The School of Law welcomes new staff members!
Five new starters have joined the School of Law, and we are delighted to introduce Drs Soibi Bob-Manuel, Anush Ganesh, Nora Han, Sorcha Mc Cormack, and Raghavi Viswanath.
Dr Soibi Bob-Manuel
Dr Soibi Bob-Manuel is a legal scholar and practitioner specialising in energy and environmental law, with a particular focus on the intersection of climate change, intellectual property, and sustainable development. She holds an LLM in Oil and Gas Law (with Distinction) from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, and holds a legal practitioner’s certificate for the Nigerian Bar. Her extensive legal practice in Nigeria included corporate commercial law, oil and gas law, intellectual property, energy and natural resources, dispute resolution, and regulatory compliance.
Soibi completed her PhD in 2024, which examined the legal application of climate technologies, examining how climate change law and public goods theory intersect with intellectual property rights. Her research advances understanding of regulatory frameworks that support sustainable energy transitions and equitable access to innovation in developing countries.
Prior to joining Leeds, Soibi was as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham, where she taught private law, as well as contributing to the research environment in energy and environmental law, climate change law, and sustainable development.
In Leeds, Soibi is joining Leeds as a lecturer in Environmental Law. She is committed to fostering an engaging learning environment, and looking forward to collaborating with colleagues to enhance the student experience.
Dr Anush Ganesh
Dr Anush Ganesh joins the School of Law as a Lecturer in Law, specialising in competition law, abuse of dominance, and comparative digital markets regulation across the EU, UK, Germany, and India. He completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2023 on pricing practices in digital markets and previously held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on the SCiDA (Shaping Competition in the Digital Age) Project at the University of Exeter, a joint AHRC/DFG initiative with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, where he remains an external affiliate. He also previously held a lecturing role at St Mary's University, Twickenham, where he was Course Lead for the LLM in International Business Law.
He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Competition Journal, and his work has appeared in that journal alongside Concurrences, ECLR, CoRe, YARS, the Indian Law Review, Statute Law Review, Gaming Law Review, Arbitration International, the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement, the Journal of Law and Courts, and the Australian Journal of Asian Law.
He was recently awarded the Concurrences Readers' Choice Award 2026 in the Unilateral Conduct category for his article on price personalisation, following back-to-back Concurrences Award nominations. He also contributes to consultation responses initiated by the CMA and the European Commission on digital markets regulation. This year he has participated in various conferences including ASCOLA London 2026, Antwerp 2026, CLaSF Lisbon 2026, and IE Madrid 2026, and was a co-organiser of the SCiDA conference 2026.
Outside academia, Anush volunteers at the Sivananda Yoga Center London, where he teaches Hatha Yoga voluntarily, and spends his free time bouldering, climbing, cycling, and generally staying outdoors. He is looking forward to becoming part of the vibrant research community at the School of Law and to building new collaborations across the University's competition and regulatory law scholarship.
Dr Nora Han
Dr Nora Han has joined the School as a Lecturer in Law. Prior to joining Leeds, she was a Senior Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Trent University and a graduate tutor at the University of Nottingham.
Nora holds a PhD in Law from the University of Nottingham, where she examined the EU's promotion of economic and social rights through its trade agreements. She has published an article in the peer-reviewed journal, European Foreign Affair Review, addressing the gaps in the EU's promotion of labour rights during the EU-Korea labour dispute of 2019-2021.
Nora holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and she is committed to promoting an inclusive, engaging and supportive learning environment in legal education. Her current work explores the experiences of neurodivergent students in legal education and alternative forms of participation that could enhance inclusivity.
Before joining academia, Nora represented the international NGO, Geneva for Human Rights, at the UN Human Rights Council.
Outside work, she enjoys playing the piano, hot chocolate with marshmallows, and reading philosophical fiction.
Dr Sorcha Mc Cormack
Dr Sorcha Mc Cormack joins from Leeds Beckett University where she was a senior lecturer. She was also called to the Bar of Ireland in 2013. She had previously worked as a Research Assistant at the School of law where she led pro bono research projects with Professor Luke Clements. These projects explored disabled children and their families' statutory rights. She presented their findings to a Select Committee at parliament and worked closely with the Secretary of State for Education to review the statutory guidance for school transport.
In 2020 she completed her PhD at Durham University supervised by Professor Clare McGlynn. Her thesis examined the hierarchal response to sexual assault complainants in England & Wales and suggested a new offence decentring autonomy framed through a vulnerability theory lens. Her primary research interests include feminist legal theory and sexual offences. Her latest book Vulnerability and Sexual Assault the law: the inadequacy of the autonomy- based approach in the Contemporary issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure Series with Routledge has just been published.
She is a board member of LEX Law, Gender & Sexuality Research Network, and an editor for Gender & Justice. She publishes widely on law reform and sexual offences and collaborates closely with Professor Jonathan Herring of Oxford University.
She is looking forward to being involved in the Feminist Research Into Violence & Abuse (FRIVA) Network, the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies and the Centre for Law and Social Justice. She will be teaching on Criminal law, Criminal Evidence and Gender & the Law.
Dr Raghavi Viswanath
Dr Raghavi Viswanath joins the School of Law as a Lecturer, teaching land law, law and society, and international human rights law. Her areas of interest include international human rights law (particularly socio-economic and cultural rights), rights of nomads, international criminal justice, abolition, epistemic injustice, ethnographic research, and sensory approaches to legal meaning-making.
She was previously a postdoctoral researcher and teaching fellow at SOAS University of London, and a Law and Humanities Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. She holds degrees in international law and public policy from Leiden Law School, the University of Oxford, and the National Law Institute University in Bhopal, and earned her PhD in International Law from the European University Institute in Florence. Her thesis, awarded the 2025 Antonio Cassese Prize for Best International Law Thesis, sought to reanimate cultural rights in international law through Global South epistemologies, anchored on long collaborative fieldwork with the Irulars, a semi-nomadic community in southern India. Her postdoctoral work at SOAS, supported by the Leverhulme Trust's Social Life of Law project, turned to nomadic pastoralists in western India, examining their changing relationships with land and claims-making in authoritarian contexts.
She has been engaged in policy work on cultural rights at the international level, as a consultant for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, an expert member of the ICOMOS Rights Based Approaches Working Group, and an advisor to cultural ministries in India and Italy.
At Leeds, she will continue work on her monograph on nomadic epistemologies and how nomads open up new ways of thinking critically about rights in international law.
Raghavi also brings with her a newly built abolition project, set up with artists, students, researchers, and community leaders from India, South Africa, and Kenya. The collective examines international law's carceralities across themes including climate justice, heritage law, and race, and builds pedagogical resources that forefront Global Majority reimaginings of international law. She is looking forward to giving the collective a new home in Leeds, and to joining the friendly and vibrant community of staff and students at the School of Law.
We look forward to welcoming and working with our new colleagues as we pursue our mission to provide outstanding legal education and conduct world-leading, impactful research.
