I am a legal scholar and writer.

I was born and raised on Merseyside, and lived for the better part of a decade in Kanagawa Prefecture, in Japan, where I was a legal translator. I have a PhD in Law from the University of Liverpool, and I am currently Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School.

I am also a Fellow at the Knapp Foundation, where I run the International Research Network on Critical Theory and Conservative Thought.

I am primarily interested in what I see as the central problem of modernity - namely, how the existence of the state is to be justified in the absence of divine right - and its implications for law.  

In my spare time, I run a small publishing firm. I also support Tranmere Rovers and the England cricket team. It can probably be inferred from this that I am a masochist.