Diamond Ashiagbor

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Diamond Ashiagbor
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
European University Institute
Occupation(s)Professor of Law and author

Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent and author of several books.

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Life and work

Ashiagbor earned her BA and MA at University of Oxford and her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She went on to receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education at Oxford. [1] [2]

She has served as Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London and also Professor of Labour Law at SOAS University of London. She has held several visiting positions at Columbia Law School, Melbourne Law School, and Osgoode Hall. [3] [4] [1] [2]

She was awarded in October 2020 as a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, the Academy proposed her fellowship by themselves. [1] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Professor Diamond Ashiagbor". Kent Law School - University of Kent. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 ORCID. "Diamond Ashiagbor (0000-0002-7533-8853)". orcid.org. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  3. Knight, Bill (9 March 2020). "Portraits of UK black female professors – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  4. Diamond Ashiagbor (2005). The European Employment Strategy: Labour Market Regulation and New Governance. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-927964-7.
  5. "Professor Diamond Ashiagbor awarded Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences – Kent Law School News". 19 October 2020. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  6. Ashiagbor, Diamond (1 February 2018). "Theorizing the Relationship Between Social Law and Markets in Regional Integration Projects". Social & Legal Studies. 27 (4): 435–455. doi:10.1177/0964663918754373. S2CID   168720213.
  7. Ashiagbor, Diamond (3 November 2005). The European Employment Strategy. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279647.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-927964-7. Archived from the original on 19 January 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  8. Ashiagbor, Diamond, ed. (2019). Re-Imagining Labour Law for Development: Informal Work in the Global North and South. Hart Publishing. doi:10.5040/9781509913138.0005. ISBN   978-1-5099-1315-2. S2CID   201340992. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 7 March 2021.