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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 (my new blog is on this site),
• Academia.edu page
• SSRN.com page
• Twitter feed

If you want to comment or criticise,

• please write in the guestbook
• or you can contact me directly

Students can also find further information on

• Westminster Research Methods (Westminster School of Law)
• Miami Global Lawyering (Miami Law School)
• Professional Responsibility (Miami Law School)

Latest Publications

Legal Education in the Global Context: Challenges from Globalization, Technology and Changes in Government Regulation Report for the Legal Services Board available at Legal Services Board

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 SSRN.com

• Becoming a Cosmopolitan Lawyer (with P. Lederer)
  Published: Fordham Law Review, 2012
  Summary: We track the rise of the cosmopolitan lawyer during the main period of globalization through the experience of an early partner in Baker & McKenzie, the world’s largest and most global law firm. The method is based on oral history. The paper considers two case studies in counseling and advising illustrating the role of the lawyer and clients in the construction of complex deals. In addition, we examine the role of education, career, and cosmopolitanism.
  File size: 191kb, 27 pages
• 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

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