Daniel Wilsher

Daniel Wilsher is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School. Before coming to City, Daniel was a solicitor and partner in a London law firm. As well as teaching at City, he is a part-time Immigration Judge.

As his first degree, Daniel undertook law and economics going on to work in medical law and ethics before training to become a solicitor. He moved into academia in 2000 after taking an LLM in European Law and went on to take a PhD at the leading Centre for Migration Law, Radboud University, Njimegen in 2009

Daniel was a member of the Law Society Panel on immigration law and has conducted important cases in this field up to Court of Appeal level. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants and a member of the Transparency International (UK) a leading anti-corruption charity.

He teaches and researches in the fields of public, competition, energy, EU and immigration law. Daniel's book on detention of immigrants, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, is the first study of this important issue. He has made a special study of immigration detention and his work has been cited in cases by the House of Lords, the UK's highest court and the Australia's highest court. He is currently publishing research on the links between law and the Eurozone economic crisis.