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Dr Adam Ramshaw

Assistant Professor

School: Northumbria School of Law

Adam is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria Law School. He is the Deputy Convenor of the Law and Society Research Group. 

Adam has published in leading journals such as Legal Studies, the European Law Review, and the European Human Rights Law Review.

Adam's research is broadly concerned with human rights, constitutional law, and legal theory. Adam is particularly interested in how courts use concepts such as proportionality to assess the infringement of fundamental rights.

Adam is a member of the UKRI Talent Peer Review College. 

Before academia Adam practised as a paralegal at Bond Dickinson, taking instructions from the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, and Skills.

Adam Ramshaw

Human rights, constitutional law, and legal theory.

  • Rachel Williams An investigation into the use of land transactions devised to engage Section 203 of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 Start Date: 04/04/2018 End Date: 23/05/2025
  • Angela Kelly The meaning of the mesh’ – An examination of fifty years of subordinate legislation in Ireland. Start Date: 29/01/2024
  • Barry Magee Abeyance of Title in the Establishment of the Irish Free State Start Date: 06/09/2022

  • Law PhD January 09 2017
  • Law LLB (Hons) June 30 2012
  • HEA Fellowship


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