Julia Moses is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield (UK). She is currently based at the Free University on a German Academic Exchange (DAAD)-funded study visit as part of Oliver Janz’s Lehrstuhl. Julia’s work focuses on social problems and policy in modern Europe. She has co-edited (with Michael Lobban) The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development (CUP, 2012) and theme issues in the Journal of Global History and Social Science History. Her books The First Modern Risk: Workplace Accidents and the Origins of European Welfare States and Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories are forthcoming. She is co-founder and co-chair of the Council for European Studies Political Economy and Welfare State Research Network. Julia is currently completing research for her book on marriage, law and cultural diversity in the German Empire which began during her Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) Early Career Fellowship. She will build on this work when she joins the Institute of Sociology at the University of Goettingen as a Marie Curie Fellow in autumn 2016.