I am a Lecturer in Law at Northumbria Law School. Before joining Northumbria, I was a Skills Enhancement Fellow at the School of Law, University of Leeds.
I hold a PhD in Law and Literature from the University of Münster and an LLM in International and European Human Rights Law from the University of Leeds.
My research focuses on the literary theorisation of border crossings and the construction of legal borders. I am also currently conducting research on the use of Anti-Social Behaviour legislation to regulate public space. My wider research interests include critical legal geography, law and literature, and law and film.
- A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House (2020), Patchett, E. 12 Nov 2025, In: Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law
- Performing spatial justice in the shadow of Grenfell, Patchett, E. 3 Jul 2025, In: Law and Humanities
- Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders, Patchett, E. 9 Nov 2025, Cultural Practices of Place , Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan
- Tanya's Last Resort: On Law, Disorientation, and Enclosure, Patchett, E. 20 May 2024, The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies, Abingdon, Routledge
PhD September 27 2017
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