She has a PhD from the University of London, a LLM degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Thouron scholar and a BA(Hons) from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a Modern Law Review Scholarship during her PhD. Before undertaking her PhD, she qualified as a solicitor and practised in a City law firm. In previous teaching roles, she has taught debt finance, civil litigation, legal methods and writing and public law. Her current and ongoing research interests relate to the use of private law in the international markets, with a particular focus on the use of standard form contracts. Email: j.p.braithwaite@lse.ac.uk