Lilian Moncrieff

Dr Lilian Moncrieff

Small Group Project 2024-25

In the company of “Dada”: countering “business as usual” in the era of climate change

In the Company of Dada is a research project and interdisciplinary collaboration, which brings together a corporate law researcher, an architect, and a writer, director, and performer. The project has legal and political economy origins, reflecting frustrations with the pace of political-economic responsiveness to the climate crisis, mass extinctions, and inequality. Policy makers’ insistence on maintaining growth and business principles, which promise certainty to business and the minimization of liability or “risk” as a priority, still, signpost dominance of “business as usual” approaches throughout sustainability forums, despite dramatically rising levels of existential threat.

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Areas of interest

Law Governance Corporate Responsibility Legal Theory Political Economy Environment Anthropocene

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Biography

Dr Moncrieff is a regulatory theorist and governance scholar, joining Queen Mary University of London as a Lecturer in the School of Law. She has come to Queen Mary from University of Glasgow, where she taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level and developed a specialism in corporate responsibility and the ‘new governance’ era of private sector regulation. Before entering academia, Dr Moncrieff worked as an associate in the City. Dr Moncrieff was educated at University of Glasgow (PhD), London School of Economics (LLM) and University of Edinburgh.

Dr Moncrieff is currently extending her research into the design of a ‘new social contract with business,’ examining (in a new article) regulatory priorities and underpinnings.

Dr Moncrieff is also working on an interdisciplinary small groups research project, concerned with modern corporations and cultures of the interwar era, ‘In the Company of Dada’.

Wider research interests include legal theory, law and political economy, law and the environment, and law and the anthropocene. Dr Moncrieff is interested in interdisciplinary approaches to legal research and in law and the humanities.

Biographical details correct as of 29.04.26