Joanne Conaghan
{{Short description|British legal scholar}}
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Joanne A. F. Conaghan, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FBA|FAcSS}} is an Irish legal scholar based in the UK, specialising in the intersection between gender and the law and in feminist legal studies.
Life
Since 2013, she has been Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. She previously taught at the University of Kent, the University of Exeter and the University of California, San Diego.{{cite web |title=Joanne A F Conaghan |url=https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/joanne-a-f-conaghan |website=University of Bristol |access-date=25 August 2021 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Professor Joanne Conaghan FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/professor-joanne-conaghan-fba/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=25 August 2021 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Professor Joanne Conaghan FAcSS |url=https://www.acss.org.uk/fellow/professor-joanne-conaghan-facss/ |website=Academy of Social Sciences |access-date=25 August 2021}} She was head of the University of Kent Law School from 2008 to 2011 and head of the University of Bristol Law School from 2014 to 2018.
In 2021, Conaghan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web |title=The British Academy elects 84 new Fellows recognising outstanding achievement in the humanities and social sciences |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-british-academy-elects-84-new-fellows-recognising-outstanding-achievement-in-the-humanities-and-social-sciences/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=24 July 2021 |language=en |date=23 July 2021}} She is chair of the Law Sub-Panel for REF 2021, the United Kingdom's research excellence assessment exercise.
Selected works
- {{cite book |last1=Conaghan |first1=Joanne |last2=Mansell |first2=Wade |title=The wrongs of tort |date=1999 |publisher=Pluto Press |location=London |isbn=978-0745312934 |edition=2nd}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Cane |editor1-first=Peter |editor2-last=Conaghan |editor2-first=Joanne |title=The new Oxford companion to law |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199290543}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Conaghan |editor1-first=Joanne |title=Feminist legal studies |date=2009 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-0415447485}}
- {{cite book |last1=Conaghan |first1=Joanne |title=Law and gender |date=2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199592920}}
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Category:British legal scholars
Category:Academics of the University of Bristol
Category:Academics of the University of Kent
Category:Academics of the University of Exeter
Category:University of California, San Diego faculty
Category:Fellows of the British Academy