Sinéad Agnew

LLB (Dublin), MJur (Oxon), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (LSE)

College roles

Fellow (A)
College Lecturer in Law
Director of Studies in Law (Part II)
Postgraduate Mentor

University roles

Catherine Seville Associate Professor in Law

Biography

Dr Sinéad Agnew is the inaugural Catherine Seville Lecturer in Law at Newnham College and the Faculty of Law. At the faculty, she lectures in Equity and Land Law. In college, she is Director of Studies in Law, and supervises Equity.

Sinéad holds degrees in law from Trinity College Dublin (LLB), Oxford University (M Jur) and the London School of Economics (PhD), and a degree in social and economic history from the University of Cambridge (M Phil).

Before joining Cambridge, Sinéad lectured in law at Cardiff University and then at University College London. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has won student-led awards for her teaching at both UCL and Cambridge. In 2019 she won an Excellence Award for Legal Teaching from the UCL Faculty of Laws, based on student feedback, and in 2024 she was named Research Supervisor of the Year by the Cambridge University Students Union.

Before becoming an academic, Sinéad practised law for almost a decade, first as a barrister in London and subsequently as a litigation lawyer in Jersey. She is a Barrister (of Gray’s Inn, non-practising), an Associate Member of Serle Court, an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association, a member of the Executive Committee of the Trust Law Committee, and Secretary and Treasurer of the Cambridge Law Journal.