Bronwen Morgan

Background

About Bronwen Morgan

I joined UNSW Law School in October 2012, having taught at the University of Bristol, UK for 7 years as Professor of Socio-legal Studies. Prior to Bristol, I taught at the University of Oxford for 6 years in association with the Centre for Socio-legal Studies, and both St Hilda’s College and Wadham College (2002-2005). A very long time ago, I taught at the University of Sydney Law School. I am currently Professor of Law at UNSW Law. My research has long focused on transformations of the regulatory state in both national-comparative and transnational contexts but also extends to exploring the interaction between regulation and socio-economic rights, especially in the context of social activism. More recently, I have brought these lines of interest together in a focus on the 'new economy', especially its variations (often in tension with each other) of the sharing economy, solidarity economy, and commons-based economy. Recent projects include one on access to urban water services in comparative perspective (funded by the UK Economic and Social Sciences Research Council); two projects with Navroz Dubash of the Centre for Policy Studies in India, funded by the International Development Research Centre of Canada (on the rise of the regulatory state in the developing world and on sub-national and local dimensions of climate change policy in developing countries, particularly India and South Africa); and an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on legal and regulatory support structures for social activists and social enterprises responding to climate change in Australia and the UK. My ongoing work is on new legal models for social enterprise and their implications for the legal profession, and two projects conducted as a PLuS Alliance Fellow with Kings College London and Arizona State University: one on urban agriculture and the other on bottom-up participatory approaches to implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.