Professor Julia Shaw is Professor of Law and Social Justice and founding Director of the Centre for Law, Justice and Society (CLJS) at De Montfort University.

After being awarded an Iredell Trust doctoral scholarship, she completed a PhD in Law at Lancaster University, where she held her first academic post.  Before joining DMU, she was Director of Legal Studies at Aston University and Associate Professor at Audencia Business School, Nantes, France. She has held visiting fellowships at the Jiaotong University, China and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; and was awarded an EU Horizon research mobility programme grant in 2020 to support research into indigenous communities, their rights and customary laws, focusing on the case of the Sámi people in Europe at Åbo Akademi Institute of Human Rights, Turku, Finland. Julia’s work is published in a variety of leading SSCI journals and edited collections. She is the author of Jurisprudence published by Pearson; now in its 3^rd edition; and research monographs, Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Justice and the Global Food Supply Chain with Hillary Shaw (Routledge) and Law and the Passions: Why Emotion Matters for Justice (Routledge), which was short-listed in 2020 for the annual Hart-SLSA Legal Theory book prize.

Julia was recently awarded a £224,934 EU Commission Horizon 2020 framework grant with Dr Jessica Parish. She acts as external advisor, panel member and reviewer for organisations including the Dutch Research Council NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek); National Science Centre Research Council, Government of Poland NCN (Narodowe Centrum Nauki); Midlands 4 Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (AHRC-funded scholarships) Panel A2: Law and Development; and the EU Horizon Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) EIT Culture and Creativity Database. Julia has served as an editorial member on the Boards of several international refereed journals and book series, she was a founder member and Associate Editor of the Social Responsibility Journal (Emerald). She sits on the editorial boards of several international refereed journals and book series, and is guest editor on special issues, most recently for the Journal of Responsible Technology (Elsevier). Her research includes law and public policy; responsible technologies; cybersecurity and online