She was educated at Oxford (B.A.) and St. Andrews (M. Litt., PhD). From 2000-2011, she taught at the University of Calgary, Canada; in 2007-2008 she held a Fellowship at the Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane. Her book Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law (OUP, 2012) won Honorable Mention for the American Philosophical Association Book Prize and is under contract to be translated into Japanese. She has edited a collection of essays on the future of marriage, After Marriage (OUP, 2016), and co-edited Philosophical Foundations of Children's and Family Law (OUP, 2018). She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Philosophy.