Faculty announces 12 academic appointments following major recruitment programme

The Faculty is delighted to announce appointments to twelve academic posts as part of a major recruitment exercise. Seven of the posts are entirely new, representing a substantial expansion of the Faculty’s breadth and depth across its research activities and teaching programmes; in particular, the new posts will support the Faculty’s curriculum diversification agenda, including at postgraduate level.

Dr Peter Candy

Peter has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in Civil Law. He currently holds a fixed-term Assistant Professorship in Civil Law in the Faculty, having previously been an Early Career Fellow in Roman Law and European Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Peter's monograph on Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2024.

Dr Jennifer Cobbe

Jennifer will join the Faculty as a University Assistant Professor in Law and Technology. Currently a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Cambridge, Jennifer’s research focusses on legal responses to new technologies, with particular interests in the socio-political power of tech companies and the legal implications of automated decision-making.

Dr Jan Ewing

Jan will join the Faculty as a fixed-term Assistant Professor in Family Law. She currently combines a Research Fellowship at the University of Exeter with a teaching role at Queen Mary, University of London, and is the co-author of Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes in Neo-Liberal Times, which was awarded the Hart-SLSA Book Prize in 2018. Jan's co-authored monograph, The right to be heard: children's voices, family disputes and child-inclusive mediation will be published by Bristol University Press next year.

Professor Stephen Gilmore

Stephen will join the Faculty as Professor of Family Law and Director of Cambridge Family Law, the Faculty’s Family Law research centre. He is currently Professor of Family Law at King’s College London and Vice-Dean for Academic Staffing at the Dickson Poon School of Law. A leading authority on child law, he is the author of Hayes and Williams’ Family Law, the eighth edition of which will be published this year by OUP.

Dr Rory Gregson

Rory, who is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in Private Law. Rory’s research examines the intersection between different areas of private law. He is currently working on a monograph on subrogation and marshalling, which will be published by Hart Publishing.

Dr Hend Hanafy

Hend has been appointed to a fixed-term Assistant Professorship in Criminal Law. She is currently a Teaching and Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, and previously taught at Cairo University. Hend's research focusses on criminal law and penal theory; she is currently working on a monograph on punishment in authoritarian regimes.

Dr Lena Holzer

Lena, who is currently an Assistant Professor in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London, will join the Faculty as an Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and the Law. Her research advances critical legal scholarship on gender and race inequalities with a strong focus on intersectional forms of discrimination and global power inequalities. Lena's PhD thesis, written at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, won the 2022 SNIS Award for the best dissertation in international studies in Switzerland.

Dr Tor Krever

Tor has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in International Law. At present, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Tor is the Co-General Editor of the London Review of International Law, published by OUP; his work focusses on the history and theory of international law, and on critical approaches to international law and left-legal theory more generally.

Dr Narine Lalafaryan

Narine will join the Faculty as a University Assistant Professor in Corporate Law. She is currently a Lecturer in Corporate/Financial Law at UCL and the Convenor of the Corporate Law LL.M. specialism. Narine has particular research interests in Corporate Finance, Law and Economics, International Finance, Economics of Deals, and Corporate Law. In 2022, she was awarded the Society of Legal Scholars' Best Paper Prize for her article in Legal Studies entitled ‘Orchestrating Finance with Material Adverse Changes?’.

Dr Brian Sloan

Brian has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in Property Law. He currently holds a fixed-term Assistant Professorship in Property Law in the Faculty, having previously been a College Teaching Officer at Robinson College, Cambridge. Brian is the author of Borkowski’s Law of Succession (OUP 2020), the editor of Landmark Cases in Succession Law (Hart 2019) and the co-editor of Spaces of Care (Hart 2020).

Dr Stefan Theil

Stefan has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in Public Law. He is currently a fixed-term Assistant Professor in Public Law in the Faculty, having previously been an Early Career Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights in Oxford. Stefan’s monograph, Towards the Environmental Minimum (CUP 2021), argues for the recognition of a comprehensive public law framework that addresses the relationship between human rights and environmental harm.

Dr Sophie Turenne

Sophie is currently a Senior Lecturer in Law at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, has been appointed to a University Assistant Professorship in Comparative Law. She has published widely in the field of Comparative Law and has particular interests in comparative constitutional law, European constitutionalism and judicial institutional structures and independence. Sophie is currently leading a European Law Institute project on European standards of judicial independence.

Commenting on these appointments, Professor Mark Elliott, Chair of the Faculty of Law, said: "This major recruitment exercise represents a unique opportunity for the Faculty in terms of developing the intellectual reach and diversity of our research and teaching activities. I am delighted that we will be welcoming colleagues to these new roles at the beginning of the next academic year and look forward to working with them. I am enormously grateful to the many colleagues who have contributed to the success of this exceptional recruitment programme."