Dr Benedict Turner
SFHEA FRSA MIoD
Lecturer in Law
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I am a Lecturer in Law at Cardiff, having joined as a tutor in 2019. I am module lead or co-lead and lecturer on Equity and Trusts, Company Law, Law and Technology and International Investment Law.
I am the School of Law and Politics' Director of Digital Education and the Law Department's Head of the 3rd Year LLB.
My research interests and areas of expertise are: law and technology; personal property law; equity and trusts law; legal pedagogy; company law (particularly around capital markets); international securities law and frameworks; and international investment law. My epistemological background is the economic analysis of law. This looks at law through the lens of economic efficiency and utility in order to bring about wider benefits to society as a whole.
I am very happy to consider supervising PhD and MPhil theses, as well as LLB and LLM dissertations, in my fields of expertise or similar areas. If you wish to discuss this, please do get in touch.
Publication
2024
- Turner, B. 2024. Facilitating dialogic learning via response technology in undergraduate law lectures. Project Report. CamTree.
- Turner, B. 2024. Digital skills in legal education. In: Jones, E., Bradney, A. and Cownie, F. eds. Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Legal Education. Elgar
- Turner, B. 2024. Dialogic lectures: revitalising lectures and enhancing legal skills through digital technology. Presented at: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2024, University of Portsmouth, 26-28 March 2024.
- Turner, B. 2024. Redefining “Possession” in Law: digital objects and Hegelian Personhood Theory. Presented at: Legal Tech and the Rule of Law, 12 February 2024.
2022
- Turner, B. 2022. Legal education and the benefit of socio-legal interdisciplinary studies.. Presented at: Law, Education and Society Conference, Cardiff, UK, 9 June 2022.
2021
- Turner, B. 2021. The rise and fall of trust based intermediated securites: An economic jurisprudential approach to trust based intermediated securities. PhD Thesis, University of London.
- Turner, B. 2021. A peek behind the curtain: Beneficial ownership and transparency in intermediated securities holdings. Presented at: Inaugural International Financial Regulation Symposium, October 2021 Presented at Turner, B. ed.
2020
- Law Commission of England and Wales, . and Turner, B. 2020. Intermediated securities: Who owns your shares? A scoping paper. London: The Law Commission. Available at: https://lawcom.gov.uk/document/intermediated-securities-scoping-paper/
Book sections
- Turner, B. 2024. Digital skills in legal education. In: Jones, E., Bradney, A. and Cownie, F. eds. Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Legal Education. Elgar
Conferences
- Turner, B. 2024. Dialogic lectures: revitalising lectures and enhancing legal skills through digital technology. Presented at: Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference 2024, University of Portsmouth, 26-28 March 2024.
- Turner, B. 2024. Redefining “Possession” in Law: digital objects and Hegelian Personhood Theory. Presented at: Legal Tech and the Rule of Law, 12 February 2024.
- Turner, B. 2022. Legal education and the benefit of socio-legal interdisciplinary studies.. Presented at: Law, Education and Society Conference, Cardiff, UK, 9 June 2022.
- Turner, B. 2021. A peek behind the curtain: Beneficial ownership and transparency in intermediated securities holdings. Presented at: Inaugural International Financial Regulation Symposium, October 2021 Presented at Turner, B. ed.
Monographs
- Turner, B. 2024. Facilitating dialogic learning via response technology in undergraduate law lectures. Project Report. CamTree.
- Law Commission of England and Wales, . and Turner, B. 2020. Intermediated securities: Who owns your shares? A scoping paper. London: The Law Commission. Available at: https://lawcom.gov.uk/document/intermediated-securities-scoping-paper/
Thesis
- Turner, B. 2021. The rise and fall of trust based intermediated securites: An economic jurisprudential approach to trust based intermediated securities. PhD Thesis, University of London.
Research
I am a specialist in the intersection of technology and the law, and am currently researching this in several fields.
1) I am researching the use of technology in the context of legal education. I am researching how this can help foster critical legal skills in students and enhance the student experience.
