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Illan Wall

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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6095-7571

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Biography

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

Research Interests

Illan works on critical legal theory, particularly through 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 the author of Law and Disorder (Routledge, 2021) and 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.

Teaching Interests

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

Education/Academic qualification

PhD

External positions

Honorary Professorial Fellow

1 Jan 2024 → 30 Dec 2027

Full Professor, University of Warwick

1 Sept 2022 → 31 Dec 2023

Reader, University of Warwick

1 Sept 2019 → 1 Sept 2022

Associate Professor, University of Warwick

1 Sept 2012 → 1 Sept 2019

Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University

1 Sept 2010

Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University

1 Sept 2008 → 1 Sept 2010

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education
  3. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  6. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land
  7. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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