Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1999-2001). She holds a Ph.D. (2000) from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department at the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree (1991) and B.A. in English and French Literature (1988) from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on global governance, especially the role of lawyers, consultants and civil society; regulation, especially in relation to sustainable development, local government and ‘wellbeing’; and the intersection between regulation and socio-economic human rights. Her most recent research project explored private sector participation in water delivery to households, its consequences and the patterns of social protest it generates in six different national contexts.
 
Her 2003 monograph Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics in 2004, and a related article in Social and Legal Studies was joint winner of the 2004 UK Socio-Legal Article Prize. Recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Policy, the European Journal of International Law and Law, Social Justice & Global Development Journal. She has also co-published a textbook entitled An Introduction to Law and Regulation (Cambridge 2007) and edited a collection of essays entitled The Intersection Between Rights and Regulation (Ashgate 2007). Bronwen is a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association, a Trustee of the Law and Society Association, an Editor of the Law in Context book series, and serves on the editorial boards of Regulation and Governance, Economy and Society, and Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.

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