2) I am also researching the imposition of technology as a disruptor in the area of property, particularly personal property. I am looking at how traditional concepts of property may be altered through the development of novel digital properties and their effect both in law and in practice.
My research is underpinned by jurispridential considerations. The chief epistemologies I utilise are economic analysis (including both Mills'/Bentham's utilitarianism and Coase's/Posner's wealth maximisation), and Hegel's Personhood Theory.
Teaching
LLM -
Module Lead: International Investment Law; Critical Skills
Tutor: Dissertation Supervision
LLB-
Module Lead: Law and Technology; Company Law; Equity and Trusts
Tutor: Dissertation Supervison.
Biography
Qualifications:
Downing College, University of Cambridge, MEd, 2023 (Merit, 70%+)
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, PhD, 2021
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, LLM, 2018 (Distinction)
University of Law, MSc., 2016 (Commendation)
Cardiff University, GDL, 2015
Cardiff University, BA (Joint Hons.), Ancient History and Religious Studies, 2014 (2:1)
Honours and awards
Funding
February 2024 - £300 to run the second annual Law and Robotics Workshop.
February 2023 - £500 to set up and run a weekend Law and Robotics Workshop.
April 2022 - £4000 award from the Centre for Law and Society to convene the inaugural conference on Law, Education and Society.
Programmes
British Academy, Early Career Researcher, Encourage and Engage Programme - invitee
Professional memberships
Fellowships and Executive Memberships:
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Executive Committee Member of the Association of Law Teachers.
Editorships and Peer Reviewer Memberships:
Editor, Learning Resource Reviews, The Law Teacher
Peer Review College, The Law Teacher
South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnerships Reviewer College
Professional Memberships:
Member of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
Member of the Institute of Directors
Member of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Member of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies
Member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association
Member of the Association of Law Teachers
Member of the Society of Legal Scholars
Academic positions
2021 - Present: Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
2019 - 2021: Module Convenor and Tutor, LLM International Investment Law, Cardiff University
2019 - 2021: Tutor, LLB Equity and Trusts, and LLB Company Law, Cardiff University
2019: Module Convenor, LLM International Investment Law, University of Reading
Speaking engagements
Speaker - "Dialogic Lectures: Revitalising Lectures and Enhancing Legal Skills Through Digital Technology" - SLSA Annual Conference - Southampton - 2024
Convenor and Speaker - Association of Law Teachers Workshop on Teaching Law & Technology - London - 2024
Speaker - "Redefining Possession in Law: Digital Objects and Hegelian Personhood Theory" - Legal Technology and the Rule of Law Conference - TUS Athlone, Ireland - 2024
Convenor and Speaker - Centre for Law and Society, Cardiff University Annual Conference - Law, Education and Society - June 2022
Invitee - 'Reform of the Listing Rules', CLC Corporate Law Conference, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University - January 2022
Invited Speaker - Centre for Financial Regulation, Insititie of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London - Conference: Financial Crime: Challenges and Responses - October 2021
Invited Speaker - ‘Financial institutions and crime – the risk, costs and the rewards of good compliance and governance: What can technology do for integrity?’, Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime - Jesus College University of Cambridge - September 2021
Committees and reviewing
Peer Reviewer:
Oxford University Press
Routledge
The Law Teacher (international journal of legal pedagogy, Taylor and Francis)
Bristol University Press
Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property
South West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnerships Reviewer
External Examiner:
Kaplan International
Academic Expert:
The Law Society of England and Wales (Course Creation)
Doctoral Researcher:
Law Commission of England and Wales, Intermediated Securities Project
Supervisions
I'm very happy to consider supervising PhD and MPhil theses, as well as LLM and LLB dissertations in the following areas:
Law and Education (including Legal Education as its own discipline)
Property Law (particularly personal property)
Law and Technology (including but not limited to blockchain, DLT, AI and FinTech)
International/Municipal Securities Law
Equity and Trusts Law
Financial Law (especially looking at capital markets and company financing)
International Investment Law
Current supervision
Hessa Alfuraih
Research student
Research themes
Specialisms
- Property law
- Equity and trusts law
- Company law
- Law and technology
- Legal pedagogy