Andrew joined the University of Bristol as a lecturer in law in 2021. Following law studies at the Universities of Cambridge (UK), Regensburg and Münster (both Germany), Andrew worked as a research assistant at the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ETL, Vienna) before joining the University of Birmingham (UK) as a postgraduate teaching associate and doctoral student. Andrew’s doctoral work concerned the conceptualisation of non-pecuniary loss and recovery for it in the tort of negligence. He returned to ETL as a post-doctoral researcher in 2016.
Andrew’s work is in private and comparative law and legal history, principally in the law of obligations. He has presented his research at national and international conferences and published in a range of books and journals. He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in private and comparative law at the University of Birmingham, University of Graz, and Vienna University of Economics and Business.
Joanna was appointed as a lecturer in law at the University of Bristol in 2017. After taking her MA (Law with Law Studies in Germany) and BCL at the University of Oxford, she worked as a research assistant at the Law Commission for England and Wales. She then embarked on her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, examining the interpretation of legal documents in the early modern common law courts. Her PhD was awarded in 2019.
Joanna’s research focuses on the historical development of the common law, and particularly on approaches to legal documents. She also writes on modern contract law. Joanna has presented her research at national and international conferences and has published a number of articles. She teaches undergraduate courses in contract law and legal history, and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research students.