Pro-Vice-Chancellors
Professor Jane Wright LLB LLM
Lond, Solicitor
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Standards)
Faculty of Humanities and Comparative Studies
Profile
At a glance...
- Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic
Standards), University of Essex, 2011
- Head of the School of Law 2009 to 2011
- Director of the Human Rights Centre
2005 to 2006
- Dean of the School of Law 2001 to 2004
- Promoted to a personal chair in the
School of Law in 2002
- Appointed to a Lectureship at University
of Essex in 1992
- Admitted as a Solicitor in 1982
Biography:
Professor Jane Wright graduated from Queen Mary, University of London in
1979 and qualified as a Solicitor in 1982, completing her training with the
internationally renowned City firm, Slaughter & May. She returned to
academic work at Queen Mary in 1989, completing her LLM in 1991.
She was
appointed to a lectureship in the School of Law in 1992 and promoted to a
Senior Lectureship in 1999. In 1999 she was promoted to a personal chair.
Professor Wright's research interests include Tort Law and Human Rights Law
(both international and domestic), in which she has published widely. She is
currently working on a second edition of her monograph, Tort Law & Human
Rights (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2001) and recent papers include
'Retribution but No Recompense : A Critique of the Torturer's Immunity from
Civil Suit', [2010] Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 143-173 and
'Interpreting Section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 – towards an indigeneous jurisprudence of human rights', [2009] Public Law 595-616.
More information
Professor
Wright's departmental web page