Welcome
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
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
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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- New Paper on Ethics in Transnationa Lawyering Uploaded on
17th August 2010
This book chapter is available under the "In Progress" button on the left or at SSRN - Straight There, No Detours: Direct Access to Barristers on
7th July 2010
This article has just been published by the International Journal of the Legal Profession. You can download it now from publications at left. - New Paper "From Ethics to Regulation" on
20th April 2010
I have put a new paper on the website under the "In Progress" button on the left, and it's also available on SSRN.com.