Our people
Find out more about the people who make up the Manchester Law and Technology Initiative.
Academic staff
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Orkun Akseli, Academic Director and Chair
Orkun is Professor of Commercial Law, he studied his LLB and MA in Turkey, LLM in the USA, and PhD at the University of Manchester; he is delighted to return to his alma mater. Since 2022 Orkun is Academic Director of MLaTI and plans to launch and lead a new Legal Innovation Research Group which will complement and feed in to MLaTI. His teaching and research interests are in the field of secured transactions, banking & financial law, and arbitration & mediation. He has been involved in law reform initiatives under the auspices of UNCITRAL and Unidroit.
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Dr Joseph Lee, Reader in Corporate and Financial Law
Joseph has written extensively in the area of law and technology, including on the application of blockchain in the energy markets and the deployment of AI/Data analytics to enhance ESG. His current research projects focus on the use of DAOs in Web3 as an innovative form of collaboration and sharing. He is a member of the LawTech Advisory Council of the Astana International Financial Centre and co-director of the Manchester LawTech Initiative.
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Nadia Papamichail, Senior Lecturer, Alliance Manchester Business School
Nadia is Senior Lecturer in Information and Decision Systems at Alliance Manchester Business School, and Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Nadia works on the interface of decision behaviour, analysis, and support, her Turing research focuses on the development of AI tools with explainable and interpretable outputs. Nadia also chairs the Decision Analysis special interest group – DASIG.
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Bijan Parsia, Reader, School of Computer Science
Bijan is a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science and a member of the Information Management Group (IMG) since May of 2006. Before that, he was a faculty research associate in the Mindswap group at the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP). Bijan’s academic specialties are philosophy and computer science, with research specialisms include semantic web, knowledge representation and reasoning, his teaching includes semi-structured data and the web.
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Bruce Tether, Professor of Innovation Management
Bruce is Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy and Associate Head of Research, Innovation, Management and Policy division; a leading centre for innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship, researching on the challenges facing firms and public services. Specialist in innovation in professional services; and the competitive dynamics of professional service firms.
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Management team
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Claire McGourlay, Professor of Legal Education
Claire is a Professor of Legal Education at The University of Manchester and a National and Principal Fellow of the HEA. She is the director of external relations in the School of Social Sciences and is also the director of the Miscarriages of Justice Review Centre. Claire is driving forward the integration of legal tech into the curriculum and has created the Manchester Justice Hub in partnership with students.
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Rachel Kenyon, Programmes Manager
Rachel is the University’s Business Engagement Lead for LegalTech and related thematic areas, and provides programme management for MLaTI. The Business Engagement team provides a mechanism for collaboration between universities and the wider-world. Prior to joining the University Rachel spent several years working in corporate responsibility and responsible finance roles at the Co-operative Group, including client relationship management and investment analysis, which brings a strong multi-sector commercial awareness to the academic university role.
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