Alex Sharpe

Biography

Professor Sharpe joined Keele in 2004. Prior to her appointment at Keele she taught and researched at Macquarie University, the University of Sydney, the University of Western Australia, the University of East London and the LSE. She has been a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden, the Crime and Justice Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, and the Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney. In addition to her Keele Chair, she currently holds an Adjunct Professorship at Queensland University of Technology (2014 -). She has been involved in transgender law reform and activism for over twenty years. During that time, she has provided advice to various government agencies and departments, members of parliament, law firms, public interest advocacy organisations, and a variety of professional bodies, both in the UK and internationally. She has been cited judicially by the European Court of Human Rights and by a series of other courts in domestic jurisdictions. She sits on the International Legal Committee of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). This committee makes law reform interventions in transgender litigation worldwide by way of amicus briefs. She also sits on Amnesty International's Expert Committee on the Criminalisation of Sexual and Reproductive Conduct.

Research Interest

Professor Sharpe’s primary research interests lie in the areas of Social and Legal Theory, Legal History, and Gender, Sexuality and the Law.