Alex Powell 

Dr Alex Powell is an Associate Professor in Law at Warwick Law School. He joined WLS in 2025, having previously been an Associate Professor in Law at Oxford Brookes University, where he was also Director of the LLM programmes.

Alex is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersections of law, gender, sexuality and migration. His work utilises critical and socio-legal methodologies. His first Monograph, Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration, is due for publication in November as a part of Bristol University Press's Law, Society, Policy series.

Alex holds a PhD in Law from City, University of London, for a thesis entitled Queering Refugee Law: A Study of Sexual Diversity in Asylum Policy and Practice in the United Kingdom. Alex also holds an LLM (With Distinction) in Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory from Birkbeck, University of London and an LLB in Law (First Class) from the University of Reading.

Alongside his teaching and research responsibilities at the University of Warwick, Alex is currently Co-Convenor of the Migration and Asylum Section of the Society of Legal Scholars, a Trustee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and a Research Affiliate of the Refugee Law Initiative at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.