Ms Lia Lawton
Subject: Law
Department: Law
Academic position: Lecturer I in Law
Contact
Background
Before arriving at Oxford in 2022, I was a personal injury solicitor at a boutique firm in Sydney, Australia, working on common law damages claims and litigation. I obtained my BCL from Hertford College in 2023, and my LLB from the Australian National University in 2020.
Research and Teaching
I teach Jurisprudence here at Magdalen, whilst also teaching Jurisprudence and Contracts for Corpus. My research is focused on exploring how courts reason in judicial review in England & Wales, looking at the relationship between theory and doctrine. My supervisor is Professor Liz Fisher.
Publications
Lia Lawton, ‘Thinking Legally about Remedy in Judicial Review: R (on the application of Imam) v London Borough of Croydon’ (2025) 88 MLR 389
Lia Lawton, ‘Section 31(2A) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 in the Courts’ [2025] PL 239 (cited in R (Bradbury) v Brecon Beacons National Park Authority [2025] EWCA Civ 489 at [72])
