I am honoured to become a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Legal scholarship has much to contribute to social sciences scholarship, and I look forward to supporting the work of the Academy
Professor Paul James Cardwell, Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Education
01 April 2025
Professor Paul James Cardwell and Professor Emilie Cloatre elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences
Two academics from The Dickson Poon School of Law have been elected to the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.
The Academy of Social Sciences is the national academy of academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social sciences. All Academy Fellows are elected for their excellence in their fields and their significant contributions to social science for public benefit.
Professor Paul James Cardwell is a Professor of Law and the Vice Dean for Education at The Dickson Poon School of Law. His main research area is EU external relations, with a twin focus on migration and sanctions. He has published widely in some of the leading journals in EU law and European Studies, and has produced several edited collections. His next monograph, on the Governance of Migration in the EU, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Paul is the editor of JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, the leading academic journal in interdisciplinary European studies. He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) with expertise in Erasmus+ and Study Abroad. He is a panel member for the Judicial Appointments Commission, and was Treasurer of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) (2010-2016). His expertise has led to contributing written evidence and appearing before the UK, Scottish and Canadian Parliaments on EU law and policy.
Professor Emilie Cloatre is a socio-legal scholar whose main research interests lie in the intersection between law and medicine. A key strand of her scholarship explores how law and health knowledges shape each other, and in questioning the impact of law in furthering, perpetuating or, potentially, challenging health inequalities.
Professor Cloatre’s work has also influenced concepts and methods to think about how law operates in everyday society, introducing ideas from Actor-Network Theory and materiality-oriented theories to UK socio-legal studies, including through her first monograph (Pills for the Poorest, Palgrave MacMillan 2013, winner of the SLSA Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize 2014). Her work has been published in leading journals in socio-legal studies; medical law; medical sociology and Science and Technology Studies.
From 1 May 2025, Professor Cloatre will be leading a new Wellcome Discovery Award entitled: “Between Deception and Dissent: regulating unproven, disproven and misleading health related claims”. This collaborative project will explore how, and to what effects, contemporary states regulate controversial health-claims, through interdisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional research in Europe (France, Greece, Ireland and the UK), West Africa (Ghana and Senegal) and North America (Mexico and Canada).
It is an honour to become a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Much of my work has sought to enhance our understanding of law, and of its relation to health and medicine, through social sciences concepts and methods applied to different legal issues. I look forward to continuing such cross-disciplinary conversations, and fine-tuning our collective knowledge of the impact and meaning of law in society.
Professor Emilie Cloatre, Professor of Medical Law
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