Bronwen Morgan

Associate Research Fellow

Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies in the School of Law at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol, as well as an Associate Fellow of the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1999-2001). She has a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the political economy of regulatory reform, the intersection between regulation and social and economic human rights, and global governance. Her first monograph, Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition (Ashgate 1993) was awarded the Socio-legal Studies Association Early Career Prize in 2004, and a journal article based on this work was awarded the SLSA Article Prize the same year. Other books include Water on Tap: Regulation and Rights in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services (Cambridge 2011); An Introduction to Law and Regulation, with Karen Yeung, (Cambridge 2007) and an edited collection of essays entitled The Intersection of Rights and Regulation (Ashgate 2007). She serves on the editorial boards of Regulation and Governance and Economy and Society, and has served as a Trustee of the Law and Society Association and on the Executive Board of the UK Sociolegal Studies Association.