Aurelia Guo

Overview

Aurelia is a critical and interdisciplinary legal researcher and writer and a current 4th-year Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at The City Law School. As of January 2020, she is also an Associate Lecturer at the School of Law, Oxford Brookes University.

Her doctoral thesis, “Punishment, Property and Race in Contemporary American Conceptual Art and Poetry” is supervised by Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (Westminster) and Dr Grietje Baars (City) and was funded by City Law School between the academic years 2017-2020.

Aurelia has taught core subjects on the LLB programme at City since September 2017. In 2020-21, Aurelia has taught Foundations of Criminal Law (LLB1) and will teach Administrative Law and Human Rights at City (LLB1). She will also teach on the elective subject, Crime and Society, at Oxford Brookes. In previous years, Aurelia taught Foundations of Contract Law, Foundations of Tort Law, English Legal System and Legal Method. She has acted as a Personal Tutor to solicitor apprentice students and a moot judge in the City Senior Moot Competition.

In addition to her academic research and writing, she is the author of the forthcoming monograph, World of Interiors (Divided, 2021) and the poetry chapbooks NYT (Gauss PDF, 2018) and 2016 (After Hours Ltd, 2016), part of the collection of the New York Public Library. Prior to joining The City Law School, Aurelia was Editor and Publications Manager at Arcadia Missa gallery and publisher. Aurelia graduated with First Class Honours in English Literature from the University of Sydney, having previously studied law, international relations and literature at the Australian National University.

Research interests: conceptual writing, art/law, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, Criminal Law, Property Law, critical legal studies, socio-legal studies, and critical race theory.

Qualifications

1. PhD, City, University London, United Kingdom
2. Bachelor of Arts (Honours I), University of Sydney, Australia

Employment

1. Associate Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University, Jan 2021 – present
2. Research Assistant, City, University of London, Sep 2018 – present
3. Visiting Lecturer, City, University London, Sep 2017 – present
4. Graduate Teaching Assistant, City, University London, Sep 2017 – present

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin) (can speak and understand spoken).

Title of thesis: Punishment, Property and Race in Contemporary American Conceptual Art and Poetry

Sep 2017

Summary of research

Research interests: conceptual writing, art/law, law and literature, law and psychoanalysis, Criminal Law, Property Law, critical legal studies, socio-legal studies, and critical race theory.

External supervisor

• Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. University of Westminster.