Professor Anne Barlow
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Telephone: 01392 263159
Professor of Family Law and Policy
Anne Barlow joined Exeter Law School in 2004 from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and previously practised as a solicitor in London. She is a Law with French graduate of Sussex University and has also studied at the College of Law, London and the University of Strasbourg.
She has a particular interest in Family Law and Policy, especially the regulation of adult relationships such as cohabitation and marriage, but has also taught and researched in the areas of comparative law, housing law and welfare law and policy.
She has held a number of research grants awarded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, ESRC, Ministry of Justice and the Nuffield Foundation. Currently, she is leading a research project funded by the ESRC on Mapping Paths to Family Justice
Anne also leads the inter-disciplinary Network on Family, Regulation and Society. Together with colleagues from Bath, Bristol and Cardiff Universities and partner voluntary agencies engaged in family research, the Network brings together top international and UK researchers to debate research questions critical to the future of family law and policy.
External Positions and Appointments
- Member of the ESRC Grants Assessment Panel B, 2010 -
- Appointed as Academic Member of the Family Justice Council, 2011 - 2014
- Vice-Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, 2011 -
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
