Bela Bonita Chatterjee

Dr Bela Bonita Chatterjee is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Lancaster University School of Law, with a focus on teaching and scholarship since 2020. Her work bridges cyberlaw, artificial intelligence, robotics, and gender/sexuality in legal contexts. She has received multiple teaching accolades, including the 2023 Blue Plaque Award and the 2018 FASS Dean’s Senior Teaching Award.

Dr Chatterjee’s research interrogates the interdisciplinary intersections of law and technology, particularly cybercrime, AI and criminal law, and widening participation in legal education. Her recent scholarship explores robotics in criminal law and business attire/fashion as legal subjects.

• 2025: 'The Speakeasy' conference paper
• 2023: Invited discussant on child sex dolls/robots
• 2022: Workshops on assessment design and audio-visual feedback
• 2020: Decolonizing the curriculum and digital teaching practices
• 2019: Robotics in family law, child protection, and Lex Robotica
• 2018: Robotics and sexual violence

Scientific Awards:

• 2023 Blue Plaque Award
• 2022 Highly Commended Award
• 2018 FASS Dean’s Senior Teaching Award
• 2006 Sir Alistair Pilkington Prize
• Nominee/Shortlisted for HEA NTFS and OUP Law Teacher of the Year Awards

Dr Chatterjee has supervised and examined numerous PhD and LLM dissertations, served on editorial boards of journals like Frontiers of Legal Research, and co-organized conferences such as the British Association for Canadian Studies Legal Studies Group Annual Conference. She contributes to committees including the CREST Security Research Ethics Committee and EPSRC Fellowship Advisory Board.