Frances Foster-Thorpe

 

 

 

 

 

Contact details

Frances.foster-thorpe@law.ox.ac.uk

 

Qualifications

Arts(Hons)/LLB (UNSW, 2005)

MSt (Oxford, 2010)

 

Biography

Frances joined the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies after clerking for the Hon JJ Spigelman, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and teaching at UNSW Law School. She is a Commonwealth scholar at Corpus Christi College.

Frances’ DPhil project examines the operation of various governance mechanisms found in contemporary environmental regulation. In particular, Frances researches the regulation of the Murray-Darling Basin in Eastern Australia. Her work is interdisciplinary, drawing on, and seeking to contribute to, scholarship in regulation, public law and public administration. She has been a visiting scholar at Yale Law School and Reg-Net (Australian National University).

 

Research Interests

• Regulation
• The relationship between public law and public administration
• The role of the social sciences in public policy making

 

Supervisor

Dr Bettina Lange