Daniel Greenberg

I am a lawyer specialising in legislation, the legislative process, and Parliament. I am presently serving as Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in the House of Commons. I write and talk about UK legislation and law, and also about Jewish law and ethics (including contributing to the Jewish Chronicle occasionally, and appearing a few times a year on BBC Radio 4's Thought For The Day).

In the 2021 New Year's Honours List I was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) for services to Parliament.

I am the Editor of Craies on Legislation, Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary and Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law (2010, 2015, 2019, 2023/4), the Editor of Halsbury’s Laws on Statutes, and a contributing editor to the Oxford English Dictionary. I am also General Editor of Westlaw UK for Thomson Reuters.

My book Laying Down the Law was published by Thomson Reuters in 2009. It looks at people - Ministers, special advisers, House authorities, departmental lawyers, Parliamentary Counsel, and others - and considers how each of them influence the actual words of legislation. It also looks at some practical implications of procedural issues.

My book How to Become Jewish and Why Not To was written in 2009 to draw attention to some of the major defects of the conversion process as carried out in the United Kingdom, warning prospective converts about how they are likely to be treated, and aiming to encourage the Jewish community to treat actual and prospective converts better.

In October 2017 I published What If God's A Christian - an annotated compilation of blog posts from The Sceptic Blog, an orthodox but sceptical Jewish view of the world. For many people, organised religion creates or contributes to the world’s most significant problems today, and causes or foments division, mistrust and hatred. But most people for whom religion is important would like it to be part of the solution, and not the world’s biggest problem. What If God's A Christian attempts to demonstrate that a religious approach can contribute ideas that people of other religions, or no religion, may find interesting and even helpful.

In October 2020 I published A Tale of Two Rabbis - Faith and Fraud, a novel about housing benefit fraud in the orthodox Jewish community. It highlights through fiction the extremes of piety and corruption that co-exist within a religious community, told through the eyes of a student who becomes more disillusioned with the community as he becomes more impressed with the saintliness of individuals within it.