Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter.[1] He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal (the Post Office Project)[2] and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board.[3] He is giving the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases".[4]
Prior to his appointment at Exeter, Moorhead was the first Chair of Law and Professional Ethics and Vice Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL).[5] His work focuses on lawyers, their ethics, regulation and professional competence. He is the co-editor of After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice.[6] and co-author of In-House Lawyers' Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence.
He was elected to a Fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019.[7]
Moorhead is also a poet whose work has been featured in periodicals. His first pamphlet, the Reluctant Vegetarian (Oystercatcher Press) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award.[8] His second, the Word Museum is published by Flarestack Poets and was also shortlisted[9]
Books
edit- Moorhead, Richard, Steven Vaughan, and Cristina Godinho. In-house Lawyers' Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence, Oxford: Hart, 2019. ISBN 9781509905928 [10]
- Moorhead, Richard., ed. After Universalism: Re-engineering Access to Justice. Oxford: Blackwell Publ, 2003. OCLC 249031305
References
edit- ^ Dolor, Sol. "Almost half of in-house counsel asked to advise on ethically problematic organisational actions". Australasian Lawyer. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ "About Us". The Post Office Project. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
- ^ "Horizon Compensation Advisory Board: Terms of Reference" (PDF). www.gov.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "Hamlyn lectures". University of Exeter. 9 August 2024. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
- ^ "Professor Richard Moorhead appointed as Exeter's new Head of Law". Featured News - University of Exeter. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ Moorhead, Richard, and Pascoe Pleasence. After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice. Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2003.
- ^ "UCL academics elected to Academy of Social Sciences". UCL News. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ "The Michael Marks awards for poetry pamphlets shortlist". theguardian.com. 13 May 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "The 2014 Michael Marks Awards: pamphlet shortlist". The Wordsworth Trust. 24 February 2015. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ [1] WorldCat book page
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