Asta Zokaityte, PhD, is a lecturer at Kent Law School, UK, where she teaches commercial law. Her research interests lie in the areas of financial services regulation, consumer protection, law and development, gender, and socio-legal studies. She has years of professional legal experience having worked as a lawyer in Lithuania, where she advised corporate clients across different fields of practice, including but not limited to: consumer credit, capital markets and securities law, corporate restructuring and insolvency. Asta Zokaityte has published her work in international journals.