Dapo Akande is also Yamani Fellow at St. Peter's College and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). He is the current Convenor of the Oxford Law Faculty's Public International Law Group. In 2008/09 he was Visiting Associate Professor and Robinna Foundation International Fellow at Yale Law School. In 2002 and 2009, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Miami School of Law. From 1998 to 2000, he was Lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law and from 2000 to 2004 he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Durham. From 1994 to 1998, he has taught (part-time), first at the London School of Economics  and then at Christ's College and Wolfson College, Cambridge.

He has varied research interests within the field of general international law and has published articles on aspects of the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement , international criminal law and the law of armed conflict. His articles have been published in leading international law journals such as the American Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law and the European Journal of International Law . His article in the Journal of International Criminal Justice on the "Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over Nationals of Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits" was awarded the 2003 Giorgio La Pira Prize.

Dapo has advised States and international organizations on matters of international law. He has advised and assisted counsel or provided expert opinions in cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, international arbitral tribunals, WTO and NAFTA Dispute Settlement Panels as well as cases in England and the United States of America. He has acted as Consultant for the African Union on the international criminal court and on the law relating to terrorism. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats, military officers and other government officials.

In addition to being editor of EJIL:Talk! (the blog of the European Journal of International Law), he is a member of the boards of a number of journals, academic and professional organizations, including:
the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law;
the Editorial Board of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law;
the Advisory Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law;
the Executive Council of the British Branch of the International Law Association; the Advisory Board of the International Centre for Transitional Justice and
the Advisory Committee of International Lawyers for Africa.

John Armour was appointed to the Hogan Lovells Professorship in Law and Finance, in association with Oriel College on 1 July 2007, having previously been a University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity Hall at Cambridge University. He studied law (MA, BCL) at the University of Oxford before completing his LLM at Yale Law School and taking up his first post at the University of Nottingham. He has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Bologna, Columbia Law School, the University of Frankfurt, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law, Hamburg, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Western Ontario.

He has published widely in the fields of company law, corporate finance, and corporate insolvency. His main research interest lies in the integration of legal and economic analysis, with particular emphasis on the impact on the real economy of changes in the law governing company law, corporate insolvency and financial regulation. He has been involved in policy related projects commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Financial Services Authority, the Insolvency Service, and the Jersey Economic Development Department.

Dr Michael Ashdown is Fellow and Tutor in law at Somerville College. He studied law in Cambridge and Oxford, and previously worked as a research assistant on property and trust law projects at the Law Commission. Dr Ashdown's research interests are principally in the law of trusts, in particular examining the consequences of the improper exercise of trustees' powers. He teaches tutorials in trusts, land law and Roman law.

Andrew Ashworth is the Vinerian Professor of English Law. He obtained his LL.B. from the London School of Economics (1968), and then took the B.C.L. at Oxford (1970). He obtained a Ph.D. from Manchester University (1973). In 1993 he was awarded the degree of D.C.L. at Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1997 he was appointed a Q.C. Honoris causa. In 1999 he was appointed a member of the Sentencing Advisory Panel,becoming its chair in 2007 until its abolition in 2010. He was awarded the degree of LL.D.honoris causa at De Montfort University in 1998, and the degree of Jur. D. honoris causa at Uppsala University in 2003. His first teaching position was as Lecturer (1970-76) then Senior Lecturer (1976-78) at Manchester University. From 1978 to 1988 he was Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, and he served as Acting Director of the University's Centre for Criminological Research from 1982 to 1983. In 1988 he was appointed Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice at King's College London, and held that post until moving to All Souls College to take up the Vinerian chair in 1997.

Dan Awrey was appointed to the position of University Lecturer in Law & Finance and Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford University in April 2010.  Dan holds degrees from Queen's University (B.A., LL.B.), the University of Toronto (LL.M.) and Oxford University (D.Phil.). 

Before entering academia, Dan served as legal counsel to a global investment management firm and, prior to that, as an associate practicing corporate finance and securities law with a major Canadian law firm.  Dan's teaching and research interests reside in the area of financial regulation and, more specifically, the financial markets, institutions and instruments which together comprise the shadow banking system.

Roderick Bagshaw is Tutor and Fellow in Law at Magdalen College and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. He teaches undergraduate courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Tort Law, and on the postgraduate BCL Evidence course. He was formerly on the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Convenor of the Society's Tort Law Subject Section.

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Fellow of Mansfield College 1994-2002.

Lecturer, Jesus College, 1992-94.

Nicholas Bamforth, BCL. MA (Oxon) is a Fellow in Law at Queen's College. He has previously worked at UCL and Cambridge. In 2003-4, he was a Hauser Global Research Fellow at New York University. Since October 2006, he has been an elected member of Oxford's University Council. He is currently serving as the University Junior Proctor.

Nick Barber joined the Oxford Law Faculty in 1998 as a Fixed Term Fellow at Brasenose, moving to a tenured Fellowship at Trinity College in 2000.  He holds an MA from Oxford and the BCL, and is a non-practicing barrister and member of Middle Temple.  In 2013 he was appointed University Lecturer in Constitutional Law.  In 2012 and 2013 he was a visiting Professor at Renmin University, China.  He has lectured extensively on constitutional law and theory in many countries.  He has published many papers in these areas, and his book - The Constitutional State – was published in 2011, and has been widely reviewed.  He is also editor of the United Kingdom Constitutional Law Blog.  

Hugh Beale has been the Commercial Law and Common Law Commissioner at the Law Commission since 2000. While he has been at the Commission, reports in his area of responsibility have included Limitation of Actions, Unfair Terms in Contracts and Company Security Interests. He is also a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, where he has taught since 1987.

Iris Benöhr is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and holds a PhD and Master in Law (European University Institute, Florence) and a Licence en Droit (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland /Erasmus year at the University of Salamanca, Spain). She was admitted to the Bar, Zurich (Switzerland). Prior to the fellowship, she held positions as a qualified lawyer, at an international law firm, at the United Nations and at the European Commission.

Her main research interests lie in the field of EU law and international law, consumer and competition law, human rights, comparative contract law, environmental law, civil justice and sustainable development. She is currently working on a project on European and comparative civil justice systems, competition law and alternative redress mechanisms.

Working Languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish

Frank Berman QC joined the Faculty in 2000 as Visiting Professor in International Law on his retirement from the post of Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

During a full career in the Diplomatic Service, he served in Berlin, Bonn and at the UN in New York, conducted cases before the International Court of Justice and arbitral tribunals and took part in numerous international negotiations, culminating in leading the British Delegation to the International Conference that drew up the Statute of the International Criminal Court.

He came to Oxford to read law as a Rhodes Scholar and is an Hon. Fellow (now Fellow) of Wadham. He practises at the Bar in public international law and international arbitration. He is a member of numerous committees in the legal field, including the Advisory Councils of the Institute for European & Comparative Law and of the Oxford University Law Foundation, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the British Year Book of International Law.

His research interests lie principally in the law of treaties, the use of force, settlement of disputes, international humanitarian law and the law of international organizations. He is preparing a Second Edition of Lord McNair's classic work on The Law of Treaties, and chairs the International Law Association's Committee on the Accountability of International Organizations. He serves on the Staff Tribunal of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund and has been appointed Chairman of the Austrian National Committee to supervise the compensation of victims of Nazi persecution.

Ulf Bernitz is a regular visitor to the IECL. He is also course director of the Master of European Law course at Stockholm University and director of the Stockhom Institute of European Law.

Ruth Bird's career started in secondary school teaching before undertaking postgraduate studies in Librarianship, and working for several years as a teacher librarian.
In 1988 she moved into law libraries as the Manager of Information Services at Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks, a leading Australian law firm. In 1994 she became their Practice Development Manager, responsible for marketing services in the firm, which is now part of Allens Arthur Robinson.
In 1993, as the National Convener of the Australian Law Librarians Group, she worked with colleagues in all state divisions to improve professional development for Australian law librarians.
In 1996 she moved to academia, joining the University of Melbourne Library, and Law Faculty, as the Law Librarian. During this time she worked closely with the Faculty in the planning of the Legal Resource Centre in the new Law School Building.
In 2000 she became the Firm Legal Information Manager, responsible for precedents and libraries across all the offices of Australian law firm Phillips Fox.
In 2004 Ruth (with her husband, Ian), relocated to Oxford, where she became the Bodleian Law Librarian at the University of Oxford. Numerous projects have been undertaken in the law library, including a reclassification of the text collection, the creation of a new reading room for graduates, and an increased concentration on research courses for postgraduate students.
Ruth was a member of the Council of BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) 2008 - 2011, and is a member of the Board of the International Association of Law Libraries. In 2008 she undertook an academic exchange at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg, researching the role of print materials in libraries in a digital age. In 2010 she researched legal information literacy during an academic exchange at the University of Melbourne Law School.
In 2010, Ruth was made an Honorary Bencher at Middle Temple.

Alan received his undergraduate and graduate education in Oxford, being awarded his BA in Law (first class) in 1997. Thereafter, he was awarded the degrees of BCL (first class) and DPhil. Following a period as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham, Alan returned to Oxford in 2003 to take up his fellowship at Hertford College. Alan's research focuses predominantly on theoretical issues in domestic, European and International labour law. His book 'The Democratic Aspects of Trade Union Recognition' was published in 2009 by Hart Publishing. It was awarded the SLS Peter Birks' Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2010. The book has been reviewed in the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Industrial Law Journal, British Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Law in Context, Industrial Relations Journal (UK), Journal of Industrial Relations (Australia), Osgoode Hall Law Journal, and Canadian Journal of Employment and Labour Law. Additionally, his work in labour law has been published in a wide variety of international journals. He is currently coordinating a Leverhulme International Research Network with Professor Tonia Novitz at the University of Bristol following the successful award of a large scale grant. Details of the network's activities can be found here: www.voicesatwork.org.uk. The network includes academics from Stanford, Osgoode Hall, and Monash Universities. Additionally, current research projects include: the intersection between migrant status and labour rights; European Social Dialogue and theories of deliberative democracy; and the constitutionalisation of freedom of association in comparative perspective. His work has been cited by Advocate Generals in the Court of Justice of the European Union in respect of working time regulation. Most recently, his work was cited with approval by the United Kingdom Supreme Court on the issue of sham contracts of employment in Autoclenz v Belcher. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of Employment Rights.

Mary Bosworth is Director of Graduate Studies at the Centre for Criminology. She is Reader in Criminology and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford and, concurrently, Professor of Criminology at Monash University, Australia. Dr Bosworth conducts research into the ways in which prisons and immigration detention centres uphold notions of race, gender and citizenship and how those who are confined negotiate their daily lives. Her research is international and comparative and has included work conducted in Paris, Britain, the USA and Australia.  Dr Bosworth is currently heading a five-year project on “Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a Global Age” funded by a Starter Grant from the European Research Council. She is also, with colleagues from Monash University, conducting research in Greek Immigration Detention Centres. Details of both of these projects can be found on the website http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk. She is the UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology, a co-editor of Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship, and a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Race & Justice and the International Journal of Border Security and Immigration Policy.

Ben Bradford Ben's research focuses primarily on issues of trust and legitimacy as these apply to the police and the wider criminal justice system. International and cross-national comparisons of these issues are a growing research interest, and his work has a particular emphasis on procedural justice theory and the intersection of social-psychological and sociological explanatory paradigms. He has collaborated with the London Metropolitan Police and the National Policing Improvement Agency on several research projects concerned with improving police understanding of public opinions and priorities.

Alexandra Braun is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall and a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law. Prior to that she was a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow in Law at St. John's College, Oxford. She received her BA and LLM degree from the University of Genoa (Italy) and holds a PhD in Comparative Private Law from the University of Trento (Italy). Since 2009 she is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the International University College of Turin where she teaches a course on Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth.

