Joseph’s primary field of research is the law relating to consumer/household indebtedness, with a particular focus on personal insolvency law. His doctoral research considers the challenges to traditional personal insolvency principles and doctrines presented in recent decades by the evolving socio-economic and political role of consumer credit and the emergence of the phenomenon of household over-indebtedness. As well as works on personal insolvency law and policy reform, Joseph has also written on consumer credit regulation and the law relating to the enforcement of judgment debts.

Member of the World Bank Task Force on Insolvency and Creditor/Debtor Regimes and contributor to the Report on the Treatment of the Insolvency of Natural Persons. 

Member of the following Research Networks and Associations:

- LSA International Research Collaborative on Household Debt and Insolvency
- INSOL International
- Socio-Legal Studies Association
- European Consortium for Political Research, Standing Group on Regulatory Governance

 

Commercial Contracts: LL202

Property II: LL275

Bankruptcy: The Case for Relief in an Economy of Debt (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

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• 'The Local Austere Creditor' in Saul Schwartz (ed.), Oppressed by Debt: Government and the Justice System as a Creditor of the Poor (Routledge 2022)
• ‘Austerity and financial safety nets: bankruptcy abuse prevention and bank protection in Irish post-crisis policy?’ in Jodi Gardner, Mia Gray, and Katharina Moser (eds.), Debt and Austerity: Implications of the Financial Crisis (Elgar 2020)
• 'Bankruptcy Policy in a Dematerialised Insolvency Law: Glimpses of a Hidden System' (2019) 32 (1) Insolvency Intelligence, 30-37
• 'The Quiet‐Loud‐Quiet Politics of Post‐Crisis Consumer Bankruptcy Law: The Case of Ireland and the Troika' (2018) 81 (5) Modern Law Review 790-824 
• 'Seeking Shelter in Personal Insolvency Law: Recession, Eviction and Bankruptcy’s Social Safety Net' (2017)  Journal of Law and Society 44 (3) pp. 374–405
• 'Recalling The Public Interest in Personal Insolvency Law: A Note on Professor Fletcher's Foresigh' in Burdette et al., Nottingham Insolvency and Business Law eJournal Special Edition Festschrift in Honour of Professor Ian Fletcher QC, 537
• Book Review: 'Comparative Perspectives of Consumer Over‐Indebtedness – A View from the UK, Germany, Greece, and Italy' (Federico Feretti, 2016) (2016) 25 (3) International Insolvency Review 241-244
• 'Fresh Start or Stalemate? European Consumer Insolvency Law Reform and the Politics of Household Debt'  (2013) 21 (3) European Review of Private Law 747-794
• 'Sympathy for the Debtor? The Modernisation of Irish Personal Insolvency Law' (20120 26 (7) Insolvency Intelligence 1
• 'Long Overdue: What the Belated Reform of Irish Personal Insolvency Law tells us about Comparative Consumer Bankruptcy' (2012) 86(2) American Bankruptcy Law Journal 243-304
• 'Enforcement of Court Orders (Amendment) Act 2009' in Clark (ed.) Irish Current Law Statutes Annotated 2009 (Thomson Round Hall, 2010)