Sharon Thompson

Sharon Thompson is Professor in Law at Cardiff University. Her research specialises in adult relationships, with particular focus on power, inequality and the gender of money. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, and she has published widely on family law and legal history, including the books Prenuptial Agreements and the Presumption of Free Choice (Bloomsbury 2015), Quiet Revolutionaries (Bloomsbury 2022), and The Road to Equal Partnership: Reforming the Financial Consequences of Divorce (BUP 2026). She is also co-author of Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP 2023) with Professor Rob George KC.

Sharon is a recipient of the SLSA Legal Theory and History Prize, the SLS Peter Birks Second Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, the Learned Society of Wales’s Dillwyn Medal for Humanities and the Creative Arts, and the Philip Leverhulme Prize.