Ms Jen Ang
- Professor in Practice (Law)
email:
Jen.Ang@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
Room 433, Sir Alexander Stone Building, 16 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QL
https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903Biography
Jen Ang was appointed as Professor in Practice in 2024 at the Glasgow Open (GO Justice) Centre, where she is responsible for developing and supervising legal clinical education opportunities for students in social justice law. She is also an Affiliated Researcher with the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Public Policy and an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics
Jen is Founding Director of Lawmanity, a legal practice that tackles inequalities in the law by working with people-led movements to secure positive change, and former co-Founding Director of the human rights and equalities legal charity JustRight Scotland.
She is an experienced human rights lawyer and activist, qualified to practice in Scotland, England and Wales, and New York State, and a legal expert on immigration and asylum, violence against women and girls and the rights of survivors of torture and trafficking. Jen is regularly invited to speak, and contribute to research, policy and publications in these areas.
Jen’s Scottish Government advisory roles include: Member of the First Minister’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls (2022-2026) and Member of the Women’s Justice Leadership Panel (2022).
Her ongoing work to support civil society campaigning and strategic change using the law includes: Chair of the Scottish Strategic Legal Advice Committee (SLAC) of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) (2024- ), Strategic Legal Advisory Board, Black Equity Organisation (2024- ), Legal Advisory Group, Right to Remain (2024- ), Pro Bono Strategic Advisor, East and Southeast Asian (ESA Scotland) and Founding Chair of the Board, Settled (2019-2024).
Research interests
Jen is interested in exploring the relationship between law and social change, and in the role of lawyers and the justice system in amplifying or challenging systemic inequality, and in creating or tackling barriers to progressive social change.
She is also interested in examining the role of clinical legal education in building and teaching anti-racist and anti-oppressive forms of legal practice, and in building connections of mutuality and trust between academic institutions and the communities that host and support them.
Some recent examples of Jen’s work in practice:
- The Lawmanity Podcast – how activists use the law to secure justice for people who are excluded, discriminated against, and overlooked
- The Long View – a LinkedIn blog about activism, resilience and the occasional legal case
- This episode from the University of Glasgow School of Law Podcast – In Conversation with Jen Ang for International Women’s Day 2025, with advice to students on pursuing a career in human rights law
Publications
2026
Ang, Jen 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903 and Elaraby, Fatma
(2026)
Race, migration and the hostile environment.
In: Barker, Kim, O’Shea, Helen and Yaqoob, Talat (eds.)
Building a feminist nation: Scotland in the era of polycrisis.
Scottish Universities Press: Edinburgh, pp. 126-134.
ISBN 9781917341356
(doi: 10.62637/sup.vjuh3718.12)
Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903
(2026)
Defining ‘woman’: the For Women Scotland case, and its troubling legacy for all women, and feminism, in Scotland.
In: Lombard, Nancy (ed.)
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032688169
2025
Dugdale, Kezia, McPhail, Fiona, Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903, Rehman, Satwat and Scott, Marsha
(2025)
University of Glasgow Centre for Public Policy Podcast. Legal Aid Reform: What It Means for Families and Women.
[Audio]
Yasav, Beste and Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903
(2025)
University of Glasgow School of Law Podcast. In Conversation with Jen Ang.
[Audio]
Book Sections
Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903 and Elaraby, Fatma
(2026)
Race, migration and the hostile environment.
In: Barker, Kim, O’Shea, Helen and Yaqoob, Talat (eds.)
Building a feminist nation: Scotland in the era of polycrisis.
Scottish Universities Press: Edinburgh, pp. 126-134.
ISBN 9781917341356
(doi: 10.62637/sup.vjuh3718.12)
Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903
(2026)
Defining ‘woman’: the For Women Scotland case, and its troubling legacy for all women, and feminism, in Scotland.
In: Lombard, Nancy (ed.)
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781032688169
Audio
Dugdale, Kezia, McPhail, Fiona, Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903, Rehman, Satwat and Scott, Marsha
(2025)
University of Glasgow Centre for Public Policy Podcast. Legal Aid Reform: What It Means for Families and Women.
[Audio]
Yasav, Beste and Ang, Jen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2058-3903
(2025)
University of Glasgow School of Law Podcast. In Conversation with Jen Ang.
[Audio]
Prior publications
Other
Jen Ang (2025) Scotland: Bending towards justice? The Baring Foundation Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2025) Three years on: Russia’ war on Ukraine’s forcibly displaced children The Foreign Policy Centre Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2025) Ending Destitution in Scotland: A Road Map for Policymakers Lawmanity, Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) & Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2024) Briefing Report: Rights and Accountability in the UK AASC and AIRE Asylum Contracts – Scoping and Enhancing Sector Plans Lawmanity & Migration Exchange Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2024) Public Interest Litigation in Northern Ireland Lawmanity & Public Interest Litigation Support (PILS) Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2024) Legal Briefing on the Right to Education for Migrant Children and Young People in England Lawmanity & Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation (IRMO) Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2023) The case for a human rights based approach to AI governance Scottish AI Alliance Jen Ang.
Jen Ang, Jen Ang, Jen Ang (2023) Webinar Series: Migrant Rights and Entitlements in Scotland Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) Jen Ang.
Jen Ang (2022) Open Learn: Applying social work law to asylum and immigration The Open University Jen Ang.
Jen Ang, Kerry Musselbrook, Paul Hart (2018) Bringing the law to life with lived experience - User involvement in social work education The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) Jen Ang.
Jen Ang, Jen Ang, Jen Ang (2014) Legal Issues in the Accommodation and Support of Asylum Seeking and Trafficked Children under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 Legal Services Agency Jen Ang.
Book
Jen Ang, Catherine Houlcroft (2023) Guidance for Local Authorities: Migrants’ Rights and Entitlements in Scotland Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and Scottish Government Jen Ang.
Jen Ang, Rebecca Walker, Ruth Mercer, Esther Muchena, Henri Krishna (2020) Benefits for Migrants Handbook Child Poverty Action Group Jen Ang.
Article
Jen Ang (2023) Opinion: Digital developments and practical legal help to disadvantaged and vulnerable groups Journal of the Law Society of Scotland Jen Ang. ISSN 0458-8711
Jen Ang, Jeannette Copperman (2019) Legal View: How we can help vulnerable EU citizens living in the UK Professional Social Work Magazine Jen Ang. ISSN 1352-3112
Jen Ang, Sarah Craig (2016) Hostility Enacted: Immigration Act 2016 and Implications for Scotland Journal of the Law Society of Scotland Jen Ang. ISSN 0458-8711
Book Section
Jen Ang (2019) The Asylum Process for Children and Young People: What Social Workers Need to Know Social Work with Asylum Seekers, Refugee and Undocumented People: Going the Extra Mile Jen Ang. ISBN 9781785923449
Teaching
LAW4155: Access to Justice in Theory and Practice
LAW4219: Racial Justice Clinic
LAW5209: National Human Rights Law