Her teaching interests include Comparative Private Law and Legal History as well as some core areas of private law such as Trust Law, Succession Law and Contract Law. Currently, she teaches the undergraduate courses on A Roman Introduction to Private Law, Trust Law and Land Law and the BCL/MJur course on Advanced Property and Trusts.

Her main research interests lie in the field of Comparative Law, European Private Law and Legal History, as well as areas of private law such as Contract Law, Succession Law and the Law of Trusts.

Adrian Briggs is a Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund Hall and has been teaching in Oxford since 1980. His main interest is in the conflict of laws, and within that, in questions of civil jurisdiction and the recognition of foreign judgments. He is an assistant editor of Dicey & Morris (14th edn. 2006, and supplements), and has chambers in the Temple from which he is able to remind himself that although it is one thing to persuade oneself that the law is clear and explicable, it is quite another to persuade a court.

Susan Bright has been teaching in Oxford since 1992. She joined New College as a Fellow in 2004, having previously been a Fellow at St Hilda's College. She qualified as a solicitor in London, practising in the field of commercial property. At Oxford, she teaches land law, contract law, commercial leases, and housing and human rights.
Her writing is mainly in the field of real property law, especially landlord and tenant law. Her current research interests focus around the home in land law and ‘green leases’. In relation to the home, her work explores the legal models that are used for delivering affordable home ownership, and the considerations that come into play during the legal process when a home is lost. She is currently involved in an empircal project exploring the extent to which non-financial considerations are taken into account in possession cases.  Sue’s green lease work is focussed on the commercial property sector and considers the hurdles and opportunities that leasing patterns present to improving the energy performance of the commercial built environment. A selection of Sue's papers can be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=529157 Sue has been appointed to sit as a part time Lawyer Chair of the Residential Property Tribunal Service. She is also a Fellow of the South African Research Chair in Property Law and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales.

Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is is Professor of the Law of England and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls. Formerly: the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Honorary Director of the Oxford University Law Foundation.

Law Commissioner for England and Wales 1994-1999; Professor of English Law, University College, London 1994-1999; Fellow and CUF Lecturer in Law, Lady Margaret Hall, 1986-1994; Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester 1980-1986; Visiting Professor, Bond University 1994; Research Fellow, Australian National University 1994.

Judicial Studies Board; Civil Committee of the Judicial Studies Board; Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit; Member of the Ogden Working Party; Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London.

John Cartwright has been Official Student (Fellow and Tutor) in Law at Christ Church since 1982, and Professor of the Law of Contract in the University since 2008. (He was Lecturer in Law from 1982 until 2004, then Reader in the Law of Contract from 2004 to 2008.) He is also a Solicitor. In 2007 he was appointed as Professor of Anglo-American Private Law at the University of Leiden and for a number of years he has been professeur invité at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). His research interests are in the fields of English and comparative private law, especially contract and land law. He teaches the undergraduate courses on Contract, Comparative Law (English/French Law of Contract), Land Law, Tort and Roman Law, and the BCL/MJur course on European Private Law (Contract).

Mindy Chen-Wishart is a Lecturer in the Law Faculty and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Merton College. She has taught law since 1985. Until 1992, she was a Senior Lecturer at Otago University in New Zealand. She then spent two years as the Rhodes Visiting Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College before taking up her current position. She teaches Contract, Restitution, Torts and Constitutional Law (and has previously also taught Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law and Introduction to Law). She is involved in graduate teaching in Restitution and supervises graduate students working in topics in the law of Contract and Restitution.

Rachel Condry joined the Law Faculty in 2010. She is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Criminology and a Fellow of St Hilda's College. She has previously been a lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey, and a lecturer and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the London School of Economics. She is working on a three year ESRC-funded project on adolescent-to-parent violence and a British Academy-funded project on parenting expertise in youth justice.

B.C.L., (N.U.I.), LL.M. (Bruges), B.L. (Honorable Society of King's Inns) is a fellow of Worcester College. She tutors Constitutional and EU law and also teaches parts of the BCL International and European Employment Law course.

From 1998-2003 she was Lecturer in European Law at the Law School, Trinity College Dublin. From 2000-2003, she also held the position of Director of the Irish Centre for European Law. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco and from January to May 2006 was a visiting research fellow at NYU School of Law.

She has assisted a number of NGOs in the immigration and asylum fields, and was a member of the Board of the Irish Refugee Council and the Steering Committee of the Immigrant Council of Ireland. She is currently on ILPA's (Immigration Law Practitioners' Association) European Group.   Her DPhil is on EU immigration and asylum law, and will form the basis of a monograph in the  Oxford Studies in European Law series with OUP.  She also writes on EU constitutional and equality law.

Paul Cowie

Paul Linton Cowie is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

He studied Law with European Law at Lincoln College, Oxford and Leiden University. He then studied philosophy and economics at a postgraduate level at both New York University and Harvard, and has been a visiting research student at both the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge and the Northern Institute of Philosophy, Aberdeen. He returned to Oxford in 2010 to conduct a doctorate in legal philosophy.

His research focuses on the theoretical relationship between legal philosophy (primarily human rights) and economic philosophy (primarily welfare economics). He has also worked in moral philosophy on the relation between reasons, rationality and morality.

He teaches Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Jurisprudence for St Hilda?s College. He also teaches Moral and Political Philosophy for the Law Faculty.

Paul Craig, MA 1973, BCL 1974, Oxon, Gibbs Prize 1972, Henriques Prize 1973, Vinerian Scholar 1974. Professor in English Law since Oct 1998- St. John's College .

Formerly: Professor in Law 1996-1998 Worcester College; Lecturer, Magdalen College, 1974-75, Reader 1991-96.

Anne Davies is Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College. She was awarded the title of Reader in Public Law in 2006, and the title of Professor of Law and Public Policy in 2010. She studied at Oxford, completing the BA (winning the Gibbs and Martin Wronker Prizes) and the D.Phil. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College from 1995 to 2001, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan in 1999. Professor Davies is the author of four books and numerous articles in the fields of public law and labour law.
In public law, she has a particular interest in government contracts. Her D.Phil. thesis examined the phenomenon of contractualisation in the NHS from a public law perspective. She developed this research into a book entitled Accountability: A Public Law Analysis of Government By Contract which was published by Oxford University Press in 2001. She has also written articles on the regulation of the medical profession and on accountability and autonomy issues in the NHS. More recently, she has been working on a wider examination of government procurement and public/private partnership contracts from a public law perspective. Her book The Public Law of Government Contracts was published by OUP in September 2008.
In labour law, Professor Davies is the author of Perspectives on Labour Law, published by Cambridge University Press in the Law in Context series in 2004. The second edition of this book was published in 2009. This book examines a selection of topics in English labour law in the light of international human rights instruments and various economic arguments. Her interests in the labour law field are wide-ranging, encompassing international, European and domestic law. Her latest book, EU Labour Law, was published in May 2012.
Professor Davies gives tutorials in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Labour Law. She lectures in Labour Law for the faculty, and co-teaches the BCL/M.Jur. course in International and European Employment Law.

Paul Davies is the Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law and Professorial Fellow of Jesus College. He was educated at the Universities of Oxford (MA), London (LLM) and Yale (LLM). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2000, an honorary Queen's Counsel in 2006 and an honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn in 2007. He is a deputy chairman of the Central Arbitration Committee. His first teaching job was as Lecturer in Law at the University of Warwick (1969-1973). Then he was elected Fellow and Tutor in Law at Balliol College Oxford and successively CUF Lecturer, Reader and Professor in the Faculty. Between 1998 and 2009 he was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Paul read Oriental Studies (Japanese) and then Law at Downing College, Cambridge, and spent a year in Poitiers studying French Law. After graduating, Paul worked in the Property and Trust Law Team at the Law Commission, and was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn.

He became a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 2008, and was also a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. He joined the Oxford Law Faculty as a CUF Lecturer in April 2013, and is a Fellow of St Catherine's College. Paul's teaching and research interests lie primarily in the law of obligations and property.

Eric Descheemaeker came to Oxford in 2001 to read for the D.Phil. His thesis was concerned with structural issues within the law of civil wrongs in the Romanist tradition and the common law; it was published as a book under the title The Division of Wrongs (OUP, 2009). From 2004 to 2009, he was a teaching fellow of St Catherine's College; and since 2009 has been a research fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law, for which he organises the annual French Law Moot. He is now Lecturer in European Private Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Julie Dickson (LLB, Dip. L.P. Glasgow; MA, DPhil Oxon) is Fellow and Senior Law Tutor at Somerville College, and CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. After completing a D. Phil in Philosophy of Law at Balliol College, Oxford, she held posts at the University of Leicester and University College London before taking up a Fellowship in Law at Somerville College in 2002.

Dr Dickson works mainly in general jurisprudence or philosophy of law, and especially on methodological issues, and her publications on this topic include her book, Evaluation and Legal Theory (2001). She is also interested in theoretical aspects of European Union Law, including the theory of legal systems in the EU context. Dr Dickson teaches Jurisprudence and European Union Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and is the review articles editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. She also serves on the editorial board of legal philosophy journals, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, Transnational Legal Theory and Problema.

Dr Dickson's most recent project - with regard to which she served as both co-editor and contributor - was to produce a new book featuring the best contemporary work combining legal and political philosophy and European Union law. J. Dickson and P. Eleftheriadis (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

Janina Dill's research focuses on international law in war, specifically its philosophical foundations and normative scope. She currently studies moral agency and individual legal responsibility in combat operations. Do the choices that individual agents at different levels of the chain of command face match the assumptions about moral agency underlying the law that criminalizes unlawful attack?

Janina is also currently working on turning her DPhil thesis into a book. This project investigates from an interdisciplinary point of view whether air warfare can be effectively regulated by international law. Each part of the project makes an original contribution to a contemporary debate in one of three fields: international humanitarian law, international relations theory and practical ethics.

Furthermore, she is interested in and has previously worked on the emergence and demise of states in international law and the legal and political challenges associated with state failure, state building and self-determination.

Graeme Dinwoodie is the Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at the University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, and a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter's College. Prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, Professor Dinwoodie was a Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He has also previously taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and University of Pennsylvania School of Law, and from 2005-2009 held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London. He teaches and writes in all aspects of intellectual property law, with an emphasis on the international and comparative aspects of the discipline. He is the author of five casebooks including TRADEMARKS AND UNFAIR COMPETITION: LAW AND POLICY (3d ed 2010) (with Janis) and INTERNATIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW AND POLICY (2d ed. 2008) (with Hennessey, Perlmutter and Austin). Professor Dinwoodie's articles have appeared in several leading law reviews. He received the 2008 Ladas Memorial Award from the International Trademark Association for his article Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law (with Janis). Professor Dinwoodie has served as a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization on matters of private international law, as an Adviser to the American Law Institute Project on Principles on Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments in Intellectual Property Matters, and as a Consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the Protection of Traditional Knowledge. He is a past Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Association of American Law Schools and the current President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). Professor Dinwoodie was elected to the American Law Institute in 2003, and in 2008 was awarded the Pattishall Medal for Excellence in Teaching Trademark and Trade Identity Law by the International Trademark Association. Prior to teaching, Professor Dinwoodie had been an associate with Sullivan and Cromwell in New York. Professor Dinwoodie holds a First Class Honors LL.B. degree from the University of Glasgow, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a J.S.D. from Columbia Law School. He was the Burton Fellow in residence at Columbia Law School for 1988-89, working in the field of intellectual property law, and a John F. Kennedy Scholar at Harvard Law School for 1987-88.

Simon Douglas is a law fellow at Jesus College, having formerly been a career development fellow at Wadham College. He took his undergraduate degree in Liverpool University, followed by the BCL and DPhil in Oxford.

Professor Douglas-Scott was born and grew up in Edinburgh. She studied philosophy, art history and aesthetics before taking a degree in law. Before coming to Oxford, she was Professor of Law at King's College London. She is a barrister and a member of Gray's Inn.

