Jane Humphries published two refereed articles and edited and introduced two special issues of journals. Three book chapters are in press. Research using working women’s autobiographies based on her ESRC funded Memories of Industriousness: The Industrial Revolution and the Household Economy is ongoing. New projects include: women’s wages in the very long run (with Jacob Weisdorf); and trends in consumption from records of burglary and housebreaking (with Sara Horrell). She is an editor, with Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, of a new edition of the Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (forthcoming). She is the Chair of the History Faculty Board.

Professor Hood specialized in the study of executive government, regulation, and public-sector reform.

I work mainly on English and German private law with a strong comparative and historical focus. This includes especially the law of contract, tort law, the law of trusts, property law, and the law of succession, and it extends to adjoining areas of commercial and company law. I also have an interest in aspects of tax law and in the principles governing the conflict of laws.

I am an international lawyer, dealing primarily with the legal aspects of refugee flows, migration, and forced displacement. I am also involved with related issues, including statelessness, deprivation of citizenship, ‘counter-terrorism’, and the challenges to human rights raised by the widespread emphasis globally on ‘securitisation’, and more recently as a consequence of COVID-19. In addition, I remain particularly interested in the activities of international and regional organisations, both in contributing to the resolution of humanitarian problems and as potentially ‘representative’ forums. I practised as a Barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London, from 2002-2018, and from July 2017–December 2021, I was Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice and the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the University of New South Wales; I have been an Honorary Professor since January 2022. In February 2020, I was awarded the Stefan A. Riesenfeld Memorial Award at Berkeley Law for my contributions to international law and international refugee law, and in September 2021, Oxford University Press published the fourth edition of The Refugee in International Law (with Professor Jane McAdam and Emma Dunlop).

External homepages:

http://www.kaldorcentre.unsw.edu.au/