Our Staff
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Michael Davies
Senior Lecturer in Law, Course Leader LPC
Solicitor (non-practising). Admitted to the role in 1985. Joined a High Street as Articled clerk and rose to level of Senior Partner. Criminal Defence Advocate for over 20 years practising in local Magistrates and Crown Courts.
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Dr Ilaria Di Gioia
Senior Lecturer in American Law and Associate Director of the Centre for American Legal Studies (CALS)
Dr. Ilaria Di Gioia is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Director of the Centre for American Legal Studies at Birmingham City University, UK.
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Fiona Farrell
Senior Associate Solicitor and Senior Lecturer
Fiona was named Birmingham Law Society's Solicitor of the Year 2023, a Legal 500 and Chambers rated tier 1 lawyer named Associate to Watch in 2020, 21, 22 and Rising Star in 2022 and 2023. She is a commercial senior family solicitor, with 17 years post qualification experience, and is a Senior Lecturer and Solicitor within...
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Rhiannon Frost
Senior Lecturer in Law
Before working at BCU, Rhiannon Frost worked at Staffordshire University for 3 years teaching on a range of different courses and modules. She is currently a PhD student at Keele University.
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Jessica Gallagher
Lecturer
Jessica Gallagher is a Lecturer in Law and joined BCU in 2022. She is currently studying for her PhD in Law which researches Self-Harm and Suicide in Adult Male prisoners. Her areas of research interest include prison conditions, the Criminal Justice system, sentencing criminal law and the relationship between politics and the...
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Samantha Gargaro
Director of BCU Law Clinic, Associate Professor
Samantha has worked as a Solicitor in private practice since qualifying in 1991, specialising in Personal Injury cases. Her main area of work was in Employers' Liability. The majority of her career was spent with national Personal Injury firm Russell Jones and Walker which became Slater and Gordon in 2012. In 2018, Samantha...
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Jason Georgiou
Senior Lecturer
Jason's career has always been within the Justice System. Following completion of the Legal Practice Course at Birmingham City University, Jason went to work for the Legal Aid Agency managing a team assessing civil legal aid applications.
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Keith Gompertz
Senior Lecturer in Law
Keith Gompertz's career has encompassed 25 years in practice as a Solicitor, followed by 25 years lecturing law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level both in England and Germany.
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Lauren Haddock-Robbins
Course Leader / Senior Lecturer
Lauren Haddock-Robbins joined Birmingham City University in 2015.
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Dr Monica Ingber
Senior Lecturer in Law
Dr Monica Ingber is a senior lecturer in law. She completed her PhD in political science and international relations at Keele University in 2013. Her PhD monograph, ‘The Politics of Conflict: Transubstantiatory Violence in Iraq,’ was nominated for the C.B. Macpherson Book Prize in 2016. Dr Ingber has a qualifying law degree...