Sionaidh Douglas-Scott works primarily within the field of EU Public Law and legal and social theory, specializing, in particular, in EU human rights law. She is the author of the monograph, 'Constitutional Law of the EU', (2nd edition, forthcoming 2013).  She has published widely on EU human rights law, including articles on freedom of expression (especially on hate speech), and on the importance of maintaining human rights in the face of EU and national fights against terrorism. She has held visiting posts at various institutions, including the University of Bonn, where she was visiting Jean Monnet professor. Since 1993, she has co-taught and developed a course on comparative US and EU human rights law with Justice Anthony Kennedy of the US Supreme Court at the Salzburg Forum for International Studies. 

Her current projects include a monograph on European Human Rights law and she is also co-editing a Research Handbook on the European Union and Human Rights.

Professor Douglas-Scott has also recently completed a monograph, Law After Modernity  (publication date April, 2013) which explores at a more abstract level many of the issues of pluralism, justice and human rights also to be found in her work on the EU, and unusually, for a work of legal theory, is illustrated with various images and artistic works.

Andrew Dyson is a college lecturer in Contract Law and the Law of Torts at Corpus Christi College. He holds degrees from Queens' College Cambridge (BA, Law) and Merton College Oxford (BCL). Andrew is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the effect of post-breach events on damages in torts and breach of contract. Andrew is a co-convenor of the Obligations Discussion Group.

Horst Eidenmüller joined the Faculty of Law as a Visiting Professor in October 2009. A graduate of Cambridge (LLM 1989) and Munich University, Horst has held a research professorship at Munich University since 2003. The focus of his work is on company and insolvency law and on dispute resolution. He is known for his economic and empirical studies of important legal issues in these fields. Horst is a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. He is a member of an expert committee that advises the German Justice Ministry on issues of company and insolvency law reform. In 2011 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. In Oxford he lectures on Corporate Insolvency Law and on Comparative and European Corporate Law.

Dr Nancy Eisenhauer's main research interest is in international law, including public international law and international dispute resolution. Serves as a private consultant to States and other entities involved in international commercial arbitration and/or investor-State arbitration. Nancy Eisenhauer specialises in public international law and international dispute resolution and, when not teaching, acts as a private legal consultant in primarily investor-State, treaty-based arbitrations. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and its Law School, where she served as a Bigelow Teaching Fellow immediately upon graduation. More recently, she served as an Attorney-Adviser for the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the State Department, she practised domestic and international litigation and arbitration at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Dr Richard Ekins is a Tutorial Fellow in Law at St John's College.  He received his BA, LLB (Hons) and BA (Hons) degrees from The University of Auckland, before going on to read for the BCL, MPhil and DPhil at Oxford. He has worked as a Judge's Clerk at the High Court of New Zealand at Auckland, and a Lecturer at Balliol College, and was a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Auckland before moving (back) to Oxford in 2012.

Pavlos Eleftheriadis is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Mansfield College. He teaches and publishes in the philosophy of law, constitutional law and European Union law. He is also a barrister in England Wales and practises in EU law from Francis Taylor Building in the Temple.

Before joining Oxford he was a lecturer at  the London School of Economics. He has been a visiting professor of European Law at Columbia University and a visiting fellow in Hellenic Studies at Princeton. He was awarded the Bodossaki Prize for Law in 2005. .

His book Legal Rights was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Reviews have appeared in 121 Ethics (2011) 652-657 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/659366) , in 30 Law and Philosophy (2011) (http://www.springerlink.com/content/05u1314j76v15242/fulltext.pdf) and  in 55 American Journal of Jurisprudence (2010) 201.

He is the co-editor (with Julie Dickson) of the collection of essays The Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law (Oxford University Press, 2012) and the managing editor of the looseleaf encyclopedia D. Vaughan and A. Robertson (eds.), The Law of the EU, vols. 1-6 (Oxford University Press, 2007-2013).

He has been an active commentator on the Eurozone crisis in the press. His article on the Greek crisis, 'Only a New Political Order Can Rescue Greece', was published by the Financial Times on 28 May 2012 (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/a02f585a-a5bd-11e1-b77a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1z5cL7XUl).  His article on 'Greece's Anticapitalist Turn' was published in the Wall Street Journal on 21 January 2013  (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324624404578255452954037808.html)

You can follow him on twitter at @PEleftheriadis

Timothy Endicott has been Dean of the Faculty of Law since October 2007. He is a Fellow in Law at Balliol College, and has been a Professor of Legal Philosophy since 2006. Professor Endicott writes on Jurisprudence and Constitutional and Administrative Law, with special interests in law and language and interpretation.

He is the author of Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000), and Administrative Law (OUP 2009). After graduating with the AB in Classics and English, summa cum laude, from Harvard, he completed the MPhil in Comparative Philology in Oxford, studied Law at the University of Toronto, and practised as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. He completed the DPhil in legal philosophy in Oxford in 1998.

David Erdos is a legal researcher and political scientist who principally examines privacy and data protection law.  

David's Data Protection and the Open Society (DPOS) project examines tensions between data protection/privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of information.  It is particularly concerned with the emerging law and practice of data protection as this relates to the following issues:

• Similarities and differences in how data protection law is being interpreted and applied by national regulatory agencies, national courts and tribunals, the European Commission, the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice,
• The potential tension between data protection law and practice and freedom of expression and information, not only in the United Kingdom but also in other advanced industrialized nations (elsewhere in the EU),
• How these tensions are being practically resolved by different social actors including, in particular, academic institutions (especially in the context of the emergence of ethical review), professional journalists and citizen bloggers.

In the Hilary Term of 2009, and prior to the formal start of DPOS, David organized a seminar series “Human Investigation and Privacy in a Regulatory Age” at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies to begin the process of mapping out some of these issues. Participants within this series included academic lawyers, barristers, social scientists, medical researchers and professional journalists.  More recently in June 2012 David convened an Oxford Privacy Information Law and Society (OxPILS) Conference on "The "Right to be Forgotten" and Beyond:  Data Protection and Freedom of Expression in the Age of Web 2.0" which recieved funding from a Joint Programme between the European Union and the Council of Europe (http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/oxpilsconference).  Full information on the DPOS project is available through http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/dataprotection. A text-only version is also available at www.csls.ox.ac.uk/dp.php

Alongside this emerging work on privacy and data protection, most of David's published work to date focuses on explaining Bill of Rights outcomes in the Westminster world (the UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia).  This work looks both at the immediate triggers behind Bill of Rights adoption and on possible longer-term relationships between such projects and neoliberalism, social heterogeneity and 'postmaterialization'.  His monograph on this topic, Delegating Rights Protection, was published by Oxford University Press in the autumn of 2010.

David has presented his research at a number of academic conferences not only in the UK but also in North America and Australasia.  Recent papers given include those at the 2011 Northumbria Information Rights conference, 2010 annual conferences of the Political Science Association (UK) and the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), 2009 Biannual Conference of the Australian Bar Association, 2008 annual conference of the New Zealand Political Science Association, 2007 annual conferences of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK), Political Studies Association (UK), American Political Science Association, Canadian Political Science Association and 2006 annual conference of the Australasian Political Science Association

Core research interests

• Data Protection Laws and Practices
• Freedom of Information
• Freedom of Expression
• Bills of Rights
• Constitutional development of the UK and other Westminster/Commonwealth countries

Core teaching and supervision interests

• Information Law and Practice (including Data Protection and FOI)
• Comparative constitutional design
• Nature and future of UK constitution (and other Westminster/Commonwealth countries)
• Judicialization (especially in human rights field)
• Political science approaches to studying the law

Previous positions

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Politics, University of York

Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He serves as the Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy.

His research interests include European competition law, mergers and acquisitions and cross border transactions. His recently published papers focus on passive investments, excessive pricing, private labels and buyer power.

He is the editor of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement (OUP) and the author and editor of numerous books, including EU Competition Law, An Analytical Guide to the Leading Cases (3rd ed, 2012, Hart), Intellectual Property and Competition Law: New Frontiers (2011, OUP), Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement (2011, Hart), Article 82 EC - Reflections on its recent evolution (2009, Hart) and Private Labels, Brands and Competition Policy (2009, OUP).

He convenes the Competition Law Group and teaches competition law at graduate and undergraduate levels. He develops training and capacity building programmes in competition law and policy for the private and public sectors, including training programmes for European judges endorsed and subsidised by the European Commission. He is a member of UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform and a former Non-Governmental Advisor to the ICN.

Lucinda Ferguson is University Lecturer in Family Law, University of Oxford; Tutorial Fellow in Law, Oriel College, Oxford; and Director of Studies (Law), Regent's Park College, Oxford.  She is on leave until April 2013.  When not on leave, she is Subject Convenor for the FHS Family Law special option.  As part of the undergraduate Family Law course, she provides lecture series in Financial Provision upon Relationship Breakdown, Children's Rights, Child Protection, and Parenthood.   In 2011-12, she was awarded the Oxford University Student Union Teaching Award for the Most Acclaimed Lecturer in the Social Sciences Division.

She holds an MA in Jurisprudence (English Law with German Law) from Magdalen College, Oxford, as well as a BCL from the University of Oxford.  She also holds an LLM from Queen's University, Canada.  From 2005 to 2007, she was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alberta in Canada.  She has worked with the Law Commission of Canada and Canadian provincial governments on various matters relating to family and children's law, particularly the use of age-based rules in regulating children's entitlement to make legally effective decisions and the impact of the UNCRC on provincial government policy and practice.  Her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.  

Her research interests concentrate on family law theory.  More particularly, her work adopts an analytic lens that recognises the synchronous tensions of legal theory, empiricism, social and public policy that are frequently co-terminous (and often conflated) within the field of family law.

Lucinda is current working on three projects:  firstly, an examination of the new and developing role for the parental responsibility concept in English law; secondly, a study of the privatisation of the substance of family law through the impact of family justice reforms on married couple's regulation of their financial obligations; and thirdly, a virtue-based model for decision-making in respect of children (as a way to move forward the rights 'vs' welfare debate).

John Finnis teaches in jurisprudence, jurisprudence and political theory, and constitutional Law. Professor of Law & Legal Philosophy since 1989, and a law tutor at University College since 1966. From 1972 to 1989 Rhodes Reader in the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the United States. LL.B. (Adelaide); D.Phil. (Oxford) on the idea of judicial power, with special reference to Australian federal constitutional law, as Rhodes Scholar from South Australia at Univ. College (1962-5). Taught law at Berkeley, California, before returning to Univ. Also taught law at University of Adelaide, University of Malawi (head of law dept., on secondment from Oxford, 1976-78), and Boston College. Fellow of the British Academy. Advised a number of Australian governments on federal-State and UK-Australia constitutional relations; at the English Bar argued appeals in the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal.

Liz Fisher, BA/LLB (UNSW), D Phil (Oxon) is a Reader in Environmental Law at Corpus Christi College and UL lecturer in the Faculty of Law. She researches in the area of environmental law, risk regulation and administrative law. Much of her work has explored the interrelationship between law, administration and regulatory problems. Her work has an important comparative dimension and she focuses in particular on these issues in the legal cultures of the UK, US, Australia, the EU, and the WTO. Her 2007 book, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism, won the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2008. Recent work has focused on the problems created by interdisciplinarity in regulatory decision-making including the use of models in environmental regulation and the operational consequences of transparency in administrative law. She won an Oxford University Teaching Award in 2009 and was shortlisted for OUP National Law Teacher of the Year Award 2011. She is General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and has served as the editor of the Legislation and Reports Section of the Modern Law Review. Fisher convenes the Environmental Law courses and is the Director of the Course in Legal Research Method for first year postgraduate reseach students in the Faculty.

