Sarah Thatcher (MA Oxon, MPhil Cantab) is a PhD candidate attached to the Computer Security Research Centre in the Information Systems Department at the LSE. Her research analyses cultural reactions to cyberterrorism, particularly at the level of government policy and legislation. Sarah’s research is motivated by the apparent confusion between the issues of computer hacking and terrorism and how this impacts on decisions taken at the national level. She is a also a Teaching Assistant in the IS Department at the LSE.

Sarah is a solicitor, qualified in England and Wales, and was admitted in 1998. She has practiced commercial litigation at two of the top six law firms in the City of London and has experience in both High Court and international arbitration proceedings. She specialises in information technology and international trade, but also has experience in commercial banking disputes, shipbuilding disputes, professional negligence, intellectual property and software piracy. Sarah also holds an MPhil in Criminological Research from Cambridge University and an MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University.

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