Profile

Richard is a lecturer in corporate law at Lancaster University. His principal research interests concern financial regulation, company law, and corporate governance. His other research interests include climate policy, AI, and legal pedagogy. He has presented widely in these and related fields. This includes presentations at the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, Institute of Humane Studies, McKinsey & Company, the Social Legal Studies Association, and the Art of Management & Organisation conference, as well as at leading universities such as Oxford, King’s College London, Virginia, and Brock.

Richard has provided expert analysis for wider audiences during live and recorded interviews with the media, including BBC Radio Merseyside, BBC North West Today, and BBC North West Tonight. He has also provided written evidence to the UK Parliament. This includes evidence on stablecoin regulation, which the House of Lords Financial Services & Regulation Committee cited in its .

Richard has won research grants from the Society of Legal Studies, the Institute for Humane Studies, and LJMU. His published work has been cited by, among others, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Seattle University Law Review, and the Washington University Law Review.

Richard is a founding co-managing editor of the . He is also a former associate editor of the .

Richard holds, or has held, fellowships at the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University (as a Humane Studies Fellow and Bernard Marcus Fellow), Advance HE, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is also a Certified Management & Business Educator, SPRITE+ Expert Fellow, Trustee of Irish Community Care, and an Associate of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and the Law.

Also holding teaching awards, including a Vice-Chancellor Teaching Excellence Award, Richard convenes the undergraduate elective: Business Law in Practice. He supervises research students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and welcomes email supervision enquiries. One of Richard’s teaching-based focuses is on developing innovative pedagogy, such as game-based learning. He has also written and presented on this subject.

During his studies, Richard received many academic prizes and scholarships. Richard completed the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) at the University of Oxford, graduating in the top five of his cohort with a Distinction. His dissertation, supervised by Professor Paul Davies, was awarded a Charles Koch Foundation Dissertation Award. Richard also read law (LLB) at Liverpool John Moores University, graduating top of his year with a First, winning the Liverpool Law Society Prize. On the strength of his postgraduate dissertation and academic performance, he was subsequently awarded a Bernard Marcus Fellowship at the Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University.