Dr Amanda Spalding
- Position: Lecturer in Law
- Areas of expertise: Immigration Law; Human Rights Law; Criminal Law; EU Law; Family Law
- Email: A.Spalding@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: LinkedIn
Profile
I joined the University of Leeds in July 2023, having previously held academic positions at the University of Sheffield, Canterbury Christ Church University and SOAS. I hold a PhD and an LLM in European Law from King’s College London and an LLB (Hons) from The Robert Gordon University. I am currently the Deputy Editor for the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law and a founding member of the Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum, where I sit on the steering committee.
Research interests
My research focuses on the intersection of immigration and human rights law, with a particular focus on criminalisation and punishment. My work often brings this together with European (EU and ECHR) law to explore the relationship between domestic and European legal frameworks and the implications of this for the rights of migrants. I am especially interested in the ways in which legal responses to migration can produce distinctive forms of rights protection and legal exceptionalism.
These themes are developed in my monograph The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights: Moving Beyond Criminalisation. Reviewers have described it as a potential “third pillar” of the contemporary literature on the European Court of Human Rights' treatment of migrants and a “precious addition to research at the intersection of human rights and criminal law” that “bring[s] legal scholarship into conversation with criminological and sociological research.”
My research has been published in the Modern Law Review, Legal Studies, Public Law, the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, the European Journal of Migration and Law and The Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.
Qualifications
- PhD in Law (King's College London)
- LLM (King's College London)
- LLB (Hons) (The Robert Gordon University)
Professional memberships
- Society of Legal Scholars
Student education
I currently teach on the following modules: EU Law, International Human Rights Law, Contemporary Issues of Human Rights Law, Inequalities, Law and Justice and Gender and the Law. I have significant prior teaching experience of Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Family Law as well.
Research groups and institutes
- Centre for Law and Social Justice