Stephanie Law

I am currently an Associate Professor in Law at Southampton Law School, University of Southampton, having joined the School as a lecturer in 2019. Prior to this, I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. I initially studied law at the University of Glasgow (LL.B., First Class, 2009) and the University of Edinburgh (LL.M., Distinction, 2010) and I completed my Ph.D. at the European University Institute in Florence (2014). Prior to joining the MPI, I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Law at McGill University, Montréal, a position for which I received funding from The Leverhulme Trust. During the course of my doctoral research, I was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and a trainee in the Cabinet of Judge Christopher Vajda at the CJEU.

My research interests are in the areas of EU private and international law, particularly fundamental rights and consumer protection, transnational private and public regulation, legal theory and methodology (with a focus on general principles and comparative law in international courts). I have worked in these fields as a researcher for a number of organisations, national governments and international institutions (including the European Commission), and have taught in Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. I am currently a member of the Academic Research Panel of Blackstone Chambers and of the Open Society Foundation Abusive Lending Working Group.
Address: London