Professor Lindsay Moir

Professor Lindsay Moir holds the HK Bevan Chair and is Professor of International Law. He is the longest-serving member of Law School staff, having joined the Law School as a Lecturer in 1997 after obtaining degrees from the University of Edinburgh (LLB) and the University of Cambridge (LLM, PhD).

Professor Moir was a Senior Lecturer from 2003-2005, and has been Professor of International Law since 2005. He served as Head of the Law School in 2003, and again from 2009-2012. Since then, he has held a series of leadership roles including Research Director, Postgraduate Research Director, Director of Student Experience and Admissions Director.

Professor Moir was a founding member and Deputy Director of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law, and has been responsible for the Law School's long-running and prestigious Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture series since 2004. He has been awarded research funding from the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation, has provided legal advice to foreign governments, and held a Visiting Fellowship at the International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is currently Research Director for the Law School.