John Anthony Flood is a British and Australian sociologist of law, legal academic, consultant, author and a researcher.
He is the author of Barristers' Clerks—The Law's Middlemen, The Legal Profession in the United States, What Do Lawyers Do?
[4] After completing his LLM from Yale Law School, Flood joined American Bar Foundation as affiliated scholar and later got promoted as research associate in 1983.
Between Indiana and Westminster Flood held a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
[13] Flood conducted research on the capital markets as a driver of global economy and as a means of interaction between the investment banks and the elite law firms.
He also explained the transnational legal processes and compared the investment laws in Turkmenistan and Poland.
He conducted research on how different cultural, social and economic factors have transformed the global legal practice and explained the basic structure of a British law firm.
[16] Flood then expanded his research focus to include the effect of blockchain or distributed ledger technology on law and the legal profession.
He stated that pure automation is difficult to achieve in professions as these include both the technical and indeterminate elements.
Flood also discussed the application of AI and blockchain technology such as DAO and its impact on the role of lawyer as a trusted legal advisor.
Flood suggested the 'adaptive professionalism' narrative that contributes to a better approach for the adaption of the new curriculum in legal education.