Senior Lecturer in Law

I joined the University of Bedfordshire as a Senior Lecturer in Law in 2024. Previously, I have worked at the University of Leeds, Durham University and Queen Mary, University of London. I gained my LLB at University College London (2007-2010), and a Bachelor of Civil Law at Wolfson College, Oxford (2012-2013) and PhD (2013-2017) at Queen Mary, University of London.

My main teaching areas are constitutional law and human rights. My research examines the appropriate legal responses to inequality and discrimination. I have published in leading generalist and specialist academic journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Studies, the Modern Law Review and the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. My monograph with Hart Publishing examines the morality of age discrimination and how this should guide the application of age discrimination laws to identify unjustified and unlawful age discrimination. My publications include work on the justifiability of judicial retirement ages and work examining whether courts and tribunals should treat age discrimination as less serious than paradigm forms of discrimination. More recently, my research examines the appropriateness of using the criminal law to enforce equality. On this theme, I have an article arguing for extending hate crime laws to protect age groups and a forthcoming article arguing for a carefully designed criminal ban as a legitimate response to the serious harms caused by ‘conversion therapy’ to LGBT+ people.

Qualifications

• PhD Law – Queen Mary, University of London
• BCL – University of Oxford
• LLB – University College London

Teaching Expertise

• Constitutional and administrative law
• Antidiscrimination law
• International human rights law
• Dissertation

Research Interests

• Antidiscrimination law
• Equality laws
• Human rights

Publications

• Goosey S. Forthcoming. Criminalising ‘Conversion therapy’. Modern Law Review.
• Goosey S. 2021. Ageism as a Hate Crime: The Case for Extending Aggravated Offences to Protect Age Groups. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.
• Goosey S. 2021. A Pluralist Theory of Age Discrimination. Bloomsbury Publishing
• Goosey S. 2020. Oxford University’s Mandatory Retirement Age: A Justified Experiment to Promote Equality or Unlawful Age Discrimination?.
• Goosey S. 2019. Is Age Discrimination a Less Serious Form of Discrimination?. Legal Studies.
• Goosey S. 2018. The legality and morality of judicial retirement ages. International Journal of Discrimination and the Law. 197-217 18.4 

Contact Details

E: Stuart.Goosey@beds.ac.uk