Charles Foster is a Fellow of Green Templeton College, a Research Associate at the Ethox and HeLEX Centres, University of Oxford, and a practising barrister. His current research interests concern human enhancement, theories of dignity, the limits of autonomy and problems of personalization in dementia. His practice at the Bar is entirely in medical law. He has been involved in many of the key cases in recent years, including Purdy in the House of Lords and Tony Nicklinson?s attempt to invoke the defence of necessity as a defence to medical murder.
A few representative publications are listed below. A full list of publications is here
Books
Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2013
Dementia: Law and Ethics: Hart (with Jonathan Herring and Israel Doron), forthcoming, 2014
Human dignity in bioethics and law: Hart, 2011
Medical Law Precedents: Wildy, 2010
Choosing Life, choosing Death ? The Tyranny of Autonomy in Medical Law and Ethics: Hart, 2009
Medical mistakes: Claerhout Law Publishers, 2008
Elements of Medical Law: Claerhout Law Publishers, 2008, and Barry Rose Law Publishers, 2005
Regulating Health Care Quality: Legal and Professional Issues: Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier Science (Editor with John Tingle and Kay Wheat)
Clinical Guidelines: Law, policy and practice: Cavendish, 2002 (editor with John Tingle).
Civil Advocacy: Cavendish (with Charles Bourne, Jacqui Gilliatt and Prashant Popat): 2nd Ed. 2001
Drafting: Cavendish, 2nd Ed. 2001 (with Elmer Doonan). Published also in Chinese, 2008.
Clinical confidentiality: Monitor Press, 2000 (with Nick Peacock)
Disclosure and Confidentiality: FT Law and Tax, 1996 (with T. Wynn and N. Ainley)
Book chapters
The relationship between medical ethics, law and professionalism, in Medical Ethics and Law At a Glance, Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming, 2013
What is health? In Current Legal Issues, OUP, 2013 (with Jonathan Herring)
Report writing and appearing in court: in Wildlife Forensics: Principles and Practice, Ed John and Margaret Cooper, Taylor and Francis, forthcoming, 2013
Veterinary Negligence: in Professional Negligence and Liability, Ed Mark Simpson, Informa/LLP, 2012 (and in previous editions since 2008)
The Carmentis Machine: Legal and ethical issues in the use of neuroimaging to guide treatment withdrawal in newborn infants (with Dominic Wilkinson). In Law and Neuroscience,Ed Michael Freeman, Current Legal Issues Vol. 13, OUP, 2011
Pre-trial clinical negligence issues: In Patient Safety Law: Policy and Practice, Ed John Tingle and Pippa Bark, Routledge, 2011
Challenging the Inquiry: In Public Inquiries, Ed. Jason Beer, OUP, 2011
Oral feeding difficulties and dilemmas: A guide to practical care, particularly towards the end of life: Royal College of Physicians, London (co-author: member of Working Party), 2010
What is the criminal law for? Chapter in ?Advancing Opportunity: routes in and out of criminal justice?, Ed Rob Allen, Smith Institute.
Family law in the Caucasus and Central Asia: 1800: In Encyclopaedia of Women and Islam: Brill Press, 2006
It should be, therefore it is: In Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Oxford University Press: Ed. Emily Jackson, 2006.
Personal Injury Law and Precedents: Jordans/APIL: (contributor) 2006 and subsequent editions to 2010.
Disciplinary jurisdiction over the medical and other healthcare professions, in Regulating Health Care Quality: Legal and Professional Issues: Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier Science (Editor, Foster, Tingle and Wheat), 2004
Civil procedure, trial issues and clinical guidelines, in Clinical Guidelines: Law, policy and practice: Cavendish, 2002 (Edited Foster and Tingle)
Negligence: the legal perspective. In Nursing Law and Ethics: Blackwell Scientific. 2nd Ed, 2002, and subsequent editions in 2006,  2009 and 2013). Ed. Tingle and Cribb.
Healthcare Law: The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (Ed. Garwood-Gowers, Tingle and Lewis): Cavendish, 2001: Chapter on Access, Procedure and the Human Rights Act 1998 in Medical Cases.
Articles
Submitted
Autonomy in the courtroom: a principle fit for purpose? Journal of Moral Philosophy (invited contribution for the Essex Autonomy project special issue of JMP)
Forthcoming
When autonomy kills: the case of Ben Garci (with Mirko Garasic) Medicine and Law
Published
Response to McGee re The Double Effect Effect (with Jonathan Herring, Karen Melham and Tony Hope): Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
The elephant in the (board) room: the role of contract research organisations in international clinical research (with Aisha Malik): American Journal of Bioethics (2012) 12(11) 49-50
Putting dignity to work: The Lancet (2012) 379: 9831; 2044-2045
Should female cosmetic genital surgery and genital piercing be regarded ethically and legally as female genital mutilation? (with Brenda Kelly): British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 2012: DOI 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2011.03260x
?Please don?t tell me?: The right not to know. (with Jonathan Herring). Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2012) 21, 20-29
Welfare means relationality, virtue and altruism (with Jonathan Herring), Legal Studies 480
If you ask the wrong question, you?ll get the wrong answer: Journal of Medical Ethics: 2012: doi. 10.1136/mediethics-2012-100682
What sort of DNAR order is that? (with Tony Hope), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2012) 105; 279
Dignity and the ownership of body parts: Journal of Medical Ethics, doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-100763
Assisted Suicide: Engaging with the debate: Living and Dying Well, November 2012
The Double Effect Effect (with Jonathan Herring, Karen Melham and Tony Hope): Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2011) 20(1): 46-55
Autonomy, Consent and the law: Review of the book of that name, by Sheila McLean: Mortality: 15(2): 178-179
?Please don?t tell me?: The Right Not to Know? (2011) 21 Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (with Jonathan Herring) 1-10
Autonomy should chair, not rule: The Lancet, Vol. 375(9712):368-69
Why doctors should get a life: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 102(12) 519-520
Autonomy and Welfare as Amici curiae (with Mikey Dunn): Medical Law Review, 2010
Turning a blind eye to crime: health professionals and the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (with Tony Hope and Sally Hope): British Journal of General Practice 60(570); 64-65(2)
Abortion: Three perspectives. Review of the book of that name by Tooley, Devine and Jaggar: Contemporary Review
Bad laws: Review of the book of that name, by Philip Johnston, Contemporary Review, Winter 2010
Advance directives and personality-changing illness: British Journal of Nursing (2010) Vol 19, No. 15; 926-927
Medical law too often doffs its cap to the doctor?s white coat: The Times, 21 May 2009, Law p. 66
The NHS should not treat self-inflicted illness: Oxford University online debate with Dr. Mark Sheehan
Blaming the patient: Contributory negligence in medical malpractice litigation (with Jonathan Herring): Professional Negligence (2009) Vol. 25(2): 76-90
Animal-Human hybrids: Do theology or philosophy help? Law and Justice: (2008) No. 160: 6-12
Nutritional support at the end of life: legal issues: European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology 19(5): 389 (May 2007)
Simple rationality? The law of healthcare resource allocation in England. Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007; 33: 404-407
Should nurses perform surgical abortion? Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care (2007) Vol. 33(3): 221
Blair?s laws: an audit of a depressing decade: Contemporary Review, Autumn 2007, p. 304
Submissions from non-existent claimants: The non-identity problem and the law : Medicine and Law: Volume 25 Number 1 (March 2006) (with Professor Tony Hope and Dr. John McMillan)
Always look on the bright side of life: The case of Re MB: Healthcare Risk Report, June 2006, Vol. 12(7): p. 23
The edge of life and the edge of the law: Re MB. Family Law Journal, June 2006, No. 67: p. 8
The role of clinical guidelines in medical negligence litigation: A shift from the Bolam standard? : (with Ash Samanta, Michelle Mello, John Tingle and Jo Samanta): Medical Law Review, 14, Autumn 2006 pp.321-366
Law and the Brain (Review): British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 189: 570
Will clinical guidelines replace judges? Medicine and Law (2006), Vol. 25: 4: 586-592
Misrepresentations about prognosis and palliative options: some legal considerations: Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, January 2005.
What is man, that the judges are mindful of him? Lessons from the PVS cases: Journal of Philosophy, Science and Law, Vol. 5, September 2005
What autonomy really means: British Medical Journal: 2005; 331: 841-2 (8 October 2005)
?Pro-choice? ought to mean exactly what it says: The Times: 11 October 2005: Law section p. 10
Burke: A tale of unhappy endings: Journal of Personal Injury Law: December 2005, p. 293: [2005] JPIL Issue 4/05: 293 and on the website of the UK Clinical Ethics Network.
Pro-life lobby and its pyrrhic victories: The Times, 26 October 2004: Law section, p. 5
Those about to die must be told all the facts: (Issues of consent in euthanasia): The Times, 3 June 2003: Law section, p. 5
International law: Another casualty of the Iraq War? Contemporary Review, August 2003, p. 76
The questions to ask a husband (or wife) before sex (R v Mohammed Dica): The Times, 21 October 2003: Law Section, p. 6
The price of super-specialism: The demise of the common lawyer: New Law Journal, Vol. 152 No. 7046: p. 1297 (6 September 2002)
Consent and confidentiality: Legal implications of electronic transmission of prescriptions
(With Professor Joy Wingfield): Pharmaceutical Journal, 7 September 2002, (Vol. 269), p. 328.
Plunge in the deep end of the gene pool: The Times, 19 November 2002: Law section p. 4
Fifty glorious legal years? English law during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II: Contemporary Review, December 2002, p. 321

Sandra Fredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford.  She has written and published widely on anti-discrimination law, human rights law and labour law, including numerous peer-reviewed articles, and three monographs: Human Rights Transformed (OUP 2008); Discrimination Law (2nd ed, OUP 2011); and Women and the Law (OUP 1997),as well as two co-authored books: The State as Employer (Mansell, 1988), with Gillian Morris, and Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Great Britain (2nd ed Kluwer, 1992) with Bob Hepple. She has also edited several books: Discrimination and Human Rights: The Case of Racism (OUP,2001); and Age as an Equality Issue (Hart, 2003) with Sarah Spencer; and has written numerous articles in peer-reviewed law journals. She was awarded a three year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2004 to further her research into socio-economic rights and substantive equality. She is South African and holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Oxford.. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labour legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the UK, India, South Africa, Canada and the UN; and is a barrister practising at Old Square Chambers.

Judith Freedman is Professor of Taxation Law and a Fellow of Worcester College. She worked in the corporate tax department of Freshfields before joining the University of Surrey as a lecturer in law in 1980. She then moved to the London School of Economics (LSE) with a secondment to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies as Senior Research Fellow in Company and Commercial Law from 1989-92. Whilst at the LSE, she lectured and researched on tax and company law. At Oxford, her focus is taxation, particularly corporate and business taxation, but she has a continuing interest in related areas of corporate law, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, the interaction between law and accounting and small businesses. She participated in the establishment of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and is now its Director of Legal Research and a member of its Steering Committee and Advisory Board She has served on a number of Law Society, DTI and Inland Revenue Committees and advisory groups and was a member of the Company Law Review's working party on small companies. She is currently a member of the Office of Tax Simplification Consultative Committee on Small Business Taxation and the Tax Avoidance Study Group appointed to report to the Exchequer Secretary on the question of a General Anti-avoidance Rule. She has held the Anton Philips Visiting Chair at the University of Tilburg and is an Adjunct  Professor in the Australian School of Taxation and Business Law, University of New South Wales. She is the general editor of the British Tax Review and is on the editorial boards of the Modern Law Review, the eJournal of Tax Research, The Canadian Tax Journal, The Australian Tax Review and The Tax Journal. She is a member of the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a member of the Tax Law Review Committee, and was one of the few lawyers contributing to the Mirrlees report 'Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century. Further information about tax at Oxford can be found on the tax pages of the Faculty of Law website.

Iginio Gagliardone is British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the Centre for Socio Legal Studies. He is also Research Associate at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge and at the Centre for Global Communication Studies (CGCS), Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

He completed his PhD at the LSE investigating the relationship between Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and nation building in Ethiopia.

