Professor Carl Stychin is Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Professor of Law, in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He began his academic career at Keele University in 1992, and moved to a Professorship at the University of Reading in 1998.

While at Reading, he held various management roles: Head of the School of Law, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Enterprise). Professor Stychin served as Dean of The City Law School, City, University of London, between 2012 and 2018. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2014.

Professor Stychin has wide ranging experience as a non-executive. Currently, he is Chair of the Board of Directors of NCUK (Northern Consortium) Ltd, a lay member of the Health Care Professions Council, and a member of the Board of Governance of Nelson College London. He is an Education Visitor on behalf of both the General Optical Council and the General Pharmaceutical Council. Professor Stychin is also a Lead Assessor for the Office for Students and an advisor to the Costs Lawyer Standards Board.