Dr Senara Eggleton

Senara Eggleton is the Yates Glazebrook Fellow in Law at Jesus College.

Her primary research interest lies in commercial contract law, specifically insurance and reinsurance law. She supervises the Law Tripos papers Law of Tort and Law of Contract.

Academic interests

Senara’s academic interests include:

• Reinsurance law
• Non-marine insurance law – commercial risks and liability
• Marine insurance law and shipping
• Insurance regulation
• Tort law.

Degrees obtained

• LLB (Hons), Exon.
• LLM, KCL.
• PhD, KCL.

Awards and prizes

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2023.

Biography

Senara Eggleton is the Yates Glazebrook Fellow in Law and Director of Studies in Law at Jesus College. She specialises in commercial contract law, specifically all aspects of insurance and reinsurance law.

Originally from Sussex and later raised in South Cornwall, Senara read law as her first degree at the University of Exeter. She subsequently moved to London to read a Masters in International Business Law at King’s College London, where she stayed to complete her doctoral research in reinsurance law.

Previously, Senara was a Visiting Lecturer in Tort Law at King’s College London (2021-24) and a Teaching Fellow at Queen Mary University of London (2021-22).

Senara has presented and published her research widely. She is a member of the Reinsurance Working Party, Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances, and the British Insurance Law Association. Current projects include working on the publication of her thesis as a monograph.

Other interests

Cooking and baking, hiking and swimming, trips to the coast.