Shubha Banerjee, BA(Hons) in Jurisprudence, Legal Practice Course (Distinction), MA in Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity. Admitted as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 1999.

Profile

Shubha Banerjee is a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London, with over 20 years’ experience as a solicitor specialising in employment law and acting on behalf of workers and trade unions.

Prior to joining academia, Shubha practised at a human rights firm, where she represented a large group of judges in litigation challenging changes to judicial pension schemes. The case concerned reforms requiring younger judges to transfer to less favourable pension arrangements, giving rise to claims of unlawful age discrimination, as well as indirect race and sex discrimination. The litigation was ultimately successful and has had significant implications across the wider public sector.
 
Shubha has longstanding expertise in employment and discrimination law, including strategic litigation addressing equality, workplace rights, and access to justice.

She joined Queen Mary in 2022 and teaches across undergraduate programmes, including Legal Skills, Method and Context, Contract law and Labour Law modules concerned with individual protections, human rights, and workplace justice. Her teaching draws on extensive practical experience, integrating real-world litigation examples into the study of employment law and legal method.   She is also the academic lead on Careers and Employability, drawing on her experience of recruiting paralegals, trainee solicitors and solicitors whilst in private practice.  

Shubha also holds a Master’s degree in Culture, Diaspora and Ethnicity from Birkbeck College, reflecting her wider academic interests in diversity, equality and the social context of law.

Undergraduate Teaching

• Contract Law I and II (module convenor for Contract II).
• Labour Law.
• Legal Skills, Method and Context.
• Practice of Law in a Clinical Environment.
• Public Legal Education.

Research

Supervision

• Dissertation supervisor.

Public Engagement

• Vice Chair of the Industrial Law Society.
• Member of the Race Equality Committee of the Employment Lawyers Association (and was one of the Committee’s founding chairs).
• Member of the Legislative and Policy Committee of the Employment Lawyers Association.
• Speaker at Queen Mary ’s event to mark the 60th anniversary of the Law School, speaking on the topic of ’60 years of law and legal thinking about ‘race’.