Dr Natalie Turney

Before joining the University of Reading in September 2024, Dr Natalie Turney worked as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Buckingham. For her work there, she was entered to the long list for Law Teacher of the Year 2024, a national award hosted by Oxford University Press. At Buckingham, Natalie was Module Leader of Company Law (LLB), Corporate Law & Corporate Insolvency (LLM), Money Laundering, Financial Crime and Market Abuse (LLM), and Law of Torts (LLB). She also taught on the Commercial Law module and supervised dissertation students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Natalie completed her PhD in corporate crime and insurance law at the University of Buckingham from 2019-2022, following supervision by Professor Adolfo Paolini and examination at viva by Professor Robert Merkin KC and Professor Özlem Gürses. Prior to her PhD, Natalie graduated with First Class Honours (2018) from the two-year intensive Law LLB programme, and with Distinction (2019) from the International and Commercial Law LLM programme (having adopted a Corporate Law specialism). For her LLM studies, Natalie was awarded the coveted Dame Barbara Shenfield award, a prize awarded to the postgraduate student deemed to have achieved the best overall performance in the university that academic year.

Natalie is published in corporate (criminal) law and insurance law, and has been called to speak and contribute on various connected issues. Her most recent large-scale publication is Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Directors’ Liability, a book published by Informa Law in the Lloyd’s Insurance Law Library series. She is passionate about advocating for women’s rights, particularly in a corporate context.