Teaching

Alex teaches criminal law at St Catherine’s College.

About me

Alex studied Law at Oxford – first at St Catherine’s College, then at University College. Alex has taught at various Colleges since 2019.

Alex has been a barrister and member of Red Lion Chambers since 2021, specialising in criminal defence.

Research

Alex’s academic research crosses a number of areas of the law: criminal, discrimination, labour, tort, constitutional and administrative law. In particular, it focuses on the issues of class and classism, traditionally ignored in much legal scholarship. It also addresses other topics, such as political theory, sociology, monarchy, jury trials, gender, protests and free speech.

Selected Publications

‘In Crisis: the “Constitutional” Right to Jury Trial’ (2025) UK Constitutional Law Association (link)

‘Biological Sex in the UK Supreme Court: Four Problems with For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers’ (2025) OHRH Blog (link)

With D. Lock, ‘Universities Should Stop Calling the Police on Peaceful Student Protestors’ (2024) Political Quarterly Blog (link)

‘“Besting Monarchy”: The Anti-Classism Argument’ (2023) The Political Quarterly (link)

‘Is It Time for a Law to Ban Classism?’ (also published as ‘We Prosecute Racists and Sexists. So What about Classists?’) (2023) The Independent (link)

‘Criminalising Constitutional Debate? Anti-Monarchy Protests, Treason and Public Order’ (2023) UK Constitutional Law Association (link)

With D. Young, ‘The Loss or Destruction of Evidence’ in Young, Young, Corker and Summers on Abuse of Process in Criminal Proceedings (2022, 5th edn), pp 80-118

‘Classism as Hate Crime: Proposing Class as a Protected Ground in Criminal Law’ (2021) 10 Criminal Law Review 809

‘The Big Gap in Discrimination Law: Class and the Equality Act 2010’ (2020) 3(1) Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal 30 (link)