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Dr Natalie Turney joined the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Law team as a Lecturer in Company Law in September 2024. She is Module Convenor of Law & Business, which is taught to first-year non-LLB students. She also teaches Company Law to final-year LLB students, and supervises dissertation projects. In her first year at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Natalie was nominated for the Academic Tutor Excellence Award.

Natalie is an expert in deferred prosecution agreements, directors’ liability, and directors’ and officers’ (D&O) liability insurance. She is published in corporate (criminal) law and insurance law, and has been called to speak and contribute on various connected issues. Her most recent larger-scale publication is Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Directors’ Liability, a book published by Informa Law in the prestigious Lloyd’s Insurance Law Library series. The book focusses on the impact of deferred prosecution agreements on corporate and implicated individuals – a topic previously omitted within the literature.

Natalie is passionate about advocating for women’s rights, particularly in a corporate context. She is a member of the UK Civil Society Alliance Core Group, and the UK civil society delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Since her attendance at the 69th Session of the CSW (CSW69), she has joined two working groups, and leads on one, to effect meaningful change. She engages with Parliamentarians to call for policy change. Natalie is also a long-standing member of The CEDAW Women’s Parliament, chaired by The Hon. Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt. 

Before joining the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, Natalie 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), Financial Crime and Money Laundering (LLM), and Law of Torts (LLB). She also taught on the Commercial Law (LLB) 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. Her PhD explored the evolution of deferred prosecution agreements in England and Wales, and the impact on company directors and their insurance coverage.

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.