Governance Committee

Under the LHA Constitution, the Governance Committee (GC) is responsible for overseeing and administering the conduct and activites of the LHA in line with the formal aims and purposes of the Association.

Under Art 3 of the  LHA Constituion, the Association’s aims and purposes are:

1. 1. to foster and support the development of cultural understandings of law and humanities-inflected legal scholarship
   2. to nurture and maintain an open community of scholars working in these areas
   3. to facilitate personal, professional, intellectual, and scholarly development

General Member

Ceylan Begüm Yildiz (she/her) is Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich.

General Member

Henrique Carvalho (he/him) is Professor of Law and co-Director of the Centre for Critical Legal Studies at the University of Warwick. His interests include criminalisation and punishment, justice, and critical social, political, and cultural theory.

General Member

Julia Chryssostalis (she/her) is Principal Lecturer at Westminster Law School.

Finance Officer

Stephen Connelly (he/him) is Professor of the Philosophy and History of Legal Systems at the University of Warwick. His interests include process theories, genealogies of law, and continental philosophy. He is the author of monographs on the legal philosophies of Spinoza and Leibniz.

EDI Officer

Katherine Ebury (she/they) is Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield, and is a literary historian working within the legal humanities. She has broad interests in modernist studies, crime writing, gender and sexuality, equity and social justice and critical theory. They are a visiting scholar at LHub for the academic year 25-26.

Web Editor (content)

Hayley Gibson (she/her) is Lecturer in Law at the Open University Law School. She has research interests in legal theory, law and literature, and private law. Her current research projects encompass philosophical archaeology and jurisprudence. She serves on the editorial boards of feminists@law and criticallegalthinking.

LHA Chair and Web Editor (technical)

Thomas Giddens (he/him) is Chair of Jurisprudence at Dundee Law School. He is a critical and cultural legal scholar, with particular interests in visuality, form, and legal pedagogy. He loves sea monsters.

Membership Officer

Patrick Hanafin (he/him) is Professor of Law at Birkbeck Law School where he also co-directs the School’s Centre for Law and the Humanities. He is currently working on a book-length project entitled Maurice Blanchot and the Refusal of Law. He is Honorary Professor in the Department of Private Law at the University of Capetown.

General Member

Robert Herian (he/him) is Associate Professor at University of Exeter Law School, researching and teaching at intersections of law, literature, technology, data, and critical theory.

EDI Officer

Revital Madar (she/her) is an interdisciplinary political theorist and socio-legal scholar. Her research interests span from sovereignty, legitimate violence, and conflict-related sexual violence in liberal democracies. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the EUI.

LHA Secretary

Thanos Zartaloudis (he/him) is Reader in Legal History and Theory at Kent Law School. He has a background in philosophy; civil and common law; and working with refugees, the homeless and young people in the arts. He has taught Theory of Architecture at the Architectural Association and supervises doctoral students in the discipline. At Kent he is the Co-Director of Kent’s Interdisciplinary Centre in Spatial Studies and director the Research Group in Political Theology, Philosophy and law. With Anton Schütz, he is head editor of the EUP book series, Encounters in law and philosophy.