During my academic career, I worked on the law regarding family finances, particularly on divorce and on ending of non-marital cohabiting relationships. I served two years on secondment to the Law Commission for England & Wales in order to be a team lawyer on the Commission’s project on financial remedies on the breakdown of cohabitation. My research encompassed both doctrinal and empirical research, latterly undertaking a major study of financial remedies orders with Professor Emma Hitchings (Bristol). Alongside my academic research and publication activities, I undertook an extensive range of public-facing activities, working alongside practitioners on Family Justice Council and Pensions Advisory Group projects that resulted in the publication of guidance for lawyers/judges and, separately, for lay people who find themselves having to deal with the fraught and technical issue of dealing with finances on divorce. As an academic door tenant at 1 Hare Court, I also consulted on a number of leading cases relating to family law matters in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal.

In my “retirement”, I am collobarating with Professor Rebecca Probert (Exeter) on a project communicating legal issues in the work of Agatha Christie to her readership, to enchance their appreciation of her work.

A fuller account of my academic career may be found in this interview published by the Financial Remedies Journal: https://financialremediesjournal.com/interview-with-jo-miles-fellow-of-trinity-college-cambridge/

My current Agatha Christie research may be followed on Instagram @legallyagatha, with book publications coming soon.