Hav­ing stud­ied law at Mag­dalen Col­lege Oxford, Richard Harp­er prac­ticed as a bar­ris­ter and then sat as a fam­i­ly law judge. Dur­ing his judi­cial career he has writ­ten about med­ical treat­ment and the law relat­ing to the pro­tec­tion of chil­dren and vul­ner­a­ble adults. He now writes and lec­tures on the over­all law relat­ing to the pro­tec­tion of chil­dren, and Dis­place­ment is his first work of non­fic­tion out­side of the law. The con­nect­ing theme of Harper’s writ­ing is exam­in­ing injus­tice and how it may be ame­lio­rat­ed. He lives with his fam­i­ly in West London.