Megan Johnson LLB (Hons), LLM

Megan Johnson has been a Lecturer in Law at the University of Greenwich since 2024. Prior to joining the School of Law, Megan was undertaking her PhD in Law at the University of Bristol funded by a scholarship. While completing her doctoral thesis, Megan taught Criminal Law, Criminal Evidence, and International Criminal Law at the University of Bristol and the University of Southampton.

Megan is an interdisciplinary sexual violence scholar whose work is informed by Black and indigenous feminist theory and critical race theory. Routinely, the problem of rape is weaponised by political and legal actors in ways that perpetuate racialised myths and narratives which, in turn, undermines the efficacy of rape law’s operationalisation. To locate and challenge this, her research primarily evaluates the role of race in English and Welsh rape law and criminal justice responses thereto. She has also published in other areas of gender-based violence including domestic violence, sexual violence in conflict, image-based sexual abuse, human trafficking, and abusive pornography.