Hazel Genn
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Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE, KC (Hon), FBA (born 1949)[1] is a leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world,[2] and is a former Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London.
Genn is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission.[3] She was formerly: a member of the Economic and Social Research Council, where she served as chair of the Research Grants Board;[4] a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life;[5] chair of the Public Legal Education and Support (PLEAS) task force;[6] chair of the Advisory Panel for research on Family Advice and Information for the Legal Services Commission; chair of main panel J of the Research Assessment Exercise 2008.[7]
Education and early career
Genn is the daughter of Lionel and Dorothy Genn. She attended Minchenden Grammar School and studied for a joint degree in Sociology, Social Anthropology and Social Administration at the University of Hull.[8] In 1972, she abandoned work towards an M.A. in Sociology and became a researcher, first at Cambridge Institute of Criminology (1972–74), then at the Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (1974–1985) as a member of Wolfson College, Oxford,[9] during which she also achieved her LLB.[8]
She joined the Law Department at Queen Mary College, University of London in 1985, and became Professor and Head of Department in 1991.[10] In 1994 she went to[8] work at University College London, where she has remained.
