Professor of Law, University of York, UK
Jenny joined York Law School in July 2008, having previously been a Professor of Law at the University of Southampton, and having worked at Southampton since 1990. She studied Jurisprudence at Jesus College, Oxford, and holds an LLM from the University of Bristol. She qualified as a Solicitor in 1989.
Jenny is the author of Risks and Legal Theory, published by Hart Publishing in 2004 and winner of the Peter Birks/SLS Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, 2004; and of Jenny Steele, Tort Law: Text, Cases and Materials (2nd ed, Oxford, 2010). She is one of the editors of Clerk and Lindsell on Torts, commencing with the 20th edition (Thomson Reuters, 2010), and has recently co-edited a collection of essays with Willem van Boom: Mass Justice: Challenges of Representation and Distribution (Edward Elgar, 2011). Jenny is currently editing a volume with TT Arvind, Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute, and the Dynamics of Legal Change, to be published by Hart Publishing in 2012. (A workshop for contributors to this volume was held in York in May 2011, generously supported by a British Academy Small Grant.) Jenny was a contributing editor to Tim Jewell and Jenny Steele, Law in Environmental Decision-Making (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998), and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.
From 1 October 2011, Jenny is the holder of a three year Major Research Fellowship awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, under the title Liability, Insurance and Society: the Politics and Economy of Private Law. For more details of current research, visit her page on academia.edu.