Faculty of Law
Research on the relationship between law and politics
Email:
drh20@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone:
01223 767 239
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Biography:
- Most recent published work looks at the decline of lawyers in the British House of Commons.
- Law as Engineering proposes a reconceptualisation of law as a design profession concerned not with litigation but with the creation of artificial social structure.
- Currently working on how UK non-judicial officials conceive of the basic norms of the UK constitution and on the politics of public law.
- Has also recently published on the reform of libel law.
- Active as a legal scholar in the field of private law, especially the law of tort.
Research Interests
- Research interests focus on the relationship between law and politics and on the political and other functions of the legal profession.