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Georgina Firth is a Senior Lecturer in the Law School at Lancaster University, part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS). She serves as the academic officer for the Law School and previously led as Director of Undergraduate Studies (LLB degrees). Her teaching focuses on Criminal Law, Crime and Criminal Justice, Evidence, and Immigration/Asylum Law, with additional interests in prison law and human rights. She supervises the OISC-registered Immigration and Asylum strand of the Lancaster University Law Clinic.
Her research bridges academia and legal practice, emphasizing reforms in rape law, asylum processes for women/children, and feminist legal perspectives. Key projects include editing Immigration and Asylum Law (OUP) and leading initiatives like the Lancaster University Innocence Project, which investigates wrongful convictions. She is also advancing refugee law networks in the North West and exploring welfare principles for child refugees.
Georgina has peer-reviewed ESRC and ERC grants, contributed to conferences (e.g., 'Contemporary Issues in Refugee Law'), and published on gender in refugee law, testimony in asylum cases, and criminal defense reforms. She remains a member of Garden Court North Chambers, maintaining legal practice links.
Her affiliations include the Centre for Gender Studies, CILHR, and the Migrancy Research Group. She advocates for legal reforms addressing systemic biases, particularly through feminist and socio-legal frameworks.
