Illan rua Wall joined the Law school as a Lecturer in 2024. Previously he was Professor of Law at the Warwick Law School, where heCo-Directed the Centre for Critical Legal Studies. He holds an Honorary Professorial Fellowship from the University of Warwick.

Illan works on critical legal theory, particularly using legal geography, affect studies and post-structural theory. He applies these insights to questions of rights, protest, strikes, revolt, policing and security. He has published on key debates around sovereignty, constituent power, and legal affect. He is author of Law and Disorder (Routledge 2021), Human Rights and Constituent Power (Routledge 2012) and editor of The Critical Legal Pocketbook (2021) and New Critical Legal Thinking (Routledge 2012). He has published in leading cultural studies, socio-legal and critical legal journals. Illan is also one of the founding editors of the blog criticallegalthinking.com, and a managing director of the open access publisher Counterpress. 

He has supervised and examined PhDs on law and contested development, anarchist constitutionalism, hate speech, protest, and policing among other topics. And welcomes proposals in any areas of expertise, particularly applying critical, feminist, post-structural and political economy lenses.

He currently teaches Land Law, Equity and Trusts and the LLM module Policing, Security, Rights