主讲人简介： Tim Murphy教授毕业于剑桥大学，先后在美国西北大学和英国肯特大学任教，现为英国伦敦政治经济学院(LSE) 知名的法理学教授。主要研究方向是法律与社会理论，近年来的研究兴趣更专注于中国的法律与政府研究。

Tim Murphy
Tim Murphy was educated at Nottingham High School and Downing College, Cambridge. He taught at Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Kent at Canterbury before joining LSE in 1978, where he has been Professor of Law since 1999. He has also taught numerous courses for the WEA and the TUC. From 1992-1995 he served as Dean of the Graduate School at LSE. He was General Editor of the Modern Law Review from 1995 to 2002 and is a founder member of the Editorial Board of Law and Critique. In recent years he has served at LSE as Chairman of the Graduate School Committee and Vice-Chairman of the School’s Appointments Committee and took up the post of Deputy Director in September 2005. Current research interests are in the fields of law and social theory; the history and theory of heritage; and law and governance in China.