Dr Helen Rutherford is an Associate Professor in Law at Northumbria University. She practised as a solicitor for several years and is a Qualified Teacher and Fellow of the HEA. Helen is Programme Leader for the Law Foundation Year and teaches civil litigation, legal history, and inquests on the MLaw and LLB degrees. She has managed civil firms in the pro-bono Student Law Office and has taught English legal system, tort, civil rights in practice, and trials of dissenters at undergraduate level and civil litigation on the Legal Practice Course.Birju Kotecha is an Assistant Professor in Law at Northumbria University. He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in July 2021. He has taught English Legal System, Tort and Public International Law to undergraduates. He has also taught Professional Ethics to postgraduate students on the Bar Training Course. He has acted as admissions tutor for Bar programmes and chaired the Law School's Bar Scholarship committee.Angela Macfarlane is a practising Solicitor, formerly an Assistant Professor in Law at Northumbria University and a Fellow of the HEA. Angela has practising experience in civil and criminal law including civil actions against the police, commercial, public and employment law. Angela has managed employment law firms in her former university's pro-bono Student Law Office, as Programme Leader of postgraduate law programmes and has taught commercial contracts, employment law, key skills for employability, information rights in employment, and equality and diversity at undergraduate and postgraduate level.Dr Charlotte Emmett is an Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria University. Before entering academia, she worked as a solicitor in private practice, both in the UK and overseas. Charlotte has over 25 years' experience in Higher Education, having served as Director of Education in the Law School for over four years and currently serving as the School's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Charlotte has designed and taught a wide range of academic and skills-based programmes on the LPC, Bar Course, MLaw and LLB degrees, including property law and conveyancing, civil dispute resolution, tort law, and advanced personal injury law.
