Richard Moorhead

Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter.^[1] He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal (the Post Office Project)^[2] and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board.^[3] He is giving the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases".^[4]

Prior to his appointment at Exeter, Moorhead was the first Chair of Law and Professional Ethics and Vice Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Laws at University College London (UCL).^[5] His work focuses on lawyers, their ethics, regulation and professional competence. He is the co-editor of After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice.^[6] and co-author of In-House Lawyers' Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence.

He was elected to a Fellowship in the Academy of Social Sciences in 2019.^[7]

Moorhead is also a poet whose work has been featured in periodicals. His first pamphlet, the Reluctant Vegetarian (Oystercatcher Press) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award.^[8] His second, the Word Museum is published by Flarestack Poets and was also shortlisted^[9]

Books

• Moorhead, Richard, Steven Vaughan, and Cristina Godinho. In-house Lawyers' Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence, Oxford: Hart, 2019. ISBN 9781509905928 ^[10]
• Moorhead, Richard., ed. After Universalism: Re-engineering Access to Justice. Oxford: Blackwell Publ, 2003. OCLC 249031305