In my role at Sussex Law School, I teach on the Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Law Pathway degrees across the fields of international law, international human rights law, international criminal law, critical legal theory and public law theory (see Teaching Activities).

As an international lawyer, I am committed to integrating critique and socio-legal approaches within my teaching to ensure my students are reading literature that is representative of a diverse and dynamic academic community. I draw on ‘a critical attitude’ or a way of seeing; to critique the governing assumptions about the world, to see whose interests those assumptions serve and whose voices are silenced (Sokhi-Bulley, 2013). This accepts that in law, there is the ‘conscious text’ and the ‘unconscious context’ (Giddens, 2015) and engages students in both ‘higher-level thinking’ and ‘in synthesis incorporating legal principles into the surrounding context’ (Reilly, 2011).

I also am committed to foster a more democratic classroom underpinned by core values of respect and openness and to create a Visual Classroom that integrates lots of visuals about the subject-matter and to create tasks for student to perform in a more workshop style classroom. I have a keen interest in contemporary art, creativity and pursue my own drawing projects outside of my teaching career and therefore, my aim is to create a stimulating classroom environment that aids student learning.