Denis Galligan, DCL 2000, BCL 1974, MA 1976, LL.B. (Queensland) 1970,

Barrister Gray's Inn 1996 and Queensland; 1971, Rhodes Scholar for Queensland 1971, Br Acad Wolfson Research Fellow 1981. Professor of Socio-Legal Studies 1993 - continuing; Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies  1993 - 2008; University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow, Wolfson College, 1993- continuing .

Formerly: Lecturer, UCL, 1974-76, Fellow, Jesus College. Oxford, and CUF Lecturer, 1976-81, Senior Lecturer Melbourne, 1982-84, Professor of Law 1985-93, Dean 1987-90. Southampton, Professor of Law, Sydney, 1990-92.

John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence and a Fellow of University College. He was formerly Reader in Legal Philosophy at King's College London (1996-2000), Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford (1991-6) and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-91). He has also held visiting positions at Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Texas, Princeton University, the Australian National University and the University of Auckland. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Called to the Bar in 1988, he has been a Bencher of the Inner Temple since 2002 (although he does not practice).

Simon Gardner took a BA in law and a BCL at Oxford, then worked for a year as a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, before moving to a fellowship at Lincoln College and joining the Oxford law faculty. He has also undertaken other roles within Lincoln College (including Sub-Rector, Dean, and Tutor for Admissions) and the Oxford law faculty (including Chair of the Faculty Board, and Director of Graduate Studies responsible for the BCL and MJur programmes). He works principally in the fields of property law and criminal law, normally giving tutorials (for which he has received a Teaching Excellence Award) in Land Law, Trusts, and Criminal Law, and lectures in Land Law and Trusts. He is currently convenor of the faculty's Land Law and Trusts groups. He is an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.

Rob George holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College. Dr George is a leading expert on relocation disputes, which are legal cases between separated parents where one of them proposes to move to a new geographic location with their child. His main research project from 2012 to 2014 looks at how these disputes are resolved in the trial courts of England and Wales, by looking at unreported case judgments and the experiences of lawyers and parents. (More information about this research can be found on the project page.)

More generally, Dr George's research interests are in child and family law, broadly conceived, with a particular emphasis on international and comparative aspects of the law and its practice. Dr George has strong links with practising lawyers, including being an Associate Member of Harcourt Chambers, and he is regularly consulted by practitioners about aspects of family law. He is also interested in legal policy-making, making frequent submissions to legal consultations, talking with policy-makers, officials and journalists, and writing an occasional blog on law and related areas.

Dr George works as Case Notes Editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, and is a member of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and of the Society of Legal Scholars. He welcomes enquiries about his research from academics, practising lawyers, policy-makers, journalists and others, and is happy to discuss potential research topics with prospective research students.

Joshua Getzler was appointed in 1993. In his modern legal research he is working on the duties of investment agents in financial markets, on the legal and economic structure of debt and equity, on the tortious and contractual liability of entities, and on theories of co-ownership and fiduciary duty. In his historical research he is working on the relationships of public finance and private banking and investment, and the evolution of trust, corporate and charitable forms, in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He is also studying the role of the lord chancellors in law and politics before the Great Reform Act, from Macclesfield and King through to Hardwicke and Eldon. His first degrees in law and history were taken at the Australian National University in Canberra, and his doctorate in Oxford, as a member of Balliol and Nuffield Colleges. He has taught and researched at the Australian National University, the Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, and most recently at the University of Pennsylvania as Bok Visiting International Professor of Law in 2012. He maintains links to Australia as Conjoint Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales.

Dr Nazila Ghanea is University Lecturer in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College (BA Keele, MA Leeds, PhD Keele, MA Oxon). She was the founding editor of the international journal of Religion and Human Rights and now serves on its Editorial Board as well as the Advisory Board of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. She has been a visiting academic at a number of institutions including Columbia and NYU, and previously taught at the University of London and Keele University, UK and in China. Nazila’s research spans freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression, women’s rights, minority rights and human rights in the Middle East. Her publications include nine books, three UN publications as well as a number of journal articles and reports. Her research has been funded by the Open Society Institute, the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. She has been invited to address UN expert seminars on four occasions. She is currently part of a research term investigating ‘Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality in England and Wales: Theory, Policy and Practice’ (2010-2013). She has also received a number of university scholarships and academic awards. Nazila has acted as a human rights consultant/expert for a number of governments, the UN, UNESCO, OSCE, Commonwealth, Council of Europe and the EU. She has facilitated international human rights law training for a range of professional bodies around the world, lectured widely and carried out first hand human rights field research in a number of countries including Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. She is a regular contributor to the media on human rights matters. This coverage has included BBC World Service, BBC Woman’s Hour, The Times, Radio Free Europe, The Guardian, Avvenire, The Telegraph, The National (UAE), New Statesman, Sveriges Radio, TA3 Slovakia and El Pais.

Dr Gilles Giacca is a Research Fellow at the Law Faculty and Co-ordinator of the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations programme. He holds a MA from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva and a LLM from the University of Essex and holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Geneva and IHEID.

Between 2006 and 2012, Gilles Giacca was teaching assistant and then research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law. Gilles has advised States, international organizations and NGOs on matters of international law. He has also provided training on international law to diplomats and practitioners.

His teaching interests include the law of armed conflict and international human rights law. He regularly delivers lectures for the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action (CERAH) and for the Advanced Training Course on Monitoring Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva.

Professor Guy S. Goodwin Gill is also Professor of International Refugee Law, was formerly Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and served as a Legal Adviser in the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1976-1988. He practises as a Barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London, and he has written extensively on refugees, migration, international organizations, elections, democratization, and child soldiers; Recent publications include/ The Refugee in International Law/, (OUP, 2007), 3rd edn. with Dr Jane McAdam; /Free and Fair Elections/, (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2nd edn., 2006); /Basic Documents on Human Rights/, (OUP, 2006), 5th edn., with Ian Brownlie, eds.

Imogen Goold studied Law and Modern History at the University of Tasmania, Australia, receiving her PhD in 2005. Her doctoral research explored the use of property law to regulate human body parts. She also received a Masters degree in Bioethics from the University of Monash in 2005. From 1999, she was a research member of the Centre for Law and Genetics, where she published on surrogacy laws, legal constraints on access to infertility treatments and proprietary rights in human tissue. In 2002, she took up as position as a Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission, working on the inquiries into Genetic Information Privacy and Gene Patenting. After leaving the ALRC in 2004, she worked briefly at the World Health Organisation, researching the provision of genetic medical services in developing countries. She is now examining the impact of moral arguments on the regulation of IVF and also writing a book based on her work on body part ownership.

James Goudkamp is Fellow and Tutor, Balliol College, Oxford, and University Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

James completed his undergraduate studies (BSc/LLB (Hons)) at the University of Wollongong and his postgraduate degrees (BCL (Dist), MPhil (Dist), DPhil) at Magdalen College, Oxford.

James was previously Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law, Jesus College, Oxford (2009-2011), Lecturer in Law, St Hilda's College, Oxford (2008-2009), Associate to the Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG of the High Court of Australia (2005-2006) and Associate Lecturer in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong (2003-2005).

James holds or has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School, the National University of Singapore, the University of Western Australia and the University of Wollongong.

Les Green is the Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College.  He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor of Law and Distinguished University Fellow at Queen's University in Canada.  After beginning his teaching career as a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.  He has also been a visiting professor at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin.  Professor Green writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy.  He serves on the board of several journals and is co-editor of the annual Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law and of the book series Oxford Legal Philosophy.

Sarah Green graduated from Balliol with a first class degree in Jurisprudence before going on to gain an Msc from the Said Business School the following year. She then worked for Accenture as an IT and Management Consultant in London and Dublin before returning to academic life. Having worked at the University of Birmingham for a number of years, Sarah joined the Oxford Law Faculty in September 2010, as a fellow of St Hilda's College. Sarah's research currently focuses on the interface between tort and property, with a particular emphasis on the actions dealing with wrongful interference with assets, and on the law's treatment of intangibles. She has also worked on the tort of negligence and, more specifically, the causal element of the negligence inquiry and her work in this area has been cited by both the High Court and the House of Lords. Sarah has recently published The Tort of Conversion (Hart Publishing, 2009) with John Randall QC, the first major work on the subject in English law. She has published various articles on aspects of tort and sale of goods in a wide range of journals, including the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, Journal of Business Law, Law Quarterly Review, Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Medical Law Review and Modern Law Review. In terms of teaching, Sarah's principal interests lie in Torts, Property, Contract, Domestic and International Sale of Goods and Advanced Obligations, reflecting her research interests in the fields of private law and commercial law.

Katharine Grevling, LL.B. (Tasmania), MA, BCL, D.Phil. (Oxford)

Louise Gullifer has been teaching at Oxford since 1991. Before that she practised at the Commercial Bar in chambers at 3 Gray's Inn Place (now 3 Verulam Buildings), under her maiden name (Louise Edwards). She remains an honorary member of those chambers. She teaches Roman law, Contract law, Commercial Law, Corporate Finance law and Corporate Insolvency law and is the senior law tutor at Harris Manchester College. From 1994-97 she was a Fellow of Brasenose College.   She is Chair of the University Student Disciplinary Panel and has been the Oxford Law Faculty Development Co-ordinator.    

Her research interests focus broadly on commercial law and corporate finance.   She has co-authored books on security and title financing and corporate finance, and is presently co-authoring books on personal property and set-off in arbitration.    She is particularly interested in financial collateral and intermediated securities, and recently delivered a Current Legal Problems lecture on financial collateral.    She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Secured Transaction Law Reform Project (see http://securedtransactionsproject.wordpress.com/) and is also the Oxford Law Faculty Academic Lead for the Cape Town Convention Academic Project (see http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/newsitem=365).

Noam Gur has been Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law at Lincoln College since 2009. Before that he read Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he graduated with a BCL (Dist), MPhil (Dist), and DPhil. He obtained his first degree in Law (LLB, summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

He teaches Jurisprudence and Tort Law, and his primary research interests are in jurisprudence and related areas of political theory and applied ethics. His current research topics include legal normativity, authority and practical reason, and political obligation, as well as ethical aspects of civil liability for injuries sustained before birth. He is currently completing a book on law and practical reason, which is due to be published by Oxford University Press in 2014.

Christopher Hare is a CUF Lecturer in Law and a Fellow of Somerville College. Christopher was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge and was in the first cohort of students to spend their third year at the University of Poiters, France. He then spent a year at Harvard Law School (LLM) and read for the BCL at Brasenose College.

Christopher initially practised as a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn before moving to a fellowship and college lectureship at Jesus College, Cambridge.

He has spent the last seven years in New Zealand, where he was a Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty at the University of Auckland. Christopher's teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies.

Nicholas Hatzis is Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall and a Senior Lecturer at City University London. Previously he was Référendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Maduro at the European Court of Justice. His interests are in public law, torts, EU law, civil procedure and media law.

Keith Hawkins (LL.B Birm., Dipl Criminol., MA, PhD Cantab.) retired from active teaching in October 2006. His research interests are in the sociology of legal processes, and are concerned with legal decision making and the workings of governmental regulation in such areas as environmental control, and occupational health and safety regulations.

Geneviève Helleringer (JD Columbia, Doct Sorbonne, MSc Essec Business School)  is a fellow of St Catherine's college and joined the Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL) from the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Dr Helleringer has worked over the three precedent years on comparative contract law, pluralism and European legal culture, contributing to the emerging academic study of European private law. This work has involved a study of the emerging common European contract culture  and has provided evidence that  contract clauses have a potential to serve as lingua communis and to improve the way commercial and consumer contracts work.

 Genevieve  has more recenlty engaged in an empirical study of private regulation of disputes. Her main focus is on the conflict of interests deriving thereof, in commercial arbitration as well as corporate and financial market disputes. In this endeavour, she increasingly relies on findings from behavioural studies.

