Michael Doherty - Lancaster University

Professor Michael Doherty

Professor of Legal Design and Associate Head (Student Experience)

Profile

Prof Michael Doherty was appointed as Professor of Law at Lancaster in 2019. He is Associate Head of the Law School and the lead for student experience. He is a former Chair of the Association of Law Teachers, and his scholarship covers both substantive law and scholarship of teaching and learning.

Michael has a longstanding interest in Public Law, has taught the subject for over 30 years and is author of the textbook, . This is now in its third edition and is co-authored with Dr Noel McGuirk (Routledge, 2022). He has taught, researched and published on human rights and on environmental law.

His current research and pedagogy focus is in the developing field of legal design - applying design thinking to legal problems and processes. He has co-edited (published by Edward Elgar, 2021), and is currently completing another collection on ''.

His research explores many facets of legal design such as the , the implications of information design practices for , and has applied design thinking to .