Dr Sam Bourton

Dr Sam Bourton is a Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She teaches on the LLB and LLM programmes, with modules including the Law of Financial Crime and Regulation, International Financial Crime, and Research Methods. Sam’s research interests lie in the law of financial crime, particularly the law pertaining to tax evasion and money laundering. Sam is currently writing a monograph (to be published with Routledge), which concentrates on providing a comparative analysis of tax evasion law and its enforcement in the United Kingdom and United States of America. Her research was inspired by the global and national reactions to modern tax evasion scandals, such as the revelations concerning HSBC’s Private Bank in Switzerland and the Panama Papers. To contact, email: sam.bourton@uwe.ac.uk.