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.
[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.
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.
Genn was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 17 June 2006, elevated from Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
[2] In 2011 Dame Hazel became a patron of the Aberdeen Law Project.