Ben Warwick joined Birmingham Law School in 2016 as Lecturer in Law, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2020, and Reader in 2021.

He was Head of Education and Deputy Head of School (Education) between 2020 and 2022. He became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2015. He previously taught at Durham University during his three years as Graduate Teaching Assistant there.

He holds an LLB degree from Durham University, and an LLM in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham.

Ben’s research interests lie within the broad field of human rights law. A primary strand of this research are the issues surrounding resource constraints and the implementation of economic and social rights. Working primarily with the international human rights framework, he has researched the circumstances in which 'backwards steps' (or ‘retrogression’) in rights protection might be taken. This research is particularly applicable to situations of crisis and where resource constraints occur through natural and economic disasters.

He has also undertaken research projects on, for example, the general obligations of the ICESCR, the performance of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the right to food in the UK, neoliberalism, theories of emergency, and the right to education in armed conflict.