Sarah joined LSE Law School as an Assistant Professor in September 2018. Her research is mostly about how the human condition is imagined in European human rights law, and she is currently writing a book about this. She is particularly interested in the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves. Her most recent work in this context concerns the way in which relationships were legally constructed and portrayed in the context of the COVID-19 concept of the ‘support bubble’; the meaning of the ‘right to hope’ in European human rights law; the construction of notions of truth and reality in family law (particularly in contexts in which the meaning of knowing comes into question); and the role of ideas about absence, loss, and lack in the context of the construction of the category of personal identity in European human rights law. She convenes and teaches the LL221 Family Law course (which is about the legal construction and regulation of family life) and co-convenes and teaches the LL211 Law, Poverty and Access to Justice course (which is about the relationships between law, poverty, and inequality). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a member of the International Law Book Facility’s Operating Committee, and a member of the Modern Law Review’s Editorial Committee.

Sarah wrote her PhD thesis (‘On coming to terms: How European human rights law imagines the human condition’) at the LSE, where she also taught family law and EU law on the LLB programme and human rights on the Summer School programme. She did her LLM at the University of Cambridge and her LLB at the LSE (including an Erasmus year at Sciences Po, Paris).

Sarah is the Adviser to Women Students at the LSE, and she is available to talk to any women students who want or need to talk about anything, and to offer advice and support on issues of concern or personal difficulties. (You can write to me directly or contact me through the student support pages.) She is also (as of February 2024) Chair of the Student Sports and Activities Committee and is available to be contacted in that capacity too (e.g., if you are a student with any questions or issues in relation to sports and other activities at the LSE).

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk