Richard Moorhead

'''Richard Moorhead''' is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.australasianlawyer.com.au/news/almost-half-of-inhouse-counsel-asked-to-advise-on-ethically-problematic-organisational-actions-267804.aspx|title=Almost half of in-house counsel asked to advise on ethically problematic organisational actions|last=Dolor|first=Sol|website=Australasian Lawyer|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> He leads a team working on the British Post Office scandal (the Post Office Project)<ref>{{cite web | title=About Us | website=The Post Office Project | date=August 9, 2024 | url=https://postofficeproject.net/about/ | access-date=August 13, 2024}}</ref> and that work led to Moorhead’s appointment to the Horizon Compensation Advisory Board.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Horizon Compensation Advisory Board: Terms of Reference |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65fd8bf9a6c0f7001aef92c1/horizon-compensation-advisory-board-terms-of-reference.pdf |access-date=14 August 2024 |website=www.gov.uk}}</ref> He gave the 2024 Hamlyn Lectures on "Frail Professionalism: Lawyers’ ethics after the Post Office and other cases".<ref>{{cite web | title=Hamlyn lectures | website=University of Exeter | date=August 9, 2024 | url=https://law.exeter.ac.uk/about/thehamlyntrust/lectures/ | access-date=August 22, 2024}}</ref>

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).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_711417_en.html|title=Professor Richard Moorhead appointed as Exeter's new Head of Law|work=Featured News - University of Exeter|access-date=November 20, 2019}}</ref> His work focuses on lawyers, their ethics, regulation and professional competence. He is the co-editor of '' After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice.''<ref>Moorhead, Richard, and Pascoe Pleasence.'' After Universalism: Re-Engineering Access to Justice.'' Oxford: Blackwell Pub, 2003.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web | title=UCL academics elected to Academy of Social Sciences | website=UCL News | date=March 20, 2019 | url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2019/mar/ucl-academics-elected-academy-social-sciences | access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 May 2010 |title=The Michael Marks awards for poetry pamphlets shortlist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2010/may/12/poetry |access-date=14 August 2024 |website=theguardian.com}}</ref> His second, ''the Word Museum'' is published by Flarestack Poets and was also shortlisted<ref>{{Cite web |website=The Wordsworth Trust |date=24 February 2015 |title=The 2014 Michael Marks Awards: pamphlet shortlist |url=http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetry/poetrypamphlets/mm-shortlist.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507061721/http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetry/poetrypamphlets/mm-shortlist.html |archive-date=7 May 2015 |access-date=14 August 2024}}</ref>

== 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}} <ref>[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1043307871] WorldCat book page</ref> *Moorhead, Richard., ed. '' After Universalism: Re-engineering Access to Justice. '' Oxford: Blackwell Publ, 2003. OCLC 249031305

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==External links== * [http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=RMOOR01 Web page at University College] * ''[http://www.oystercatcherpress.com/rmoorhead.html the Reluctant Vegetarian]'' * [http://www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry.com/index.cgi?id=19 Michael Marks Award] * ''[http://www.flarestackpoets.co.uk/page5.htm the Word Museum]''

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