Dr Hannah Phillips

Overview

Hannah Phillips LLB(Hons), LLM-R, PhD, SFHEA joined The City Law School as a Lecturer in Law in September 2021 after previously working as a Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent. Her primary research and teaching interests lie in land law, the law of equity and trusts and theories of property.

Hannah’s broader research interests lie in the intersections between law and the humanities and questions surrounding the writing of critical legal histories. She has a keen interest in the developments that have been made within philosophical hermeneutics and historiography more generally, with the work of Reinhart Koselleck and Hans-Georg Gadamer being of particular interest. In her ESRC funded doctoral research, Hannah sought to trace the ongoing presence of the grand narrative form within law’s engagements with history and its writing, examining the ways in which law becomes implicated in the formation (and subsequent manipulation) of notions of national identity, tradition and legitimacy. In doing so she contrasted the forms of historiography that are utilised during such processes against forms of historiography that adopt a more flexible sense of temporality.

Hannah is the module leader for GE LLB Land Law and LLB Foundations of Trusts.

Qualifications

• PhD in Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom, 2011 - September 2017
• LLM by Research, Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom, September 2010 - January 2014
• LLB (Hons), Kent Law School, University of Kent, United Kingdom, September 2007 - June 2010

Employment

• Lecturer in Law, City, University of London, United Kingdom, September 2021 - present
• Lecturer in Law, University of Kent, United Kingdom, September 2017 - August 2021
• Subject Tutor, University of Kent, United Kingdom, January - August 2017
• Guest Teacher, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom, January - June 2017
• Assistant Lecturer, University of Kent, United Kingdom, January 2011 - August 2017

Administrative role

• Deputy Associate Dean of Education

Memberships of professional organisations

• Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, July 2022 - present