Staff Profiles

Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies

Dr Raymond Arthur
Reader in Law
BA (Law & European Studies), LLM, PhD
Raymond Arthur graduated with a BA (Hons) in Law & European Studies and an LLM degree from the University of Limerick, Ireland. Dr Raymond Arthur completed his PhD on family life and youth offending... more>>

Professor Chris Ashford
Professor of Law and Society
Chris joined Northumbria School of Law in May 2013 as Professor of Law and Society. He is Deputy Editor and Editor-Designate of The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education (published by... more>>

Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar
Reader in Comparative and International Criminal Law & Islamic Law
Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar joined Northumbria School of Law as a Reader in comparative and international criminal law in July 2013. He previously held a position as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate... more>>

Professor Chrisje Brants
Professor
LLM and doctorate in law and social sciences
Professor Chrisje Brants was born in the UK, but partly educated in the Netherlands. She studied journalism in Utrecht, worked as a journalist and then, deciding she knew everything about nothing and nothing... more>>

Professor Gary Edmond
Professor of Law / Research Professor
BA (Hons)(Medal) Wollongong, LLB (Hons) Sydney, PhD Cambridge
Gary Edmond is a law professor in the School of Law at Northumbria and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Law at the University of New South Wales where he directs the Program in... more>>

Professor Mark James
Professor of Laws
LLB (Hons), PGCE (FAHE), PhD, FHEA
Professor Mark James joined the School of Law in September 2013.  He began his academic career at Anglia Polytechnic University on a research studentship examining the scope of the consent given by participants... more>>

Dr Carole McCartney
Reader in Law
BA (Hons), MA (Crim), PhD
Dr Carole McCartney is a Reader in the School of Law, Northumbria University. Previously senior lecturer in criminal law and criminal justice at the University of Leeds, and Bond University, Queensland... more>>

Professor Alan Reed
Associate Dean
Professor Alan Reed graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge University with a First Class Honours Degree in Law, and attained the highest subject grades in the tripos examinations as top overall law student... more>>

Nicola Wake
Senior Lecturer
FHEA, PGCert TLHE, G.PLL, LLB (Hons)
Nicola is Course Director for year one of the MLaw (Exempting) Programme. She teaches Trusts and Criminal Law, Litigation and Evidence across the Law School's MLaw (Exempting), LL.B (Part-Time) and Law... more>>

Professor Tim Wilson
Professor of Criminal Justice Policy
Tim Wilson joined the School of Law in September 2012. His academic interests and funded research include the governance of forensic bioinformation, the role and organisation of forensic science and medicine... more>>