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Dr Neil Graffin

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer in Law
  • The Faculty of Business & Law
  • 快猫视频 Law School
  • The Law School
  • neil.graffin

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Professional biography

Neil is Senior Lecturer in Law and Head of Department聽at 快猫视频 (OU). He is also the Chair of the Sanctuary Advisory Network (SAN) at the OU.听

Neil studied for a PhD in Law in Queen鈥檚 University Belfast, where he also completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Neil is also as an Associate Lecturer with 快猫视频.

Research interests

Neil's聽research interests are within immigration law, asylum law, human rights, and wellbeing.听

聽Neil is currently the principal investigator in a British Academy/ Leverhulme funded project which looks at the legal consciousness of search and rescue volunteers who save the lives of people making dangerous crossings in the Mediterranean.听

Neil is also conducting research on the supporting and guiding role of barrister's clerks in the legal profession. He is also conducting empirical research on perceptions of wellbeing amongst managers and leaders in the legal profession.听

Teaching interests

Neil is an Associate Lecturer on W211 Public law. He has previously taught various courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Neil is currently supervising three PhD students.听

Impact and engagement

Neil is currently working on a project with the UK charity, LawCare, to develop online resources to promote聽psychologically healthy practices within the legal profession.听

External collaborations

Neil is聽academic consultant for the BBC production .听

Neil is co-author of several executive education courses including:

  • 聽which aims to provide an introduction to the law of the sea as it relates to maritime search and rescue.
  • 聽which is produced with LawCare and concerns聽emotional competence and professional resilience and is aimed at upskilling legal professionals to emotionally healthier ways of working.听
  • 聽which is a set of resources produced for The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple to provide careers advice to school age children and their parents to pathways to careers in the Bar.听

Publications

(2025)
Graffin, Neil; Howard, Matthew and Vincett, Joanne
Refugee Survey Quarterly ((Early access))

(2021-12-17)
Graffin, Neil and Jones, Emma
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 72, Article 2(3)

(2020-12-11)
McFaul, Hugh; Hardie, Liz; Ryan, Francine; Lloyd Bright, Keren and Graffin, Neil
International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 27(4) (pp. 6-38)

(2019-11)
Graffin, Neil and Garcia Blesa, Juan J.
International Human Rights Law Review, 8(2) (pp. 245-273)

(2019-03-31)
Graffin, Neil
Refugee Survey Quarterly, 38(1) (pp. 30-54)

(2019)
Graffin, Neil
European Journal of Current Legal Issues, 25, Article 652(2)

(2017)
Graffin, Neil
Human Rights Law Review, 17(4) (pp. 681-699)

(2016-02)
Graffin, Neil
Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 5(1) (pp. 168-182)

(2014)
Graffin, Neil
Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, 20(2)

(2012)
Graffin, Neil
King's Law Journal, 23(1) (pp. 101-108)

(2020-09-24)
Jones, Emma; Graffin, Neil; Samra, Rajvinder and Lucassen, Mathijs
Bristol Shorts Research
ISBN : 9781529210743 | Publisher : Bristol University Press | Published : Bristol

(2024)
Graffin, Neil
In: Newman, Daniel ed. Leading Works on the Legal Profession (pp. 64-76)
ISBN : 9781003253778 | Publisher : Routledge

(2020)
Graffin, Neil
In: Claydon, Lisa; Derry, Caroline and Ajevski, Marjan eds. Law in Motion: 50 years of Legal Change (pp. 52-66)
ISBN : 978-1-4730-3148-7 | Publisher : 快猫视频 Law School

(2018-10-26)
Garcia Blesa, Juan J. and Graffin, Neil
In: August Prinz von Sachsen Gessaphe, Karl; Garcia Blesa, Juan J. and Szuka, Nils eds. Legal Implications of Brexit. Hagener Rechtswissenschaftliche Schriften (2) (pp. 195-214)
ISBN : 978-3-96163-149-0 | Publisher : MV-Wissenschaft | Published : M眉nster

(2023-09)
Charitonos, K.; Gillespie, M.; Dancu, L.; O'Malley, O.; Al-Rashid, A.; Martin, S.; Wilding, C.; Graffin, N.; Mutwarasibo, F. and Babjak, M.
In : BERA 2023 Conference (12-14 Sep 2023, Birmingham, UK)

(2023-11)
Charitonos, Koula; Gillespie, Marie; Graffin, Neil; Wilding, Colin; O'Malley, Olwyn; Al-Rashid, Ahmad; Martin, Shannon; Mutwarasibo, Fid猫le; Babjak, Mahlea and Dancu, Lidia
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