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Greg Osborne  LLM, Barrister (non-practising)

Quaifications: LLB (Lond) 1974, Barrister 1975,  LLM (Lond) 1977

After being called to the Bar Greg later lectured at what is now Anglia Ruskin University – leaving in 1985 and spent almost 20 years as in house lawyer, company secretary and director of a number of banks, insurers, and investment management companies. Greg Joined the University of Portsmouth part time in 2003, full time in 2007.

Greg’s career as a lawyer in the finance industry along with extensive experience as a member of the management boards of financial institutions provides a fund of material which contextualises law outside the realm of litigation. Greg utilises these insights in his teaching of Equity & Trusts, land Law, International trade and Private international law.

This experience also informs the first of Greg’s research interests - the use of trusts in a commercial rather than a domestic situation. His commercial experience also involved exposure to the early days in the development of the Islamic finance industry. From this has developed his work on the ‘paradigm shift’ in Western legal culture from 16^th century and how a further revolution in the accepted mode of thinking may be needed in order to cope with competing worldviews  in the absence of a belief in the existence of a universal Truth.

Greg is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars