Contact details
Address
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom
About
Overview
Hannah Phillips LLB(Hons), LLM-R, PhD, SFHEA joined The City Law School as a Lecturer in Law in September 2021 after previously working as a Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. Her primary research and teaching interests lie in land law, the law of equity and trusts and theories of property.
Hannah’s broader research interests lie in the intersections between law and the humanities and questions surrounding the writing of critical legal histories. She has a keen interest in the developments that have been made within philosophical hermeneutics and historiography more generally, with the work of Reinhart Koselleck and Hans-Georg Gadamer being of particular interest. In her ESRC funded doctoral research, Hannah sought to trace the ongoing presence of the grand narrative form within law’s engagements with history and its writing, examining the ways in which law becomes implicated in the formation (and subsequent manipulation) of notions of national identity, tradition and legitimacy. In doing so she contrasted the forms of historiography that are utilised during such processes against forms of historiography that adopt a more flexible sense of temporality.
Hannah is the module leader for GE LLB Land Law and LLB Foundations of Trusts.
Qualifications
- PhD in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom, Sep 2011 – Sep 2017
- LLM by Research, Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom, Sep 2010 – Jan 2014
- LLB (Hons), Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom, Sep 2007 – Jun 2010
Employment
- Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, Sep 2021 – present
- Lecturer in Law, University of Kent, Sep 2017 – Aug 2021
- Subject Tutor, University of Kent, Jan – Aug 2017
- Guest Teacher, London School of Economics and Political Science, Jan – Jun 2017
- Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent, Jan 2011 – Aug 2017
Memberships of professional organisations
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, Jul 2022 – present
Professional activities
Events/conferences (4)
- TILT Annual Learning and Teaching Conference. (Conference) Nottingham Trent via MSTeams (2021). Panel Member.
Paper: Laying the foundations for success in a disrupted environment: Towards integrating skills development in the learning experience of first year law students
Co-authors: Hannah Phillips, Emek Delibas and Marie Kerin - Rich Law, Poor Law. (Conference) Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, UK (2019). Panel Member.
Paper: Does the house always win? Buying in, selling on and being left without
Author: Hannah Phillips - Writing Law, Writing History. (Workshop) University of Kent, UK (2015). Panel Member.
Paper: Unfreezing History: Re-visiting the Question of Context in the Reading of Law
Author: Hannah Phillips - Association of the Study of Law, Cultre and the Humanities. (Conference) University of Virginia, USA (2014). Panel Member.
Paper: Historiography as Resistance
Author: Hannah Phillips