LSE’s private lawyers have been appointed to a variety of public and professional and academic roles, such as the following recent examples:
Public and professional
- Joe Spooner has acted as independent academic chair of a series of stakeholder workshops for the UK Insolvency Service’s Personal Insolvency Review
- Sarah Paterson has been appointed as a member and Vice President of the Insolvency Lawyers' Association; a member of the International Insolvency Institute; and an academic member of the R3 Technical Committee, the trade association for business recovery professionals
- Sarah Worthington holds various board roles in the charity and research sectors, currently including The British Museum. She is a Barrister and Bencher of Middle Temple and an Academic Member of South Square Chambers, Gray’s Inn, and KC (honoris cause). In 2020 she was awarded a DBE (Dame Commander Order of the British Empire) for services to private law
- Michael Bridge is a qualified barrister, Bencher of the Middle Temple and KC (honoris causa). He has been active in a number of advisory boards and working groups, past and present, concerned with international uniform law
Academic
- Tim Liau and Rachel Leow have become the co-convenors of the Restitution Section for the Society of Legal Scholars, the major learned society for academic lawyers in the UK
- Sarah Worthington has been appointed Chair of LSE Press
- Sarah Paterson has been appointed as a visiting scholar at the University of Stockholm
- Paul MacMahon has been a Visiting Professor at Católica Global School of Law in Lisbon, and a Visiting Lecturer at British Law Centre based in Warsaw
- Nick Sage has been a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, the University of Auckland, and the University of Cambridge
Tim Liau has been appointed as an academic fellow at the Centre for Legal Theory, National University of Singapore