(How) can we develop practical ethics from particular scandals: Academics’ Logics and the Case of the Post Office
Richard Moorhead is an empirical legal scholar who has worked on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justice. Interdisciplinary in approach, he has worked alongside economists, management scientists, and psychologists in such work, as well as with judges, Parliamentarians, policy-makers, and, professional regulators and representatives.
He has led many research projects on lawyers’ ethics (for instance his 2018 book is on the Ethics of In-house Lawyers, with Vaughan and Godhino); litigants in person; quality in legal aid; the effects of funding regimes on lawyer behavior; and, legal aid reform (community legal services, public defenders and contracting in particular).
Date: 8 November 2021, 16:30 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Speaker: Professor Richard Moorhead (Exeter University)
Organising department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Organiser: Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: admin@csls.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Part of: Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Alison Trinder