Dr Sarah Trotter

Sarah is an Assistant Professor of Law. Her research focuses on the way in which the human condition is imagined in European human rights law and the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves. Her recent work in this context concerns questions of what it might mean to live with a sense of a ‘right to hope’; the construction of notions of truth and reality in family law; and the role of ideas about absence, loss, and lack in the construction of the category of personal identity in European human rights law.

Sarah convenes and teaches the LL221 Family Law course and co-convenes and teaches the LL211 Law, Poverty and Access to Justice course and the LL245 Feminist Legal Theory course. She is an Academic Fellow of the Middle Temple, a member of the Modern Law Review’s Editorial Committee, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the International Law Book Facility’s Operating Committee. She wrote her PhD thesis (‘On coming to terms: How European human rights law imagines the human condition’) at LSE, where she also taught family law and EU law on the LLB programme and human rights on the Summer School programme. She holds an LLB from LSE (including an Erasmus year at Sciences Po, Paris) and an LLM from the University of Cambridge.

Research Interests

Sarah's research is in the fields of European human rights law, family law, and socio-legal studies. The focus of much of her work is on the way in which the human condition is imagined in European human rights law and the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves.

Publications

Teaching

LL209: Law, Society and Morality: Contemporary Controversies in the Courts (summer school course)

LL211 Law, Poverty and Access to Justice

LL221 Family Law

LL245 Feminist Legal Theory