Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2026

Jess Brown

Thomson Reuters

Kirsten Maslen

Senior Director of Growth & Commercial Strategy at Thomson Reuters

Kirsten Maslen is Senior Director of Growth & Commercial Strategy at Thomson Reuters, where she leads growth planning and commercial strategy for the Legal Professionals Europe business. A former projects lawyer, she moved from private practice to the public sector, advising on PPP and complex outsourcing, before joining Practical Law as an editor on procurement, outsourcing, and public-to-public arrangements. She has since held proposition, product strategy, and marketing roles at Thomson Reuters. Her recent projects include working on the design, development, and testing of AI agents for due diligence and contract compliance.

Kirsty Brimelow KC

Chair of the Bar 2026 at Bar Council of England and Wales

Kirsty Brimelow KC is Chair of the Bar 2026. She practises in criminal, international, and public law from Doughty Street Chambers, where she is on the management board as head of the criminal law team. Kirsty was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2011. She has led in both Civil and Criminal Courts of Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Privy Council, and the European Court of Human Rights. In 2021, Kirsty was appointed a deputy High Court judge in the King’s Bench Division and in 2022 appointed a Recorder. She was the first female Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee (2012 to 2018) and served as the Vice Chair and then Chair of the Criminal Bar Association (2021 to 2023). In 2022, she led negotiations with the government for an increase in fees for criminal barristers. Kirsty is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn and was elected to the management board (2020 to 2023). In 2018, she won both the First 100 Years ‘Inspirational Woman in Law Barrister of the Year’ Award and Advocate’s pro bono ‘International Barrister of the Year’ Award. She is a trustee and director of WWF UK, visiting professor at Goldsmiths Faculty of Law (2019 to 2025), and founding member of the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk.

Lindsey Connett

University of Exeter

Lydia Bleasdale

University of Leeds

Marnie Brown

Monash University

Michael Doherty

Lancaster University

Nigel Duncan

Emeritus Professor at City St George’s, University of London

Obele Akinniranye

Maynooth University

Philip Drake

University of Manchester

Poonam Chudasama

University of Leicester

Professor Richard Moorhead

Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at University College London

Professor Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics and an empirical legal scholar who has worked on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justice. Interdisciplinary in approach, he has worked alongside economists, management scientists, and psychologists, as well as with judges, Parliamentarians, policy-makers, and professional regulators and representatives. He blogs at lawyerwatch and on the Post Office Scandal, and regularly features in professional and national press.

Rachael Campbell

University of Bristol

Robert Dudley

BARBRI

Roddy Cairns

University of Strathclyde

Sally Andersen

Monash University

Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos

Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice for England and Wales at Court of Appeal

Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos has served as Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice for England and Wales since 11 January 2021. He presides over the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal and leads the development of civil procedure and court reform. He chairs the Civil Justice Council, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee, and the Online Procedure Rules Committee, and oversees the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives and the Forum on Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research. Sir Geoffrey also sits on the LawtechUK Panel and chairs both the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce and the International Jurisdiction Taskforce. Internationally, he is First Vice-President of the European Law Institute (from September 2025) and serves on the Steering Group of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts.

Stephen Bunbury

University of Westminster

Verona Ní Drisceoil

University of Sussex

Yue Ang

Brunel University London

Zubair Abbasi

Royal Holloway, University of London