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Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law at the University of Kent, and is widely regarded as a leading academic in European Union law, labour/employment law, and equality law. She was awarded the Society of Legal Scholars/Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for her book on European Union employment law and the economics of labour market regulation. In 2020, Diamond was made Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FacSS), for her contribution to social science.

She was previously Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London), Professor of Labour Law at SOAS University of London, and Reader in Law at University College London.

Diamond qualified as a solicitor with trade union firm Robin Thompson and Partners (now Thompsons). She was elected Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple in 2018. She has twice served as a ‘senior expert’ to the project team for a European Commission-funded investigation: a Comparative study on access to justice in gender equality and anti-discrimination law; and an Analysis of the interaction between the EU acquis and ILO Conventions. Diamond has also served as a consultant to trade unions and charities on indidivual employment law and collective labour law; race, sex and disability discrimination law. She is a former Executive Committee Member of the Industrial Law Society.

Since 2023, Diamond has been a Trustee of Black Cultural Archives, the UK’s only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain.

Diamond’s current research focuses on informal and non-standard work (‘zero hours’ contracts, agency work, platform-mediated work); and on the legacies of colonialism for contemporary employment, for which she was awarded a British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2023. She is a current or former member of the editorial committees of European Law Open; Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal; London Review of International Law.

As Professor of law, Diamond teaches and supervises research degrees on employment and equality law, labour migration, human rights law, public law, EU and African Union law, and law and development. Diamond’s academic work has received funding from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the US-EU Fulbright Program, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the Society of Legal Scholars.