Amanda Spalding

Dr Amanda Spalding is a Lecturer of Law at the University of Leeds specialising in immigration law and human rights. Her research primarily focuses on immigration law and policy in the UK and Europe and its relationship with human rights and criminal law. Her book: The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights: Moving Beyond Criminalisation examined the ways in which the judicial interpretation of human rights in the ECtHR has failed to keep up with the criminalisation of immigration in Europe and how this is part of a wider ‘two-tier’ system of human rights and criminal justice. She has authored papers published in journals such as the Modern Law Review and Legal Studies which examine various aspects of the criminalisation of immigration in the UK from a legal perspective. She is currently the Deputy Editor for the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.