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Dr Adam Ramshaw

Assistant Professor

Department: Northumbria Law School

Adam is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria Law School. He is the Deputy Convenor of the Law and Society Research Group. 

Adam has published in leading journals such as Legal Studies, the European Law Review, and the European Human Rights Law Review.

Adam's research is broadly concerned with human rights, constitutional law, and legal theory. Adam is particularly interested in how courts use concepts such as proportionality to assess the infringement of fundamental rights.

Adam is a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College. 

Before academia Adam practised as a paralegal at Bond Dickinson, taking instructions from the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills.

Adam Ramshaw

Human rights, constitutional law, and legal theory.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • A Crack in the Mirror: Reclaiming the Human Rights Narrative from Strasbourg in Agenda Setting Theory and Legal Narrative, Ramshaw, A. 16 Jun 2022, In: European Human Rights Law Review
  • Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 11, Farran, S., Hewitson, R., Ramshaw, A. 26 Aug 2024
  • What could have been and may yet still be: Brexit, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the right to have rights , Ramshaw, A. 2 Dec 2020, In: European Law Review
  • ‘World of Warcraft is My Home From Home’: An Argument for the Protection of Virtual Worlds, Ramshaw, A. 10 Dec 2020, In: Journal of Law, Technology and Trust
  • The Case for Replicable Structured Full Proportionality Analysis in all Cases Concerning Fundamental Rights, Ramshaw, A. 1 Mar 2019, In: Legal Studies

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Organising a conference, workshop, ...: Human Rights in the United Kingdom under Conservative Government (2010 - 2024) 2024
  • Membership of council: UKRI (External organisation) 2023
  • Publication Peer-review: Hart (Publisher) 2021
  • Publication Peer-review: Legal Studies (Journal) 2018
  • Publication Peer-review: Oxford University Press (Publisher) 2018

  • Angela Kelly The meaning of the mesh’ – An examination of fifty years of subordinate legislation in Ireland. Start Date: 29/01/2024
  • Barry Magee Abeyance of Title in the Establishment of the Irish Free State Start Date: 06/09/2022
  • Rachel Williams An investigation into the use of land transactions devised to engage Section 203 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 Start Date: 04/04/2018 End Date: 23/05/2025

  • Law PhD January 09 2017
  • Law LLB (Hons) June 30 2012
  • HEA Fellowship


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