Masters of the Bench

Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; formerly Professor of Law at SOAS University of London and Reader in Law at University College London. Diamond is a graduate of the University of Oxford (Brasenose College) and has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. She has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, New York; Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School; and Genest Global Faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has been the recipient of a US-EU Fulbright Research Award; and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. Diamond publishes on labour/employment law; regional integration (the European Union and the African Union); law and development; economic sociology of law; human rights and equality. She is on the Editorial Board of Feminist Legal Studies, and the Executive Committee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association.