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Dr Sarah Trotter

Dr Sarah Trotter

Assistant Professor of Law

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School

Telephone
0207-955-7258
Email
s.trotter@lse.ac.uk
Room No
Cheng Kin Ku Building 7.08
Languages
English, Welsh
Key Expertise
Family law; European human rights law

About me

Sarah is an Assistant Professor of Law. Her research focuses on the way in which the human condition is imagined in European human rights law and the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves. Her recent work in this context concerns questions of what it might mean to live with a sense of a ‘right to hope’; the construction of notions of truth and reality in family law; and the role of ideas about absence, loss, and lack in the construction of the category of personal identity in European human rights law.

Sarah convenes and teaches the LL221 Family Law course and co-convenes and teaches the LL211 Law, Poverty and Access to Justice course and the LL245 Feminist Legal Theory course. She is an Academic Fellow of the Middle Temple, a member of the Modern Law Review’s Editorial Committee, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the International Law Book Facility’s Operating Committee. She wrote her PhD thesis (‘On coming to terms: How European human rights law imagines the human condition’) at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, where she also taught family law and EU law on the LLB programme and human rights on the Summer School programme. She holds an LLB from ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (including an Erasmus year at Sciences Po, Paris) and an LLM from the University of Cambridge.

Research Interests

Sarah's research is in the fields of European human rights law, family law, and socio-legal studies. The focus of much of her work is on the way in which the human condition is imagined in European human rights law and the assumptions that are made in law about how we relate to one another and ourselves.

Teaching

 (summer school course)

LL211 Law, Poverty and Access to Justice

LL221 Family Law

LL245 Feminist Legal Theory 

 

Articles
  •  (2025) ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Public Policy Review 3(4):3, 1-10
  • Book review:  (2025) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 39 (1), ebaf005
  • (2024) Social & Legal Studies (also published as )
  • '' (Strasbourg Observers, 23 February 2024)
  • 'Thinking about secret birth', in Nigel Lowe and Claire Fenton-Glynn (eds.), (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)
  • 'Truth and Reality in Family Law', in Stephen Gilmore and Jens Scherpe (eds.),  (Intersentia, 2022)
  • 'Narratives of Absence: On the Construction and Limits of the Category of Personal Identity in European Human Rights Law' in J. Marshall (ed.),(Routledge, 2022)
  •  (contribution to the symposium on Legal Geography and EU Law) (2022) European Law Open 1(1), 135-139
  •  (2022) Human Rights Law Review 22 (2), ngac007
  •  (2021) Frontiers in Sociology 6:730216 doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2021.730216 (See also  (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ COVID-19 blog, 2 November 2021))
  • Book review: ‘Individual Rights under European Union Law. A study on the relation between rights, obligations and interests in the case law of the Court of Justice by Catherine Warin (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2019)’ (2020) Common Market Law Review 57 (5), 1648-1651 
  • Book review: 'EU Non-Discrimination Law in the Courts: Approaches to Sex and Sexualities Discrimination in EU Law by Jule Mulder. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2017)’ (2019) Common Market Law Review 56(3), 868-70
  • 'The regulation of urban gulls across the UK: a study of control measures' (2019) British Birds 112 (May), 282-292.
  • (2019) Cambridge Law Journal 78 (1), 38-41 
  • (2019) Journal of Law and Society 46 (1), 1-28 (republished in: Journal of Law and Society: 1974-2021 Virtual Issue [2021 Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference]) 
  •  (2018) Modern Law Review 81(3), 452-479
  • 'The ethos of replaceability in European human rights law' in N. Segal and J. Owen (eds.), On Replacement: Cultural, Social and Psychological Representations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
  • (2018) Human Rights Law Review 18(1), 157-169
  • with Damian Chalmers, '' (2016) European Law Journal (1), 9-39

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