I am currently Professor of Biblical Law at the University of Bristol, in the Law School, where I teach Criminal Law and Jurisprudence. I graduated in Law from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1991 and continued my education by graduating with a Master’s degree in Criminology from the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge in 1992. Thereafter, I was recruited by Dr. Michael Schluter to spearhead the Relational Justice project for the Jubilee Centre, a “think and do” tank based in Cambridge. I then sought to develop further resources for thinking biblically about public policy by completing a doctorate in Law, on the subject of biblical law, at the School of Law, University of Liverpool, under Professor Bernard S. Jackson.
Subsequently, I was appointed by the Home Office and the Prison Service England and Wales to head an evaluation of faith-based units in prisons in England and Wales and have since served as Independent Advisor to the Correctional Services Accreditation Panel (Ministry of Justice) and the National Offender Management Service.
I joined the School of Law as Lecturer in 2001, becoming Reader in 2007 and Professor in 2012.