Anna Lawson

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Anna Lawson
Born1966 (age 5758)
Holyhead, Wales
Academic background
Alma mater University of Leeds
Jesus College, Oxford
Institutions University of Leeds

Anna Lawson, FBA , FAcSS (born 1966) is a British legal scholar specialising in disability and law. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Law at the University of Leeds. She was additionally joint director of the university's Centre for Disability Studies from 2015 to 2023. [1] [2] [3] She has also served as a special advisor to the House of Commons' Women and Equalities Committee and an expert advisor to the Council of Europe. [4]

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Early life and education

Lawson was born in 1966 in Holyhead, North Wales. [5] She is blind, [1] having lost her sight through macular degeneration between the ages fo 7 and 25, [6] and was educated at Exhall Grange, a specialist school for visually impaired pupils. [5] She has a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from the University of Leeds, and a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL) degree from Jesus College, Oxford. [1] [5] She was also awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree by the University of Leeds in 2015; her PhD was awarded by published work, rather than for a doctoral thesis. [7]

Honours

On 28 November 2017, Lawson was made an honorary bencher of Middle Temple. [8] In July 2022, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [9] She is also an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS). [10]

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