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    Dr Eliza Varney

    Dr Eliza Varney

    Title
    Senior Lecturer
    Location
    Chancellor's Building, CBC1.019
    Role
    Postgraduate Research Lead for the School of Law (semester 1)
    Contact me
    During office hours without an appointment, or email to make an appointment
    Phone
    +44 (0) 1782 733544
    Email
    e.varney@keele.ac.uk

    Biography

    Eliza completed her LLB at the University of Hull (1999), her LLM in Romania (2001) and her PhD at the University of Hull (2006). She also has a PgC in Research Training from the University of Hull (2004) and a PgC in Teaching and Learning in HE from Keele University (2007). Prior to joining Keele in 2004, Eliza worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Hull.

    Research and scholarship

    Eliza’s research is in disability equality, focusing on the compatibility of English Contract Law with the values pursued by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), in particular the protection of human dignity. Eliza has also conducted research on disability equality and access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the implementation of the CRPD. Her publications include the monograph Disability and Information Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2013), book chapters, including the contributions on Articles 21 and 49 CRPD in Ilias Bantekas, Michael Ashley Stein, and Dimitris Anastasiou (eds.) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2018), and articles in Legal Studies, King’s Law Journal, Journal of Business Law, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, Communications Law, Utilities Law Review and Zeitschrift fur Rechtssoziologie.
    Eliza would like to supervise postgraduate research on disability equality and contract law.

    Teaching

    Undergraduate teaching:

    Obligations 1: Contract Law (Module Leader)

    Commercial Law (Module Leader)

    Business Law

    Employment Law

    Disability Law

    Eliza would like to supervise undergraduate dissertations in Contract Law (including contract theory)

    Further information

    Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association

    Member of the Society of Legal Scholars

    Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    Publications

    Article 21 CRPD: Freedom of Expression and Opinion, and Access to Information’ in Ilias Bantekas et. al. (eds.) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2018).

    Article 49 CRPD: Accessible Format’ in Ilias Bantekas et. al. (eds.) The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2018)

    School of Law
    Keele University
    Staffordshire
    ST5 5BG
    Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733218
    Fax: +44 (0)1782 733228
    Email: School of Law Office

    Admissions enquiries:
    Tel: +44(0)1782 733218
    Email: law.admissions@keele.ac.uk

    Postgraduate enquiries:
    Tel: +44 (0) 1782 733218
    Email: law.office@keele.ac.uk