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Rebecca Moosavian is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leeds' School of Law, part of the Faculty of Social Sciences. She specializes in media law, intellectual property law, and constitutional law, with a focus on privacy rights, free expression, and legal critiques of governmental actions such as the Iraq War and pandemic measures. Her research integrates critical legal theories to analyze law's role in shaping knowledge and power dynamics.
Education includes an LL.B (Hons), Legal Practice Certificate, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, and MPhil. Professional memberships include the Society of Legal Scholars and Socio-Legal Scholars Association, where she serves on the executive board of the latter.
Research interests center on Article 8 (privacy) and Article 10 (free expression) conflicts, particularly in misuse of private information cases involving photography and image rights. She also examines constitutional issues such as executive power in wartime and pandemic governance, employing proportionality analysis and critiques of legal language's idiosyncrasies.
Recent articles focus on privacy vs free speech tensions, pandemic proportionality, and SLAPP litigation. While no awards are listed, her work engages deeply with public interest law, gender politics, and legal reform. She supervises postgraduate researcher Christopher Robinson and leads the LLB (Graduate Programme). Affiliated with the Centre for Business Law and Practice and Centre for Law and Social Justice, her scholarship bridges legal theory and societal impact.
