Role: Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Leeds
Leeds, UK

  Contact: S.E.Brown@leeds.ac.uk

  Research Interests:
Business Law | Consumer Credit Regulation | Comparative Law | Vulnerability Theory | Social Justice

Dr. Sarah Brown is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Leeds and has been in her current post since 2006. She is a member of both the School’s Centre for Business Law and Practice and Centre for Law and Social Justice. Sarah is a qualified solicitor. Having completed her training in London, she worked in private practice and in the financial services industry before entering academia. Since joining the School of Law, Sarah’s research and publications have focused on consumer credit regulation, more specifically, unfairness in consumer credit transactions, over-indebtedness, and protection of small business. Her most recent project has entailed comparative work in personal insolvency across the EU.

Sarah is interested in comparative aspects of all issues relating to consumer credit and its regulation. She is currently particularly interested in how vulnerability is viewed and how policy responses are reflected in regulatory consumer protection initiatives within the context of credit relationships. Through engaging with scholars involved in the Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative at Emory, Sarah hopes not only to develop her own insights into vulnerability within the context of consumer credit relationships, but also to further her research into the responses of United States consumer protection policy and regulation, and how this compares with recent regulatory responses in the UK.