Dr Andrew Tickell
Senior Lecturer in Law and Interim Head of Department for Economics and Law
Department of Economics and Law
Andrew joined GCU in September 2014 and is now a Senior Lecturer in Law. He was appointed Interim Head of Department for Economics and Law in October 2024.
Andrew completed his LLB (Hons) at the University of Edinburgh (awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize for the most distinguished graduate of the year, jointly with Jill Robbie). During his undergraduate studies, he also spent an exchange year studying international and European human rights law at the Universiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands.
He then completed an MSc in Equality and Human Rights at the University of Glasgow before embarking on doctoral study at the University of Oxford with a thesis focusing on the admissibility decision-making of the European Court of Human Rights.
Andrew’s teaching and research interests now include criminal law and evidence, devolution and public law, and more recently, miscarriages of justice. He has also taught the National Council for the Training of Journalists courses in media law and court reporting for a number of years.
Andrew has a particular interest in the intersection between law, politics and policy and has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament on fourteen occasions during the last decade on diverse issues including hate crime, human rights, defamation, devolution, and domestic abuse.
He also works regularly with the Scottish Government and third-sector organisations on law reform issues and features regularly in the national media discussing legal and political issues. He currently writes a regular weekly column published in the Herald on Sunday and Sunday National newspapers.
Andrew’s recent research has focused on issues of social media and reporting restrictions in sexual offence cases. In 2020, he co-founded the Campaign for Complainer Anonymity with Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, researching international best practice and advocating for reform of this area of law. He also has an interest in access to justice and the emerging phenomenon of legal crowdfunding and has recently concluded a ten-year national study of crowdfunded cases.