Dr Asta Zokaityte

Dr Asta Zokaityte is a Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School with teaching and research expertise in contract law, consumer law, company law, and corporate governance. Her work explores the regulation of private markets through a socio-legal lens, with a particular focus on financial governance, consumer protection, and the normative foundations of legal regulation. Asta is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a former International Research Fellow at the Information Society Law Centre, University of Milan.

At Kent, she convenes and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in Contract Law, Company Law, Consumer Law, Corporate Governance, and Commercial Credit. She supervises doctoral and LLM research, with particular interest in consumer law, the regulation of financial markets, and the governance of healthcare technologies and food systems. She currently serves as Director of the PGR Progress Reviews. Asta is also a Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Sexuality.

Prior to her academic career, Asta practised as an associate attorney at Trinity, an international law firm, where she advised both national and international clients on a wide range of private law and finance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and capital markets transactions. She also provided legal advice to the Financial Consumers Association in Lithuania and worked as a legal consultant to the Central Bank of Lithuania, contributing to national policy on consumer finance and financial education.

Asta is currently pursuing research on the regulation of consumer financial markets and social justice, focusing on access to credit and the fairness of credit terms. She is also studying the national and European regulation of ultra-processed food markets and the challenges that the current ‘informational’ regulatory paradigm brings to managing and advancing population health. Her broader research explores the intersection of legal regulation, consumer vulnerability, and structural inequality, with a focus on how markets in finance, healthcare technologies, and food are governed and contested.

• Contract Law (Undergraduate)
• Company Law (Undergraduate)
• Consumer Law (Undergraduate)
• Corporate Governance (Postgraduate)
• Commercial Credit (Postgraduate)
• Supervision of PhD and LLM dissertations

Open to Supervision in:
– Consumer law
– Regulation of financial markets and credit
– Governance of healthcare technologies and food markets

Academic Service and Professional Activity

• Editorial Board Member, Common Law World Review and Feminists@Law
• Member of Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK)
• Member of National Contract Law Educators Network (ContractEd)
• Member of International Association of Consumer Law
• Co-Director of Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Sexuality (Kent Law School)