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DrMatthew Evans

Associate Professor in Law (Law)

School of Law, Politics and Sociology

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

Matthew Evans contributes disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching to foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate modules in and beyond the School of Law, Politics and Sociology. He contributes to both introductory and advanced courses, and provides research supervision within his specialisms.


Current teaching

Semester 1 (Autumn) 2025/26
Order and Disorder: Understanding Law, Politics and Sociology (Foundation)
Public Law (Undergraduate)
Human Rights 1: International and Regional Frameworks (Undergraduate)
International Human Rights Law (Postgraduate)

Semester 2 (Spring/Summer) 2025/26
Human Rights 2: Critical Perspectives (Undergraduate; Convenor)

Human Rights Law Clinic (Postgraduate) 
Socioeconomic Rights: Economic Violence, Social Justice and Human Rights Law (Postgraduate; Convenor)


Doctoral supervision
Prospective research students should get in touch

Current PhD students
Julia Winstone (co-supervised with Jo Moran-Ellis)
Abigail Richards (secondary supervisor; lead supervsior: Lyndsay McLean)

Marochka Minkeng (co-supervised with Ida Danewid and Louiza Odysseos)

Completed PhD students
Ihab Maharmeh (co-supervised with Darcy Leigh; completed 2026)

Benjamin Thorne (lead supervisor; secondary supervisors: Tarik Kochi and Tom Frost; completed 2020)
Zeynep Ardic (co-supervised with Michael Kearney; completed 2019)