Dr Jess Randall

Dr Jess Randall is a non-binary socio-legal academic with an interest in transgender and non-binary people’s rights and the legal recognition afforded to them (or not). Throughout their work they advocate for LGBT inclusion and law reform/removal and often contribute to Government Consultations including on the Gender Recognition Act and the Scotland (Hate Crime) Act.

Jess began working at BCU in August 2025 and has been involved in the teaching of Equity and Trusts, Family Law, Advanced Skills, Contract Law and Consumer and Agency Law. They have taught across the undergraduate degree and the master’s program. Jess works to ensure all students are active participants in their learning by creating inclusive and supportive learning environments.

They also co-lead the Research and Enterprise Seminar Series for the Law School with Dr Valentino Cattelan and have established the Identity and Belonging Research Cluster with Dr Kay Dunn. Dr Randall also co-created the Social Justice Summer School with colleagues at BCU and Pace University in New York. In the summer school’s first iteration it took 10 students from the School of Law, Criminology and Sociology to New York for a 9-day program focusing on how the law promotes and withholds social justice in a UK and US context whilst also experiencing Bronx Criminal Court, the UN, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.

Prior to working at BCU they have completed a PhD at the University of Liverpool titled ‘Until Death: Beyond Binaries and Permanence in the Gender Recognition Act’. Jess passed their viva with no corrections in August 2025. Along side their PhD Jess was teaching a range of subjects including International Labour Law, Gender Sex and Violence, International Financial Crime, Employment Law, Contract Law and Equity and Trusts.