ELSS School of Law : Meet our Staff

Meet our Staff

Masood Ahmed
Senior Lecturer - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Masood is a senior lecturer in law at Birmingham City University and is a qualified solicitor. He read law at Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) and obtained his Diploma in Legal Practice from Cardiff University. He qualified as a solicitor at a large international law firm in London and went on to work as a commercial litigator and commercial lawyer for international law firms both in...

Martin Burnett
Senior Lecturer in Law - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Martin Burnett is a senior lecturer in the School of Law and also the LPC Admissions tutor. He is currently teaching on the LLB, LLM International Human Rights, and Legal Practice Course (LPC). Prior to joining the University, Martin practised as a solicitor for over 20 years in various fields including child protection/adoption, employment law, public law and litigation, regulatory...

Jonathan Cooper
Programme Director GDL; Senior Lecturer in Law - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Jonathan Cooper is a senior lecturer and GDL Programme Director for the School of Law. He has been with the University since 2007 and qualified as a solicitor specialising in landlord and tenant law and property litigation in 2005. Jonathan is currently teaching: Legal Practice Course (Property Law & Practice, Probate & Legal Drafting) Graduate Diploma in Law (Land...

Sarah Cooper
Year 2 LLB Tutor; American Legal Practice Coordinator - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Sarah is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Director of the Centre for American Legal Studies. She also coordinates the American Legal Practice and American Criminal Procedure modules. She is a barrister and Lord Denning Scholar of the Bar of England and Wales. She has been Legal Researcher for LexisNexis Butterworth’s and the...

Dr Haydn Davies
Director of Research - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Haydn Davies is Director of Research and a Senior Academic within the School. He has been with Birmingham City University since 2000, and began his research career in 1986 working at the University of Cambridge. Notable qualifications include PhD, LLB and BSc. Haydn is also an active member of the United Kingdom Environmental Law Association. Current professional areas of activity include: ...

Paul Denham
Senior Lecturer in Law - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
A former lecturer in further education, Paul has taught at Birmingham City University School of Law for the past 16 years.

Safina Din
Senior Lecturer; Year 3 LLB Tutor - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Safina Din is a Senior Lecturer in Law who teaches Skills, Criminal Law, Human Rights Law and Asylum and Immigration on the LLB programme. She also teaches Legal Processes with Criminal Law on the BA Criminal Investigations Programme and Refugees and the Law on the LLM IHR programme. In addition she is involved with interviewing and advising on the Legal Practice Course. ...

Emma Flint
Senior Lecturer; Student Careers Tutor and Student Legal Society Coordinator - Faculty of Education, Law & Social Sciences
Emma Flint is a Senior Lecturer & Course Director for LLM Corporate and Business Law. She has been a qualified solicitor since 1999, and previously worked for high profile law firms such as Wragge & Co and Baker & McKenzie. She currently teaches: LLB – Skills, Tort and Company Law Joint Degree – Company Law Emma's main areas of interest are...