Jonathan Herring has written on criminal, family and medical law. He focuses on how the law interacts with the important things in life: not money, companies or insurance; but love, friendship and intimacy. In his work he seeks to develop ways in the law can recognise and value the goods in activities such as carework and sex, while protecting people from the harms that so often result. Criminal Law Jonathan Herring has written two best-selling textbooks on criminal law. He has researched the law on sexual offences, crimes against corpses and failures of parents to protect children from death. Elder Law Jonathan Herring has written a leading monograph on the law’s treatment of older people. He has also published on legal issues surrounding dementia. Family Law Jonathan Herring has written a popular textbook in this subject and has edited several books on theoretical issues in family law. He has examined the way the law balances the interests and rights of children and parents. He has also analyzed legal disputes over contact between children and parents and issues surrounding children's rights. He is a member of the editorial board for the Family Court Reports and is an editor for the Child and Family Law Quarterly. Medical Law Jonathan Herring has written a leading textbook on this subject. He has written on the regulation of pregnancy and enforced medical treatment. He has also co-authored with Dr P-L Chau a series of papers on the medical and legal definition of sex, with particular consideration of intersex people and issues surrounding human cloning. He has also written on the ownership of body parts and bodily fluids, as part of a project for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. He is currently working on legal issues surrounding carers.

 Andrew is a departmental lecturer in civil procedure. From 2008 to 2011 he was the career development fellow in civil procedure at the law faculty and University college. He completed a BA/LLB (hons) at the University of Melbourne in 2001 and the BCL in 2005. In 2011 Andrew completed his Dphil at the University of Oxford on legal professional privilege, specifically as it applies to corporations.  He has been a visiting scholar with NYU's Hauser Global Law School Program and an occasional guest lecturer in civil procedure at Melbourne Law School.

Between 1997 and 2007 Andrew worked as a paralegal, solicitor, and associate at the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon. His main area of practice was tobacco litigation. For his work on McCabe v British American Tobacco he was nominated for the Australian Plaintiff Lawyer's Association Civil Justice Award (becoming the youngest ever official nominee for the award) and received an award for his contribution to public health from a coalition of public health NGOs. He has advised the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on whether the use of light and mild descriptors for cigarettes constituted misleading advertising, and assisted the US Department of Justice on its RICO claim against the US tobacco industry: US v Philip Morris et al. Andrew has also worked on a number of mass tort class actions and ran an asbestos practice.

Andrew is also a member of the Victorian Bar. His main research interests are civil procedure, tort and causation.

Laura Hoyano graduated from the University of Alberta in Canada with two degrees in medieval history before being converted to law, receiving a JD (Gold Medallist) from the University of Alberta. She was called to the Alberta Bar in 1983 and practised commercial, insurance and catastrophic personal injury law for 10 years, interrupted by a sabbatical year in 1990-91 to read for the B.C.L. at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1994 she decided to return to academic life, moving to England to accept an academic appointment at the Law Faculty of the University of Bristol. In 1999 she was elected to a Tutorial Fellowship and CUF Lectureship at Wadham College in Oxford, where she teaches Tort Law, European Human Rights, Medical Law and Ethics and Evidence. In 2009 she was elected as a Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, with an advisory role concerning the enhancement of diversity at the English Bar. She has conducted empirical research for the Crown Prosecution Service and the Home Office on prosecutorial decision making and on child abuse prosecutions. She chairs the Independent Advisory Committee on Child Maltreatment convened by Action for Children, which drafted a new offence of child maltreatment which is currently before Parliament. In December 2012 she was invited by the Verma Committee on Amendments to the Criminal Law, appointed as a consequence of  the furore sparked by a gang rape and murder in December 2012, to advise them on reform of substantive sexual assault offences for adults, children and other vulnerable persons, and a range of issues pertaining to more effective trials of such offences, including special measures for vulnerable witnesses, her contribution being acknowledged in the Report and in the national press conference held by Chief Justice Verma. She has recently been consulted by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabularies and the NSPCC with regard to their enquiries into the investigation of sexual abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile. She is also frequently consulted by the Ministry of Justice, the Crown Prosecution Service and the Criminal Bar Association on a range of issues relating to child abuse and exploitation prosecutions.

Professor Carolyn Hoyle has been at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology since 1991. She has published empirical and theoretical research on a number of criminological topics including domestic violence, policing, restorative justice and the death penalty. She teaches and conducts research on: 'Restorative Justice'; 'The Death Penalty'; 'Victims'; 'Race, Gender and Criminal Justice' and ‘Miscarriages of Justice’, and supervises DPhil, MPhil and MSc students on these and other criminological topics. She is currently conducting research into applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission concerning alleged miscarriages of justice.

Emily Hudson joined the University of Oxford in January 2012 as Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property Law (associated with St Peter’s College). In addition to her work in intellectual property law, Emily also researches in personal property law and law as it relates to cultural institutions and the arts.

She has previously worked for the University of Queensland (Lecturer and Director of Mooting Programs) and the University of Melbourne (Research Fellow, CMCL and IPRIA), and for three years was a solicitor at Minter Ellison Lawyers.

She holds a BSc(Hons), LLB(Hons), LLM and PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis used empirical techniques to analyse how cultural institutions in the US, Canada and Australia understand and apply exceptions to copyright infringement.

In 2000, she was a member of the University of Melbourne team that won the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.

Murray Hunt is a Visiting Professor from 1st January 2011, working on the AHRC funded research project on 'Parliaments and Human Rights'. He is currently Legal Advisor to the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights. He was a key founding member of Matrix Chambers, London and has specialised in human rights law and public law.

Birke Häcker is a Fifty-Pound Fellow of All Souls College where she was previously an Examination Fellow (from 2001 to 2008). In 2007/08 she taught as a Stipendiary Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall. She now works in Munich as a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance and holds a Lectureship at the Law Faculty of Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

LL.M. (Harvard Law School), BA (Oxon). Miles is a Departmental Lecturer in Law and a College Lecturer at St Anne's College. His doctoral research, supported by a Rhodes Scholarship, is on complicity in international law. He teaches European Human Rights Law at the faculty and Constitutional Law and Administrative Law for St Anne's College.

Miles is a former clerk of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and a former chair of Oxford Pro Bono Publico.

Mark Janis is a Visiting Fellow at the Law Faculty and a Fellow Commoner at The Queen's College, where he studied law as a Rhodes scholar. He has also been Reader in Law for the Faculty and a Law Fellow at Exeter College. He is William F. Starr Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law where he teaches International Law and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He has written a number of scholarly articles and several books including The American Tradition of International Law (OUP 2004), International Law (Aspen 5th ed. 2008), International Law Cases and Commentary (with J.E. Noyes, West 3d ed. 2006), and European Human Rights Law (with R.S. Kay & A.W. Bradley, OUP 3rd ed. 2008).

Angus Johnston is a CUF Lecturer and a Fellow in Law at University College, where he arrived in September 2010.

He read for the B.A. (Law with Law Studies in Europe) and the B.C.L. at Brasenose College and was elected to the Vinerian Scholarship in 1999. He read for the LL.M. in European Union Law and was also Lecturer at the Institute for Anglo-American Law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1997-8.

He was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 1999) and University Lecturer (from 2004) and then Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University (from 2008) until his appointment to Oxford. He has been a visitor to Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg; he is also an affiliated lecturer at Cambridge University and at the Jacobs University, Bremen.

Aileen Kavanagh, BCL, MA (University College Dublin); MLE (Hanover); DPhil (Oxon), is a Reader in Law and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She teaches and researches in the areas of constitutional and administrative law, human rights and constitutional theory. After completing her DPhil in constitutional theory at Balliol College, Oxford, she was a Lecturer in Law (2000-06) and Reader (2006-9) at the University of Leicester. She is on the editorial board of Law and Philosophy and Jurisprudence: An International Journal of Law and Philosophy. Recent publications include her book Constitutional Review under the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (CUP, 2009). Her current research focuses on constitutionalism and counter-terrorism, the doctrine of proportionality, and the separation of powers.

Jane Kaye is Director of the Centre for Law, Health and Emerging Technologies at Oxford: (HeLEX) based in the Department of Public Health at the University of Oxford. She obtained her degrees from the Australian National University (BA); University of Melbourne (LLB); and University of Oxford (DPhil). She was admitted to practice as a solicitor/barrister in 1997. She is advisor to a number of F7 projects and on the Sample and Ethics Committee of the 1000 Genomes Project; International Scientific Advisory Board Canadians for Tomorrow Project; UK10K Ethics Advisory Group and Chair of the CARTaGENE International Scientific Advisory Board, Canada. She is also on the editorial boards of Law, Innovation and Technology, Journal of Law and Information Science, and Genomics, Policy and Society.

Her research involves investigating the relationships between law, ethics, and practice in the area of emerging technologies in health. The main focus is on genomics with an emphasis on biobanks, privacy, data-sharing frameworks, global governance and translational research. Her full profile is available at http://helex.medsci.ox.ac.uk/

Tarun Khaitan is a lecturer and fellow at Wadham College. He is one of the faculty members on the Executive Committee of the Oxford Pro Bono Publico. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA LLB Hons) at the National Law School (Bangalore) between 1999-2004. He then came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed his postgraduate studies (BCL with distinction, MPhil with distinction, DPhil) at Exeter College. Before joining Wadham, he was the Penningtons Student in Law at Christ Church. 

Tarun is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Autonomy, Discrimination and the Law'.

Dori Kimel is Fellow and Senior Law Tutor at New College. Having completed his D.Phil he took up a lectureship at University College London, then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship at New College in 2001. His teaching and research interests are in legal, moral and political philosophy, criminal law, and contract law theory. Amongst his publications is the book From Promise to Contract: Towards a Liberal Theory of Contract (Oxford 2003).

Dr Jaakko Kuosmanen is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law. He received his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2012, and between 2008-2012 he has lectured on human rights law, global justice, and just war theory. Jaakko's research focuses primarily on legal as well as philosophical dimensions of human rights.

Marina Kurkchiyan joined the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in 1999 as the Peter North Fellow and Research Fellow of Keble College. In 2001 she was appointed Centre Research Fellow. From 2003 she was Paul Dodyk Fellow and Research Fellow of Wolfson College and took up her present position in 2007.

Dr Kurkchiyan is a sociologist who specialises in legal culture and the impact of public policy on social structure and human behaviour. She has conducted research in many countries including Ukraine, Russia and the regions bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian. As a consultant to the World Bank, the DfID, the Open Society Institute and the UNDP she has completed a number of official reports on the interaction between law and society in relation to development. Her academic papers have appeared in several languages and have dealt with the socio-legal aspects of education, poverty relief, the informal economy, respect for law and health care. Her current research examines the transplanting of legal institutions from the West into Post-Communist societies, particularly the efforts made in Russia since 2000 to create voluntary councils for media outlets that would enable newspapers, TV and radio to regulate themselves and thereby avoid censorship, litigation and intimidation.

Maris Köpcke Tinturé teaches Jurisprudence and Criminal Law for Worcester and Brasenose Colleges. In 2009 she completed a D.Phil. at University College Oxford on legal validity and law's moral claim, supervised by Prof. John Finnis and Prof. John Gardner. She's interested in most areas of legal philosophy and criminal law theory, and further interested in Roman Law and the organization of certain fundamental legal categories in civil and common law jurisdictions. She's also working on the emerging idea of 'bullying'.

Prior to coming to Oxford, Maris studied Law at ESADE (Barcelona), and read for LL.M.s at the European Academy of Legal Theory (Brussels) and Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA).

At Oxford, Maris had been Graduate Teaching Assistant in Jurisprudence (2005-06) and co-convener of the Jurisprudence Discussion Group (2005-09).

Nicola Lacey holds a Senior Research Fellowship at All Souls College. She moved to Oxford in October 2010, having held a chair in Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the London School of Economics since 1998. Before that, she was Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London (1995 to 1997); Fellow and Tutor in Law at New College and CUF Lecturer at Oxford (1984 to 1995); and Lecturer in Laws at University College, London (1981 to 1984). She has held visiting appointments at the Humboldt University in Berlin, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, New York University, Yale and Harvard. She is an Honorary Fellow of New College and of University College, and a Fellow of the British Academy. 

