Michael McKenzie, The Clerk of the Central Criminal Court (the Old Bailey) between 1979-84.
On Thursday April 7th, I had the pleasure of presenting a paper at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference at Lancaster University with a fascinating panel of speakers. Professor David Sugarman discussed his work on the life of Alfred William Brian Simpson QC, a British legal historian; and Dr Jessie Hohmann explored the notion of writing the history of objects in international law. I spoke about my current doctoral research on the work and lives of court clerks in Crown Courts in collaboration with the Legal Biography Project at the London School of Economics (LSE) and National Life Stories at the British Library. It is very exciting to be engaged in a new field of research, and extend the boundaries of the traditional approach to legal life writing which has tended to document the lives of the elite, particularly white male judges and barristers. The Legal Biography Project at the LSE is specifically interested in marginalised voices in the world of law, and discovering more about the myriad of ways in which the law is lived and experienced.
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