Professor Donatella Alessandrini is a critical legal scholar whose research lies at the intersection of law and political economy. She has a particular interest in the relationship between international and national economic law as well as socio-economic inequalities.

She co-directs the University’s LLM programme and is Loughborough University London’s Deputy Director of Research.  

As well as sitting on the editorial boards of Law and Critique and feminists@law, she is a founding member of The IEL Collective, a community of scholars and practitioners interested in critical reflection on the interactions between law and the global economy. She is also a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Prior to joining Loughborough Law, Donatella worked at the University of Kent.