Sian Lewis

Sian Lewis is a graduate of Durham University and the London School of Economics. She was called to the Bar in 1985 and is a member of Gray’s Inn. She completed her pupillage in the Inner Temple before moving to work as a Crown Prosecutor, in the Crown Prosecution Service of Inner London. She later worked for numerous international human rights non governmental organisations, as well as intergovernmental organisations. She has engaged in devising and delivering human rights training programmes for judges and prosecutors in the Balkans, and Middle East and North and West Africa. She developed a series of training manuals for lawyers litigating human rights cases across Eastern Europe. She started her teachingNcareer at Oxford Brookes University.

Sian Lewis has been interviewed many times on both regional and national BBC and independent radio and television news programmes on issues relating to asylum seekers and the so called “small boats” phenomenon. Please contact the Press Office for access to recordings.

To contact Sian please email S.Lewis@kent.ac.uk. Her old address remains in the contact section in order to display her publications. 

Sian Lewis’s research interests have focused on the provision of human rights training, or writing reports for human rights organisations. Most of this work relates to the right to liberty and security and fair trial rights, including the prohibition against torture. More recently, she developed online courses in international human rights law and international migration law on the FutureLearn platform.

Undergraduate

• Critical Introduction to Law: LAWS4003
• Public Law: LAWS4006
• Criminal Law: LAWS4002