Anna Chadwick is a Lecturer in Law working in International Law and Legal Theory. She first joined the School of Law as a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith (LKAS) Fellow in 2017, after completing a two-year Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute, in Florence. Anna’s principal research interests lie at the intersection between law and markets. Her PhD research explored the role of commodity derivatives speculation in the context of the 2007-11 global food crisis and offered a critical assessment of attempts to use financial regulation as a means to curb excessive levels of speculation in derivatives markets. Anna’s subsequent work has investigated the relationships between law and processes of financialisation in the global economy, the significance of contract law in the development of new financial instruments, and the role of public international law and international economic law in contributing to the production of food insecurity. Her monograph, Law and the Political Economy of Hunger, was published by Oxford University Press in January 2019.

Anna was awarded her doctorate by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in November 2015. During her PhD, she co-founded the Food, Law, and Finance Network (FFRN) with colleagues in the UK, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, and the US. Prior to undertaking her doctorate, Anna spent one year working for the legal charity, Reprieve, where she undertook investigation and research on death penalty cases. Anna holds a Masters Degree in Public International Law and International and UK Human Rights Law (LLM) from King’s College London, and an LLB from the University of Leeds.