Dr Genevieve Lennon

Personal statement

I joined the Law School in 2014 as a Chancellor’s Fellow having worked at the University of Dundee since 2010. I hold a PhD and master’s degree in law from the University of Leeds. I have taught across a wide range of subjects, with a particular focus on the English Law of Equity and Trusts, English Criminal Law and Counter-Terrorism Law.

My research examines policing, police law and policy as well as counter-terrorist law and policy, with a particular interest in accountability and human rights. I am co-investigator on the five-country, ORA/ERSC funded project ‘Police Accountability: Towards International Standards’. Other recent work on police accountability includes the Principles for Accountable Policing (2023). I was co-leader of the Working Group on the Governance of Police Stops in the E-COST POLSTOPS project, and a contributing co-editor to Governing Police Stops Across Europe (2023). I co-edited the Routledge Handbook on Law and Terrorism (2015), most recently publishing on terrorist non-jury trials (2024). I was a member of the Independent Advisory Group on the Use of Biometric Data in Scotland (2017) and am an independent member of the Advisory Board to the Scottish Biometrics Commissioner (2021 – present). I authored an impact case-study on police stops for REF 2021.