John Paterson Author & Editor

John Paterson is Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Westminster, London, UK. He trained as a solicitor in the Office of the Solicitor to the Secretary of State for Scotland and holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy. He worked previously at the Centre de Philosophie du Droit, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and is co-editor (with Olivier De Schutter and Notis Lebessis) of Governance in the European Union, Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001. He has acted as a consultant for the European Commission's Forward Studies Unit and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, and has published in the fields of risk regulation, corporate governance and legal theory.