Mr A. Thompson

I am studying the way legal doctrine evolves alongside society, specifically the doctrines of contract law and intellectual property. The goal is to produce a model which can explain the disconnect between legal change and societal shifts; or, colloquially, how the legal system runs on so-called 'law time.' The period can only be the 19th - first, because it's so interesting, second, because of all the information available to produce a full model, and third because my funding depends on my subject remaining within legal history. Tort law has already been covered by my supervisor, Professor Ibbetson, and coincidentally I will be applying a similar model to his when looking at contract and IP law. It's sure to be a blast!