John Anthony Flood | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Legal academic, sociologist, consultant, legal advisor, author and researcher |
| Academic background | |
| Education | LLB (Law/Economics) LLM by research (Sociolegal Studies) LLM (Law) PhD (Sociology) |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics University of Warwick Yale Law School Northwestern University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Griffith University |
John Anthony Flood is a British and Australian sociologist of law, legal academic, consultant, author and a researcher. He is professor of law and Society at Griffith University and an adjunct professor of law at Queensland University of Technology. Flood is also a research associate at UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies.[1]
Flood has published many articles, chapters and reports, and focuses primarily on the legal profession and the globalization of law along with the impact of technological changes on the practice of law. He is the author of Barristers' Clerks—The Law's Middlemen, The Legal Profession in the United States, What Do Lawyers Do? An Ethnography of a Corporate Law Firm and The Global Lawyer.[2]
Flood was an Exxon Fellow in Ethics at Indiana University-Bloomington from 1988 till 1989, Jean Monnet Fellow at European University Institute from 1990 till 1991 and a Leverhulme Research Fellow from 2012 till 2014.[3]
Flood has blogged since 2005 at John Flood's Random Academic Thoughts (RATs) on law, legal profession, and globalization.