Diamond Ashiagbor joined the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in October 2016, having previously been Professor of Labour Law at SOAS University of London. Her previous positions include: Reader in Law and Lecturer in Law at University College London; Research Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford; Lecturer in Law at the University of Hull. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, New York; Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School; and Visiting Researcher at the United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), Bruges. She has also been the recipient of a US-EU Fulbright Research Award; a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute; and a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.