Chris comes from an interdisciplinary academic background. He holds a BA in Economics and Politics from Lancaster University and an MA in Politics from the University of Manchester. He completed his PhD at the Manchester Centre for Political Theory in 2013. Before joining Warwick Law School, he was a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Glasgow and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics and Law at University College London.
Since joining Warwick, Chris has played an active role in the running of Warwick's BA Politics, Philosophy, and Law undergraduate degree. More information about PPL can be found at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ppl.
He is also an active member of Warwick's Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) and is a Chief Editor at the PEA Soup Blog (which CELPA began to run in 2022). More information on CELPA and PEA Soup can be found at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/celpa and https://peasoupblog.com.
Chris teaches topics across contract law, philosophy of private law, and philosophy of law more generally. He has supervised dissertations on topics relating to the philosophy of human rights, philosophy of criminal law, animal rights, bioethics, and ancient legal thought.
