Published: 15/11/2022 13:37
Professor Jo Miles is Emerita Fellow in Law and formerly Professor of Family Law & Policy at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, where she taught family law, comparative family law & policy, and criminal law.
Photo credit: Eugenio Polgovsky (1977–2017), Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts, Trinity College (2015–17)
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