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Thesis Title
'Extraterritoriality and corporate crime'
Supervisors
Professor Jeremy Horder and Dr Devika Hovell
Research Interests
Jurisdiction, Criminal Law, International Law, Legal History.
Sam’s doctoral research examines the history of criminal jurisdiction in Anglo-American common law.
He practised for five years at a top-tier law firm in New York, specialising in white-collar criminal defence. Prior to that, he worked in Sydney Australia, on securities class actions.
He has also worked periodically as an independent consultant for both private and public clients on contentious and non-contentious anti-corruption matters.
His work has been published in journals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, and has been cited by appellate courts in Australia and New Zealand, as well as by the House of Lords. He has also been invited to present his research at the OECD Anti-Corruption Conference and at the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
At LSE, he has taught across the LLB and LLM programmes, as well as on intensive summer school courses. His teaching experience covers Criminal Law, Tort Law, Corporate Criminal Law, Introduction to Corporate Governance, and International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration. He has also taught Criminal Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Along with Professor Simon Bronitt and Jordan English, he is the co-author of Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024).