Dr Monika Lynch
Salford Business School
Current positions
Lecturer in Law
Biography
I read law at Edge Hill University, where I was awarded prizes for outstanding academic achievements. These included: The Beryl Russell Academic Achievement Scholarship in recognition of achieving the highest APM in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, The Duncan Gibbins Solicitors Scholarship and The Edge Hill University Mooting Excellence Award. My 2017 LLM thesis entitled 'EU Solidarity: Constitutional Myth or Flawed Reality. A Study of the EU's Response to the Migration Crisis' was selected as the best postgraduate dissertation in the field of immigration and asylum by the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law.
I subsequently secured a PhD scholarship at Edge Hill University and, in 2025, successfully defended my comparative doctoral research into the application of path dependency to account for and explain the development of constitutional law in Poland and Ireland.
When in practice, I worked at one of the UK’s largest employment law consultancies and for solicitors’ firms in the area of private litigation. I bring the experience of legal practice with me to the classroom and to my research.
Areas of Research
My research expertise runs along the two main themes. Firstly, the role of law in polity system transformation which involves a comparative examination of international law. Secondly, the refugee and migration law especially in the context of European Union, which includes analysis of the perspective the European Union’s law takes on refugee and migration issue as a group of 27 sovereign member states.
I also have a long standing passion for family and child law.
Key Impact areas:
1.The role of law in polity system change (my PhD Thesis)
2.Refugee a migration law (award winning LLM Thesis)
3.EU Law with focus on antitrust law (published in this area)
4. IP Law (European and international perspective)
Keywords: EU Competition Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property Law, Refugee and Migration Law, Family and Child Law
Areas of Supervision
EU Law and Policy - anti-trust and competition, intellectual property, migration and refugee
Public domestic and international constitutional law
Legal theory
Family Law (E&W)
At Salford University, I am a module leader for Intellectual Property Law and Family Law, and I also deliver EU Law, Equity and Trusts, Ethics and Legal Writing. I also coordinate and deliver mooting provision (workshops and competitions) for level 3-6 students.
I am also a recruitment tutor for the Salford University Law School.
Qualifications
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PhD in Law
2018 - 2025 -
PGCert in HE
2017 - 2019 -
LLM Res
2016 - 2017