Simon joined the Open University in 2013 while completing his PhD at the University of Nottingham. Prior to that he studied history (Sheffield) and law (University of Law, Birmingham), and briefly worked as a corporate/commercial solicitor (currently non-practising).
Simon's research covers the nexus between law, history and theory in relation to Nazi Germany, and aspects of public law.
Experience
–present
Lecturer in law, The Open University
Education
2015
University of Nottingham, Phd law
2010
University of Birmingham, LLM (General)
2007
College of Law, Guildford, LLB
2004
University of Sheffield, MA Historical Research
2003
University of Sheffield, BA History
Publications
2018
The Distorted Jurisprudential Discourse of Nazi Law: Uncovering the 'Rupture Thesis' in the Anglo-American Legal Academy, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue
2018
‘No one wants the taint of an association with the crimes of Nazism’: (Sometimes) in search of the meaning of Nazi Law, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History