My research examines labour law from European, comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. I have particular expertise in UK and German labour law, industrial relations and labour law history. I held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2022-2024 for a project entitled ‘Revealing the Importance of Ideas: The Intellectual History of Labour Law’. The project compared the different debates taking place on worker representation on company boards in German and British intellectual circles at a critical historical juncture in the 1940s. It used these debates as a case study to trace the movement of legal ideas across national boundaries, and to explore alternative narratives which have escaped legal attention. Building on this project, I am currently researching the (legal) history of industrial democracy in the UK.

I have broad experience of teaching across a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate subjects, including EU law, labour/employment law, commercial law, delict (tort) and Scots contract law.

I am a member of the editorial board of Historical Studies in Industrial Relations (Liverpool University Press), the book review editor of the Industrial Law Journal (Oxford University Press), and a member of the Research Committee of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London). Together with Prof Elaine Fahey and Dr Fabien Terpan, I coordinate the EUFutures research network funded by UACES and the John Madison Charitable Trust (2022-2025). In 2025-2026, I will be a Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (University of London).