Philip Schofield is Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought in the Faculty of Laws and Director of the Bentham Project, University College London.

He is General Editor of the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, for which he has edited or co-edited around a dozen volumes. His major study Utility and Democracy: the political thought of Jeremy Bentham, was published in 2006 by Oxford University Press.