Anna Lawson is a professor of Law at the University of Leeds where, between 2015 and 2023, she was also a Joint Director of the University-wide Centre for Disability Studies. She holds an ERC Advanced Grant award titled ‘Inclusive Public Space: Law, Universality and Difference in the Accessibility of Streets’. Anna Lawson’s work focuses primarily on disability equality and human rights - at national, European and international levels. She has played lead roles in a range of interdisciplinary national and multinational projects – focusing, in particular, on law’s role in challenging (and generating) discrimination, exclusion and barriers to accessibility and access to justice. Her academic work on disability and law is rooted in her own experience as a disabled person and her work with a range of local, national and European human rights and disabled people’s organisations. Anna Lawson has been elected as a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also an Honorary Bencher at the Middle Temple Inn of Court and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvain-La-Neuve.