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Dr Jinal Dadiya, BA LLB (India), BCL (Oxford), PhD (Cambridge)

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Private Law

Email: j.dadiya@qmul.ac.uk

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Dr Jinal Dadiya is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Private Law at Queen Mary University of London and an AHRC International Fellow at the Library of Congress. She researches themes in the law of obligations, health law, and legal history, and is particularly interested in questions of interpersonal justice. Currently, she is working on a funded research project on romantic obligations in nineteenth century Anglo-American heartbalm torts. She has previously written on reproductive justice, fertility clinic regulation, and the human right to health.

Prior to joining Queen Mary, Jinal was a Lecturer in Law Goldsmiths, University of London, and has worked as a regulatory affairs attorney. She has consulted with NHS Commissioning Bodies, government departments and charities on a range of issues including food and cosmetics regulation, healthcare provision, and data governance.

Jinal’s holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she was a Cambridge International and Evans Lewis-Thomas Scholar. She also has degrees in law from the University of Oxford and the National Law School in India.

 

Undergraduate Teaching

  • Tort Law.
  • Criminal Law.

Research

  • Romantic Obligations and the Law;
  • Ethics of Love;
  • Law and Friendship;
  • Interpersonal Justice;
  • Reproductive Justice;
  • History of Legal Thought.

Examples of research funding:

  • AHRC International Fellowship (Title: Romantic Injustices: A History of Common Law Thinking About Heartbreak);
  • Goldsmiths Early Career Research Award.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Blogs, Magazine Articles and Working Papers:

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