In December 2011 she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern: http://www.diesacademicus.unibe.ch/content/diesacademicus2011/preise/index_ger.html

Nicola's research is in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on comparative and historical scholarship. Over the last few years, she has been working on the development of ideas of criminal responsibility in England since the 18th Century, and on the comparative political economy of punishment. Her next project will be a comparative study combining analysis of penal policies with analysis of practices of legal responsibility-attribution in selected areas of criminalisation, framing these issues within a broad comparative political economy of crime and control. Nicola also has research interests in legal and social theory, in feminist analysis of law, in law and literature, and in biography.

Grant Lamond is University Lecturer in Legal Philosophy and the Felix Frankfurter Fellow in Law, Balliol College. He holds degrees in Philosophy and Law from the University of Sydney and took the BCL at Magdalen College. He was a Junior Research Fellow at St Edmund Hall, where he completed his DPhil. His research interests lie in the philosophy of law and the philosophy of criminal law.

Bettina Lange joined the Law Faculty and Wolfson College in July 2007, having previously worked in the law departments of Aberystwyth and Keele University, UK. She trained in law and sociology at Warwick University, UK and before that studied for two years law at the Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany. Her research examines legal regulation from a socio-legal perspective. She is currently working on a project on the invocation of emotion discourses in the legal regulation of genetically modified organisms in UK agriculture. This project investigates the role that appeals to emotions play in the administrative legal decision-making procedure about the release of GMOs into the environment under UK and EU law. She also works together with Prof. Nafsika Alexiadou (Umea University, Sweden) on a research project which examines different styles of policy learning in open methods of co-ordination as applied to education policies in the European Union. This project examines how the European Union seeks to enhance its governance capacity in relation to education policies in the EU through soft regulatory tools, such as policy learning. Bettina was a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy from September 2004 to January 2005. She  has conducted consultancy for the Environment Agency in England and Wales and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Environmental Law of Landmark Chambers. Her core research interests are - EU, UK and German environmental regulation - Qualitative empirical socio-legal research methods, including discourse analysis - The application of new modes of European governance to education policies - Socio-legal theories of regulation, including the role of emotions in regulatory processes. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, the ESRC, the SLSA and the John-Fell Fund. She serves on the editorial board of  Law and Policy, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the European Journal of Risk Regulation.

Liora Lazarus, BA (UCT), LLB (LSE), DPhil (Oxon), is a University Lecturer in Law, Member of the Centre for Criminological Research, and Fellow of St. Anne's College. Her primary research interests are in comparative human rights, security and human rights, comparative theory and comparative criminal justice. Born and raised in South Africa, she studied African Economic History at the University of Cape Town and Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 1994-95 she was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany. She came to Oxford in 1995 to write her doctorate at Balliol College, after which she went on to become a law fellow at St Anne's College. She is the author of a number of academic books, chapters and articles on prisoners' rights and security and human rights. She has also completed a number of public reports on various aspects of human rights for the UK Ministry of Justice, The UK Stern Review into the treatment of Rape Complaints, and the European Union Parliament. 

Liora is an Associate Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub (http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/themes/humanrightshub/), and is actively involved in the work of Oxford Pro Bono Publico (which she co-founded), and the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group. She is also a research associate at the Centre for Legal and Applied Research, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, and the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. She is the book review editor of the European Human Rights Law Review, and she sits on the editorial board of the Oxford University Comparative Law Forum and the Journal of Human Rights Practice. She is also a member of an expert advisory group of the Equality and Human Rights Commission which is undertaking an independent review into the existing domestic arrangements for the protection and promotion of socio-economic rights.

Currently, Liora is completing an edited collection entitled Adjudicating Human Rights Diversely. Liora has most recently been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship which will commence in October 2012 and will enable her to undertake research towards the completion of a monograph entitled Juridifying Security and a number of associated articles.  She is also part of an interdisciplinary group - investigating Human Rights for Future Generations - which has recently received 3 years of support from the Oxford Martin School (http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/newsitem=471).

Ed Leahy has lectured regularly at Oxford since 1998 and joined the Law Faculty in 2011. He has taught in the areas of securities law, cyberlaw, the law of international telecommunications, conflicts of laws and US litigation and international dispute resolution and he has published extensively in these and other areas. He has been a partner in major New York and Washington law firms where he represented clients in the areas of US and international litigation and arbitration, international transactions and internal investigations. He was the co-founder and Managing Partner of the investment bank, AEG Capital LLC. He is a former law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan of the United States Supreme Court. From 1996-98, he was the Distinguished Scholar from Practice and Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School, where he received the Most Outstanding Faculty Member Award. He is a former Sir Maurice Shock Visiting Fellow at University College (2003). His particular research interest is the future of the practice of law.

Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Fellow by Special Election in Trinity College, where she teaches Tort and EU Law. Her research interests focus on legal reasoning, comparative private law, and EU constitutional and private law. She holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford in comparative judicial reasoning in Tort law. A book based on her DPhil thesis is forthcoming with Hart Publishing. She is one of the senior convenors of the Oxford EU Law Discussion Group. Her publications include articles on the EU law of remedies, codification of EU private law, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as the question of private party liability in EU law. Together with Professor Stephen Weatherill she organised a conference and edited a collection of papers on The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships (Hart Publishing 2013), funded in part by a grant from the British Academy. Her Leverhulme project investigates concepts and principles which govern applicability of EU norms against individuals. Its purpose is to identify the inherent limits of applicability of EU norms in horizontal relations, such as those stemming from the established doctrines of EU law, general principles of law and considerations of private autonomy and social justice. Currently, she is working on the question of horizontal effects of EU fundamental rights, distributive effects of EU private law, protection of private autonomy in EU law, and on selected aspects of legality review in the EU.

Ambrose Lee is a political and legal philosopher, currently holding a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship at the Centre for Criminology, to undertake a 3 year research project titled 'Internal Constraints to Coercive Harm Prevention'. This project builds on the AHRC-funded 'Preventive Justice' Project, which Ambrose worked with Professors Andrew Ashworth and Lucia Zedner as a research officer. The aim of the 'Preventive Justice' Project was to develop an account of the principles and values that should guide and limit the state’s use of coercive techniques in the prevention of harms, in particular its criminal law and other similar instruments. Building on this, Ambrose's current project investigates the rationale(s) behind why the state should prevent harms in the first place. Once this is identified, constraints on the state's use of coercive techniques to prevent harms can then be derived, by asking whether those coercive techniques contradict or undermine the rationale(s). The resulting set of constraints to coercive harm prevention would then be internal to the preventive rationale, which have to be accepted on pain of contradicting or undermining it, as opposed to constraints external to the preventive rationale that are more prevalent in contemporary literature.

Before he joined the Law Faculty and the Centre for Criminology, Ambrose was a lecturer in metaethics in the Division of Law and Philosophy at University of Stirling. He obtained his doctorate from the same university in 2011, with a thesis titled 'Duties of Minimal Wellbeing and Their Role in Global Justice'. Ambrose is also currently a Research Associate at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Besides political and legal philosophy, Ambrose also has a keen interest in metaethics and moral philosophy. More specifically, he is interested in the following issues: theories of distributive justice (both domestic and global), value incommensurability, the nature of goodness, the nature of respect, justification of legal punishment, the nature of law, criteria for criminalization, the nature of wellbeing, and its relationship with morality.

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Professorial Fellow of All Souls College.  Ian arrived in Oxford in July 2005 having previously taught at Keele University and the University of Edinburgh, from where where he also obtained his PhD in 1993. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Ian is the author of six books, the most recent of which Public Criminology? was published by Routledge in 2010 (with R. Sparks). He has also edited two recent volumes (on Emotions, Crime and Justice and The Penal Landscape) and has published theoretical and empirical papers on policing, security, public sensibilities towards crime, penal policy and culture, the politics of crime control, and the public roles of criminology. He is currently working on a series of linked papers on 'The Purchase of Security' (with Benjamin Goold and Angelica Thumala) drawing on material generated during two projects funded by The Leverhulme Trust. He is also in the early stages of writing a book (with Richard Sparks) with the working title of A Better Politics of Crime. 

Ian is an Editor of the British Journal of Criminology, Associate Editor of Theoretical Criminology and is on the Editorial Boards of Policing and Society, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice and IPS: International Political Sociology.

Ian was a member of the Commission on English Prisons Today from 2007-2009, and now chairs the Research Advisory Group of the Howard League for Penal Reform. He is co-convener, with the Police Foundation, of the Oxford Policing Policy Forum. Ian is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research and is a member of the Independent Commission on the Future of Policing. From time to time he writes columns for The Guardian and makes other contributions to public debate about crime and justice.

Ian's Google Scholar profile

Glen Loutzenhiser, BComm (Sask), LLB (Toronto), LLM (Cantab), MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon) CA is McGrigors University Lecturer in Tax Law and Fellow of St Hugh's College. Glen previously worked as a solicitor in the corporate tax department of the Toronto law firm Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and as an accountant in public practice and industry. Glen is qualified as a barrister & solicitor as well as a Chartered Accountant in Canada. He teaches undergraduate courses on EU Law and Taxation Law and on the BCL/MJur Corporate and Business Taxation and Personal Taxation courses.

Vaughan Lowe QC is Emeritus Chichele Professor of Public International Law and a Fellow of All Souls College.

He was formerly Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge; and before that he taught at the universities of Cardiff and Manchester and, as a visiting professor, in the USA. He practices as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London. He has advised governments and corporations on matters of international law, and is the author of many books and articles on the subject, of which the most recent are The Law of the Sea (3rd ed., MUP, 1999; with Robin Churchill),The Settlement of International Disputes (OUP, 1999; with John Collier), and International Law (OUP, 2007). He was appointed QC in 2008.

Link to Public International Law @ Oxford.

Mike Macnair is Tutor in Law at St Hugh's College. Teaching Fields: History of English Law, Roman Law, Land Law, Torts

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. Earlier he spent ten years on the faculty of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Professor Mayer-Schönberger has published seven books, as well as over a hundred articles (including in Science) and book chapters. His most recent book, the awards-winning 'Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age' (Princeton University Press 2009) has received favorable reviews by academic (Nature, Science, New Scientist) and mainstream media (New York Times, Guardian, Le Monde, NPR, BBC, Wired) and has been published in four languages. Ideas proposed in the book have now become official policy, e.g. of the European Union. A native Austrian, Professor Mayer-Schönberger founded Ikarus Software in 1986, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He was voted Top-5 Software Entrepreneur in Austria in 1991 and Person-of-the-Year for the State of Salzburg in 2000. He chaired the Rueschlikon Conference on Information Policy, is the cofounder of the SubTech conference series, and served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. He is on the advisory boards of corporations and organizations around the world, including Microsoft and the World Economic Forum. He is a personal adviser to the Austrian Finance Minister on innovation policy. He holds a number of law degrees, including one from Harvard and an MS(Econ) from the London School of Economics, and while in high school won national awards for his programming and the Physics Olympics of his home state. In his spare time, he likes to travel, go to the movies, and learn about architecture.

Doreen McBarnet MA (hons) History and Sociology,Glasgow University, PhD, Glasgow University,CBE

Christopher McCrudden received his legal education in Belfast (LL.B.), Yale University (LL.M.), and Oxford (D.Phil.). He is currently Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law at Queen?s University Belfast and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was formerly Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford and is now a Visiting Professor here at Oxford.

Ewan McKendrick, BCL, MA, LLB (Edinburgh), Barrister of Gray's Inn is Registrar of the University of Oxford, Professor of English Private Law, Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.

