Derby Law School staff

As a Professor of Law and Business, Flora Huang focuses her research on corporate and financial law, international trade law, arbitration, Chinese law as well as law and sustainable development. She is currently serving as the EU Chairperson for Arbitrations and the Trade-and-Sustainable-Development Expert Panel Proceedings at the European Commission.

Sue Jennings is an experienced solicitor and academic, and the Head of Derby Law School.

As Course Director, Chris oversees the curriculum quality and development, learning and teaching and the student experience in the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences.

Joel is currently the Programme Leader for the Undergraduate LL.B Law Programmes. His areas of interest include Commercial Law, International Trade and International Economic Law. He has a further interest in ensuring that the Law School engages with the local community and thereby contributes and subscribes to values of Social Justice for the benefit of the local community.

Larry teaches Equity and Succession which is a core module for final year undergraduate Law students. He is also module tutor for the undergraduate Company Law and Evidence modules. His research interests are auditor independence and expert opinion evidence.

Michala Meiselles is Senior Lecturer and module leader. Before joining, she was Associate Professor at Université Jean Moulin where she is visiting professor.  She sits on Academic Board. She is a solicitor and consults on trade and compliance. She read law at University of Manchester (LLB and LLM) and is Senior Fellow of the HEA.  

Dr Chrispas Nyombi is Associate Professor of International Commercial Law. He joined the University of Derby in October 2021. Prior to this, he worked at Canterbury Christchurch University (Reader in International Commercial law) and the University of Bedfordshire (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Law).

Dr Oriola is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Derby Law School; Programme Leader for LLM Degree Pathways; and Programme Leader for LLM Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law.

Hakeem Yusuf is Professor of Law and Global Studies at the University of Derby's Law School. He was awarded the prestigious John T Saywell Prize for Canadian Constitutional Legal History in 2015 by the Osgoode Society of Canadian Legal History.