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Welcome to my website. Here you will find information on me, my research and publications. My website makes most of my publications available for free download in PDF format. There is a search facility on the left.
There are also links to other interesting websites including my blog, where I like to try out ideas (summaries are on this site), my page on Academia.edu, and my page on SSRN. I am also on Twitter.
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Students can also find further information on my Westminster Research Methods, Miami Global Lawyering or the Professional Responsibility course for Miami Law School.
Latest Publications
Straight There No Detours: Direct Access to Barristers (with A. Whyte) Full Report for the Bar Council available at: SSRN.com
Report on International Approaches to the Defence of Indigent Persons in Criminal Cases for Lord Carter's Review of Legal Aid Procurement available at: http://www.legalaidprocurementreview.gov.uk/publications.htm or SSRN.com
- Structuring Transactions: The Case of Real Estate Finance (with E. Skordaki)
Published: Contractual Certainty in International Trade, 2009
Summary: A question often posed but rarely satisfactorily answered is: what do lawyers do? In this paper we take the work of real estate finance lawyers and examine how they structure transactions within the cross-border context. For the analysis the key term is structure as it is this that determines the success or failure of a transaction. This places the lawyer in an analogous position to the architect in a construction project. We provide examples of transactions and how they are articulated. This paper is co-authored by a practitioner and an academic.
File size: 443 Kb, 16 pages - Globalisation and Large Law Firms
Published: New Oxford Companion to Law, 2008
Summary: A sociological history of the large law firm in the modern era: how it has adapted to globalisation and the consequent changes and implications for professionalism.
File size: 21 Kb, 5 pages - Lawyers, Law Firms and the Stabilization of Transnational Business (with F. Sosa)
Published: Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, 2008
Summary: Examining cross-border transactions by lawyers through twin lens of Luhmann and Gilson.
File size: 343 Kb, 29 pages - Law Firms
Published: Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, 2007
Summary: A brief social history of the development of the modern law firm, large and small.
File size: 100 Kb, 9 pages
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- My Standup Gig Video on
20th April 2009
You can see a video of my standup gig at the George in Fleet Street here on Youtube. I battle the demons--aliens speaking to me from space, denying me the right to criticize Hawking, Hamas, and black holes! - SLSA Annual Conference 2009 7-9 April on
11th April 2009
The conference is at De Monfort University in Leicester this year. I am organizing the Lawyers and Legal Profession stream - ESRC Seminar on Professions at Lancaster on
30th December 2008
I am speaking at an ESRC funded seminar "Professions and Professionalism in the 21st Century: Meanings, Challenges and Prospects" at Lancaster University on 6 January 2009. Other speakers include: Bob Hinings (Alberta), Stephen Ackroyd (Lancaster), Mike Dent (Staffordshire).