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I joined Leicester Law School as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in September 2017 and took up a lectureship in January 2021. I previously practiced law with Linklaters LLP in London and Singapore and lectured at Singapore Management University. I hold a BA from the University of Virginia, a JD cum laude from Georgetown University, an LLM with merit from the London School of Economics and a PhD in Law from the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. I am a non-practicing member of the New York Bar and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Arwen Joyce, 'Reducing worker exploitation in time-limited, low-wage visa schemes: lessons from South Korea and Thailand' (2024) 53 Industrial Law Journal 1, available at https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwad035.

Arwen Joyce and Bernard Ryan, 'Migration and Exploitation in Employment: Editorial Introduction' (2024) 53 Industrial Law Journal 1, available at https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwad037.

Arwen Joyce, Article 8 ECHR, Family Reunification and the UK's Supreme Court: Family Matters? (2024) 38(1) Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law 108.

Maribel Canto-Lopez, Arwen Joyce, and Nataly Papadopoulou, 'Legal Skills for Citizens of Change Conference at Â鶹ÊÓƵ explores legal skills from multiple perspectives' (2023) Association of Law Teachers Blog, available at http://lawteacher.ac.uk/alt-blog-2/.

Victoria Ball, Arwen Joyce and Charlotte Mills, A Small Group Teaching Best Practice Guide Grounded in the Student Voice (Association of Law Teachers 2023) http://lawteacher.ac.uk/about/alt-publications/ (accessed 19 February 2024).

Arwen Joyce et al, 'SLSA Precarious Employment Survey Report' (2023) Socio-legal Studies Association, https://slsa.ac.uk/index.php/news/socio-legal-publications-2?id=419 (accessed 19 February 2024).

Victoria Ball and Arwen Joyce, 'A Teaching Best Practice Guide for Early Career Academics in UK Law Schools Grounded in the Student Voice' (2022) 3 European Journal of Legal Education 69.

Arwen Joyce, Becoming a critical thinker (2021) 55 The Law Teacher 559.

Victoria Ball, Arwen Joyce and Charlotte Mills, '"They Just Have More of a Vibe of Being 'One of Us'": Undergraduate Law Student Perceptions of PhD Tutors' (2020) 54 The Law Teacher 327.

Arwen Joyce, '#VirtualSLSA2020: South Korea's Employment Permit System: Policy Innovations and Power Dynamics' (2020) Socio-Legal Studies Association Blog, available at http://slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/south-koreas-employment-permit-system-policy-innovations-and-power-dynamics/.

Arwen Joyce, 'Working Across Borders: The Limits of Labour Law for Low-Wage Temporary Migrant Workers' (2019) 5 Revista Estudos Institucionais 699.

Tamar Ezer, Arwen Joyce, Priscila McCalley and Neil Pacamalan, 'Protecting Women's Human Rights: A Case Study in the Philippines' (2011) 18 [3] Human Rights Brief 21.

Arwen Joyce and Tracye Winfrey, 'Taming the Red Dragon: A Realistic Assessment of the ABA's Legal Reform Efforts in China' (2004) 17 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 887.

Undergraduate

• Immigration Law
• Tort Law

Postgraduate LLM

• International Migration and Refugee Law

• 'Best lecturer for first year', Leicester University Law Society Awards 2024.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ CSSAH Teaching Development Fund: £2,019 (Jan 2024) Project to investigate the positivity gap between Black students and white students at Leicester Law School.
• Student Experience Champion, Â鶹ÊÓƵ Citizens’ Awards 2023.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ CSSAH Teaching Development Fund: £1750 (Feb 2022) Funding to put on a film screening and awards event to showcase films made by Analysing Law students.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ CSSAH Teaching Development Fund and Leicester Law School Research Funding: £1,608 (Feb 2022) Funding to carry out empirical research assessing the role of professional skills in a law degree.
• Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Funding: £2,460 (May 2022) Funded research exchange to the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Modern Law Review Seminar Fund: £1,591 (Jan 2020) With Professor Bernard Ryan. Funding to host a one-day workshop at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ titled 'Migration and Exploitation in Employment: Concepts, Designs and Responses'.
• Association of Law Teachers Research Grant: £1,000 (Aug 2019) With Vicki Ball and Charlotte Mills. Funding to carry out empirical research on effective law tutorial delivery and disseminate results.
• Chris Gale Memorial Prize for Best Joint Paper: £250 (Apr 2019) With Vicki Ball and Charlotte Mills. Awarded for the best joint paper presented at the Association of Law Teachers Conference 2019.

• Arwen Joyce, ‘What drives different regulatory approaches to low-wage migrant worker visa schemes?’, WINIR Workshop on Regulation and the Common Good, University of Sheffield (October 2023)
• Arwen Joyce, ‘Assessing the benefits and limitations of a government-managed approach to low-wage labour migration in South Korea and Thailand’, Labour Law Research Network Conference 6, Panel on Resilience and Migrant Workers, Warsaw (June 2023)
• Arwen Joyce, ‘Assessing the benefits and limitations of a government-managed approach to low-wage labour migration in South Korea and Thailand’, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Managing and Protecting People on the Move Stream, Ulster University, Derry (April 2023)
• Arwen Joyce, ‘Assessing the Role of Professional Skills in a Law Degree: An empirical study’, Legal Skills for Citizens of Change, Â鶹ÊÓƵ (December 2022)
• Arwen Joyce, ‘Assessing the impact of a government-managed approach to low-wage labour migration in South Korea and Thailand’, Migration and Exploitation in Employment Workshop: Concepts, Designs and Responses, Â鶹ÊÓƵ (September 2022)
• Arwen Joyce, ‘Protecting migrant workers’ rights in court: a comparative analysis of decisions from the Singapore Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of South Korea’, SLS-sponsored Collaborative Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers in Labour Law, Migration & Asylum, Human Rights, and Public Law, University of Bristol (July 2022)
• Arwen Joyce, 'An ethical assessment of temporary migrant worker programmes that foregrounds migrant workers and their interests', Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Managing and Protecting People on the Move Stream, York University (Apr 2022)
• Arwen Joyce, 'Migration law perspective: Prioritising migrant workers' interests in low-wage temporary migrant worker programme policy reform', Symposium on Agency, Community, Kinship: Representatives of Migration Beyond Victimhood, University of Wuppertal (Feb 2022)
• Arwen Joyce, 'A typology of low-wage temporary migrant worker programmes in East and Southeast Asia', Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Managing and Protecting People on the Move Stream, Cardiff University (Apr 2021)
• Arwen Joyce, 'Low-Wage Migrant Workers in South Korea: Policy Innovations and Power Dynamics' Society of Legal Scholars Graduate Conference, University of Exeter (September 2020)
• Arwen Joyce, 'The limits of labour law and low-wage temporary migrant workers in Asia' Society of Legal Scholars Conference, Migration Law Stream, University of Central Lancashire (Sept 2019)
• Arwen Joyce, 'The law and low-wage migrant workers in Asia' TWC2 Research Forum, Singapore Management University (Aug 2019)
• Arwen Joyce, 'Working across borders: labour law theory and low-wage migrant workers' Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, Exploring Legal Borderlands Stream, University of Leeds (Apr 2019)