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Biography

I studied law and sociolegal studies at the LSE, Warwick, and Yale Law School. I took my PhD in sociology at Northwestern University in Chicago under the supervision of Howard Becker, Jack Heinz and Art Stinchcombe. I worked at the American Bar Foundation as a research associate and Indiana University-Bloomington before joining the University of Westminster. I have been an Exxon Fellow in Ethics in the Poynter Center at Indiana University, an Academic Visitor in the Sociology Department at LSE, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and TranState Adjunct Professor at the University of Bremen. I was a Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the University of Miami. I am currently a Visiting Professor of Law at UCL where I coordinate the Law Without Walls programme. Since 2010 I have been a member of the Legal Services Board\\s Research Strategy Group. In 2012 I was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to study the new legal services market.

Research Interest

Barristers\\\' clerks; globalization, law and lawyers; the implications of Clementi on the legal services market and legal education

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