Procedures and procedural justice
• Discretionary powers in government

Research specialisms

• human rights and legal reforms in China and Asia
• administrative detention and criminal law issues
• the relationship between rule of law and human rights

Research specialisms

• rectification of historic international injustice
• restitution of misappropriated cultural policy
• international distributive justice

Research specialisms

• Social security and labour rights
• Welfare to work

Research specialisms

• Comparative legal cultures  
• Legal and institutional transplants
• Rule of law and development
• Relations between the free market, the state and civil society in transitional countries

Phil ClarkResearch specialisms

• Causes of, and social, legal, cultural and political responses to, genocide and ethnic conflict
• Concepts and practice of transitional justice and reconciliation
• The role of international, national and community-based courts in addressing mass atrocity
• Peacebuilding, security and post-conflict reconstruction
• Politics of international law, particularly of the International Criminal Court