Previous General Editors:
Lord Chorley, vols 1–33 (1937–70)
Lord Wedderburn, vols 34–51 (1971–88)
Professor Simon Roberts, vols 51–58 (1988–95)
Professor Tim Murphy, vols 58–65 (1995–2002)
Professor Martin Loughlin, vols 66–70 (2003–07)
Professor Hugh Collins, vols 71–76 (2008–13)
Professor Julia Black, vols 77–81 (2013–18)
Professor David Kershaw, vols 81–85 (2018–22)
Thomas's research focuses on public law, constitutional theory, and the history of law and empire. His most recent book is Reason of State: Law, Prerogative and Empire (CUP, 2015).
General Editor
Tanya specialises in intellectual property law and has published widely on copyright, digital technologies and trade secrets. She is the co-author of Gurry on Confidence (OUP, 2012) and two leading intellectual property textbooks: Intellectual Property Law (OUP, 2016) and Intellectual Property (Sweet and Maxwell, 2013).
Articles Editor
Jacco's main fields of interest are comparative law and conflict of laws. His recent publications include a monograph, Balancing Constitutional Rights (CUP, 2013) and the edited collection Practice and Theory in Comparative Law (CUP, 2012, with Maurice Adams).
Cases Editor
Jo specialises in international commercial financial law, with particular research interests in the use of private law and standard form contracts in international markets. Her article on standard form contracts in transnational law won the 2013 Wedderburn Prize (shared with Kirsty Hughes), and during her doctoral studies Jo received a Modern Law Review Scholarship.
Committee Member
Tatiana’s research focuses on private law (contracts, equity, property and unjust enrichment), monetary theory, and various issues in law and technology. Tatiana received the 2016 Wedderburn Prize for her article 'Tracing, Value and Transactions'.
Cases Editor
Dev's research focuses on intellectual property, with particular emphasis on branding, trade marks, geographical indications and copyright. Before joining Oxford Law in 2013, Dev was a senior lecturer at LSE Law.
Committee Member
Conor's current research interests include terrorism, human rights and civil liberties. His recent books include Liberty and Security (Polity, 2013), The Meanings of Rights (CUP, 2014, edited with Costas Douzinas) and On Fantasy Island: Britain, Strasbourg and Human Rights (OUP, 2016).
MLR Forum Editor
Kate's main fields of interest are legal philosophy, criminal law theory, and medical law and ethics. To date, she has published widely on the law and ethics of abortion. She is the author of Arguments about Abortion (OUP, 2017) and the co-author of Abortion Rights: For and Against (CUP, 2017). Before joining Oxford Law in 2018, Kate was a lecturer in law at University College London.
Reviews Editor
Jeremy graduated from the Universities of Hull (1984) and Oxford (1986) before taking up a Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford, from 1987-1989. He then became the Porjes Trust Tutorial Fellow in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, from 1989-2010. He was Chairman of Oxford’s Faculty of Law from 1998-2000. From 2005-2010, he was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, with responsibility for criminal law reform, before becoming Edmund Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King’s College London, from 2010-2013. He is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple and holds an Honorary LL.D from the University of Hull.
Committee Member
David has been General Editor of the Modern Law Review since September 2018. David's research focuses on corporate law, takeover regulation and accounting regulation. His recent publications include The Foundations of Anglo-American Corporate Fiduciary Law (CUP, 2018) and Principles of Takeover Regulation (OUP, 2016).
Committee Member
Andrew specialises in public international law with a focus on international economic law. His current work focuses on themes in global economic governance, and his most recent book is World Trade Law after Neoliberalism (OUP, 2011).
Cases Editor
Michael's research focuses on the theory and practice of the common law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is currently working on an edition on the first English treatise on contract law for the Selden Society and on the idea of the rule of law in nineteenth century Britain.
Company Secretary
Orla teaches and researches in the areas of data protection, technology regulation, digital rights, and EU law. Her book, The Foundations of EU Data Protection Law, was published by OUP in 2015. Orla was the recipient of an MLR scholarship while completing her PhD research at the University of Cambridge.
Committee Member
Virginia's work focuses on human rights and labour law, including the theoretical and legal aspects of social and labour rights, the right to work, privacy, domestic labour, workers' exploitation and modern slavery. She is the author of Debating Social Rights (Hart, 2011, with Conor Gearty) and editor of The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Hart, 2015).
Articles Editor
Vanessa is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her research is informed by feminist theory, and with funding from the ESRC, Leverhulme, Nuffield Foundation and British Academy, she has published widely on law and policy responses to sexual offences and gender-based violence.
Reviews Editor
Donal's research focuses on tort, in particular the law of negligence, private nuisance and the interface between tort and public law. He has also written on a range of topics in contract law, including offer and acceptance, estoppel and termination for breach.
Committee Member
Sarah is an associate professor of corporate insolvency. Before joining LSE she was a partner in Slaughter and May in London, with whom she retains a consultancy.
Committee Member
Paul teaches and researches in the fields of evidence and proof, forensic science, comparative criminal justice and criminal jurisprudence. His most recent book is The Integrity of Criminal Process (Hart, 2016, co-edited with Jill Hunter Simon N M Young, and David Dixon).
Committee Member
Sangeeta’s research focuses on human rights law and practice, both domestic and international. She is a co-author of Private International Law and Human Rights (OUP, 2016) and is co-editor of the leading textbook: International Human Rights Law (OUP, 2018).
Legislation Editor
Emmanuel’s research focuses mostly on the theory of private law and public international law. He is the author of Private Law and the Value of Choice (Hart, 2017).
Articles Editor
Grégoire's research focuses on human rights, public law and the philosophy of law. He is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen's University (Canada) and is Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE.
Articles Editor