Daniel Monk joined the Law School as a Lecturer in January 2003 and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2017. From 1996–2002 he was a lecturer in law at Keele University. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1991 and was an articled clerk (trainee solicitor) at the West End entertainment law firm Clintons. He was an editor at Butterworths Publishers while studying part-time for his Masters degree.
He was one of the founder members of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS) which was established in 2008 and he was the Director from 2012-2015.
His research has explored a wide range of issues relating to families, children, education and sexuality. He has been awarded funding by the Nuffield Foundation, The Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society of Legal Scholars, the British Academy and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law and has had Visiting Professorships at the University of Antwerp and Tel Aviv University. He has been awarded two Public Engagement awards in recognition of the impact of his research about both the treatment of siblings in the public care system (2019) and the regulation of Elective Home Education (2018).
He is currently writing about the relationship between law and art in the context of inheritance and family law, undertaking research about the regulation of school dress codes, and engaging with current reform of the laws about elective home education.
A full list of Daniel's publications is available here