I am Professor of Trade Law and Policy. A public international lawyer by backgorund, I research and publish in the field of internatioanl economic law and policy (principally in relation to the World Trade Organization, free trade agreements, and other instruments of trade policy).

I joined Bristol in 2022 as Associate Professor in Law, having previously been Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, and prior to that, Junior Research Fellow in Law at the Queen's College, Oxford. I hold an undergraduate degree in law (LLB Hons) from the University of Edinburgh, and a masters (BCL) and doctorate (DPhil) from the University of Oxford.

Much of my work involves engaging with policy actors: I spent four years working on trade law and policy in the UK government. I have given written and oral evdience to Parliament on trade issues, and sit on the UK Trade & Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group, an indepenedent body monitoring the implementation and enforcement of sustainability commitments in free trade agreements.

I am the co-founder and co-director of the Trade & Public Policy (TaPP) Network, the largest network of academics working on UK trade policy. TaPP links academic expertise to policy actors from government, parliament, civil society, and business.