Formerly: Professor of English Law, University College London, 1995-2000; Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and Linnells Lecturer in Law in the University of Oxford, 1991-1995; Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1988-1991; Lecturer in Law, University of Essex,1985-1988; Lecturer in Law, University of Central Lancashire, 1984-1985.

He is a member of the Edtorial Board of the Journal of International Banking and Regulation Law. He is a member of Chambers at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn.

Sandra Meredith teaches effective use of legal information resources and research technologies such as Endnote and NVivo. She is the Co-ordinator of the undergraduate Legal Research Skills & Mooting Programme, and she teaches on the postgraduate Course in Legal Research Methods. Sandy is co- editor of OSCOLA and developer of OSCOLA styles for bibliographic software; the Faculty's Weblearn and SSRN administrator; and she works with the Faculty's Teaching and Learning Adviser on the Preparation for Learning and Teaching and Developing Learning and Teaching Programmes. Before joining the Law Faculty in 2002, Sandy worked as a Learning Technology Support Officer at Oxford Brookes. Before that, she was an Educational Developer in the School of Nursing at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She has an MA in Education.

Caroline Miles is a Research Officer in the Centre for Criminology, working with Dr Rachel Condry on an ESRC-funded project investigating adolescent violence towards parents. She was previously a Lecturer in Criminology and Programme leader for the MA Crime and Justice at the University of Chester, having completed her ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Manchester in 2008. Caroline’s thesis examined substance-related homicide (involving intoxication or systemic circumstances) in England and Wales; drawing upon data from the Homicide Index, police files for solved homicide cases and interviews with convicted homicide offenders.

Prior to her PhD Caroline worked as a Research Assistant for the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness and as a Resettlement Officer for Nacro. She obtained her LLB Honours (first class) degree in Law and Criminology and ESRC-funded MA in Criminology and Research Methods (distinction) from Keele University.

Peter Mirfield, BCL 1972, MA 1976, Oxon, Barrister 1973, Kennedy Law Schol 1973. Fellow 1981 CUF Lect 1981 Formerly: Lecturer, Leeds, 1976-81. Visiting Professor, Florida State University, 1987-88, 1995, 1999. Visiting Professor, Santa Clara University, 1997, 2000.

Charles Mitchell has been a Professor of Law at University College London since 2010, having previously held posts at King’s College London and Oxford. Since 2010 he has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford. His main research interests are the law of unjust enrichment, the law of trusts, voluntary sector law and policy, and modern legal history.

His recent publications include Subrogation: Law and Practice (OUP, 2007) (with Stephen Watterson); Hayton & Mitchell’s Commentary and Cases on the Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies 13th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010); Underhill and Hayton’s Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees 18th edn (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010) (with David Hayton and Paul Matthews); and Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment 8th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2011) (with Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP, 2009) (with Robert Chambers and James Penner); Constructive and Resulting Trusts (Hart, 2010); and four volumes in the Landmark Cases series published by Hart, on Restitution (2006), Contract (2008), Tort (2010), and Equity (2012) (all with Paul Mitchell).

He is currently organizing a symposium on ‘The Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment: A Critical and Comparative Analysis’ (with William Swadling). He is also writing a social and cultural history of charity law in the Victorian period (with Charlotte Mitchell), a book on voluntary sector law and policy (with Jonathan Garton), and a new edition of William Cornish and Geoffrey Clark’s Law and Society in England, 1750-1950 (with Steve Banks and Charlotte Smith).

University Education:          

BA (Jurisprudence) (First Class Honours) 1971

BCL 1972

Scholarships:

• Honorary Scholar of St. Catherine’s College
• Hardwicke and Cassel Scholarships, Lincoln’s Inn
• Eldon Scholarship 1975, Oxford University

University Teaching and Lectures/Seminars:

Full time Lecturer in Law at the University of Connecticut Law School 1972-1973.

Subsequently, whilst starting at the Bar, “weekending” at St Edmund Hall and St. Catherine’s Colleges.  Also part time teaching at the London School of Economics and the Council of Legal Education (the Bar School).

In recent years, occasional university lectures and seminars at the Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn and at the Summer School at the University of Bologna, NYU with simultaneous internet relay to Tulane and Utah law schools, the University of Leiden (LLM level) and the University of Cologne (for professors, graduates and legal practitioners).

Other lecturing and teaching:

Invited by the Chancellor of the Chancery Division to lecture the Chancery Judges and Registrars on the effect of the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings (1346/2000).

Numerous lectures to international and domestic conferences dealing with insolvency law, such as those run by the International Insolvency Institute, INSOL Europe and R3. Venues include not only the UK but also Barcelona, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, New York, Vienna, Prague, Venice and Malaga.

Number of talks on insolvency law for the European Academy of Law in Trier, which is backed by the EU, for judges, lawyers and academics in the EU and adjoining countries.

Speaker at Seminars organised by Oxford University on fixed and floating charges, intermediated securities and a comparative discussion of French and English insolvency law. 

Advised the European Parliament, Legal Affairs Committee, on the draft European Insolvency Convention as one of the four EU insolvency law experts invited.  The deliberations of the committee led to the passing of the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings (1346/2000).

Nature of practice:

Practising barrister specialising in business and financial law and in particular reorganisation and insolvency related cases, including EU and other international aspects.

Involved in major “cutting edge” or “frontier” areas of insolvency law.  For example, researched the 18^th and 19^th Century case law relating to the “anti-deprivation” principle and developed a successful argument for an exception to the doctrine based on the old cases in the Court of Appeal in the Perpetual/Belmont case.  Another example is the invention, with a colleague, of the “head office functions test” in relation to the interpretation of Article 3 of the EC Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings (1346/2000), a test approved by the Advocate General in the Eurofood case in the ECJ and followed by national courts in the UK, France, Germany and Hungary and much discussed in the literature in the UK and EU.  The test was in effect adopted by the ECJ in the Interedil case.

Legislation:

• Member of the Financial Markets Law Committee of the Bank of England and
• Member of the Bank of England Working Groups on (i) Property Investments in Investment Securities, (ii) Building Society and Incorporated Friendly Society Set-Off and (iii) Financial Collateral, considering legal uncertainty affecting the Capital Markets and proposals for dealing with such legal uncertainty.
• Member of the Review Panel formed by the UK Insolvency Service to assist in considering changes to English law and practice in the light of the EC Insolvency Regulation (1346/2000), which led to a number of changes to English insolvency law.
• Member of the Review Panel set up by the Insolvency Lawyers Association to consider the enactment of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-frontier Insolvency Proceedings in Great Britain and the proposed extension of the Model Law to banks and insurers.  The legislation enacting the Model Law in Great Britain reflected some of the recommendations made.
• Other significant committee memberships relating to legal reforms include the Insolvency Law Sub Committee of the Consumer and Commercial Law Committee of the Law Society and the Insolvency Committee of Justice, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists.
• Advised the Treasury in relation to implementation of the Directive on the Reorganisation and Winding Up of Insurance Undertakings and the FSA in relation to the implementation of the UCITS Directive as well as new legislation to cope with  massive financial insolvencies such as Lehmans.

Journals:

Chairman of the editorial board and frequent contributor to Insolvency Intelligence, a leading refereed journal of insolvency law and to other legal journals.

Judicial role:

Authorised by the Law Chancellor to sit as a Deputy High Court Judge since 2001.  Several reported judgments involved considerable research and analysis of the legal position.  For example Macepark v Sargeant [2004] 3AER 1090 (incidental use of rights of way) involved reconciling a number of authorities including those in the Court of Appeal.  Nexus Communications v Lambert, Times, 3 March 2005 explores the doctrine of election.  Tamares v Fairpoint [2007] 1 WLR 2148, 2167 is the leading case on damages in lieu of injunction in the case of an infringement to rights to light.  Internet Broadcasting Corp Limited v Marr LLC [2009] 2 Lloyd’s Reports 295 is a significant case dealing with exclusion clauses and fundamental breach where the breach is deliberate.  Enviroco Limited v Farstad Supply is now a leading case on the interpretation of the Companies Acts’ definition of “subsidiary” and has just recently appeared in the Supreme Court.

Expert evidence:

Written expert evidence in relation to English, Bermudan, Cayman and Guernsey law in foreign courts and arbitral tribunals including US, Australia, Greece, Iceland, Italy and Poland. Oral evidence before the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of new York.

Selected Other Roles

Member of the Supervisory Board of the Academic Forum of Insol Europe and delivered papers and lectures for the Academic Forum at its meetings

International Advisor to the American Law Institute/International Insolvency Institute project on Transnational Insolvency: Principles of Co-Operation

Prof David Nelken, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Macerata, Visiting Professor of Criminology (from October 2010 till September 2015)

Prof Nelken received a PhD in Criminology from the Cambridge Institute of Criminology and then taught in the law departments at Edinburgh 1976-1984 (where he was also a panel member of the Scottish juvenile justice Childrens' Hearings system) and University College London 1984-1990. In 1990 he moved to Italy where he is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Macerata (and was also involved in crime policy committees). He maintains a strong connection with the UK as Distinguished Professor of Law at Cardiff Law School and Honorary Professor of law at the LSE. In the academic year 2009-2010 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Criminology offering a seminar series on Comparative Criminal Justice.

He has been a visiting professor in a number of different countries, including teaching courses on comparative criminal justice at Berkeley, NYU and Sydney. Most recently, in 2008, he was appointed 'Wiarda' visiting professor at The Willem Pompe Institute at Utrecht University, and in 2009 was elected the S.T. Lee Professorial fellow at London University's Institute of Advanced Studies. David is an academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and was a recipient of an American Sociological Association distinguished scholar award in 1985 and the American Criminology Society's Sellin-Glueck award in 2009.

Widely published, David's criminological work mainly focuses on white collar crime and comparative criminal justice (overlapping with sociology of law and comparative law).

Donal Nolan is the Porjes Foundation Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, and a CUF Lecturer in Law in the University of Oxford. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA and BCL) and was previously a Lecturer in Law at King's College London. He has taught tort, contract, international trade law, restitution and commercial law, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Universities of Florida and Trento. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne. Donal's research interests lie in tort and contract, and he has published on a range of topics in these areas, including nuisance, liability for psychiatric injury, public authority liability, privity of contract and estoppel. Recent publications include 'Offer and Acceptance in the Electronic Age' in Burrows and Peel (eds), Contract Formation and Parties (OUP, 2010); 'The Page v Smith Saga: A Tale of Inauspicious Origins and Unintended Consequences' [2010] CLJ 495 (with Stephen Bailey); 'The Liability of Public Authorities for Failing to Confer Benefits' (2011) 127 LQR 260; 'Nuisance' in Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (CUP, 2011); and 'The Fatal Accidents Act 1846' in Arvind and Steele (eds), Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change (Hart, 2012). He is the author of the chapters on government liability, product liability, nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher and fire in Oliphant (ed), The Law of Tort (Butterworths, 2nd edn, 2007); the chapters on strict liability and the principle of Rylands v Fletcher in Sappideen and Vines (eds), Fleming's The Law of Torts (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia, 10th edn, 2011); and the co-editor of Rights and Private Law (Hart, 2012), to which he contributed two chapters, 'Rights and Private Law' (with Andrew Robertson) and '"A Tort Against Land": Private Nuisance as a Property Tort' . Donal is also the co-editor of OSCOLA, the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php). 

Ansgar Ohly joined the Law Faculty as a Visiting Professor in October 2009. He holds law degrees from the Universities of Bonn, Cambridge (LL M) and Munich (Dr jur), and he has a chair in civil law, intellectual property and competition law at the University of Munich. Prior to joining the Munich faculty, he was head of the Commonwealth section of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law and professor at the University of Bayreuth.

His fields of research are all areas of intellectual property law, unfair competition law and the law of privacy and publicity, with a special focus on European harmonisation and on the comparison between civil law and common law systems.

Martins Paparinskis, LLB (University of Latvia), MJur (Dist, Clifford Chance Prize), MPhil (Dist), DPhil, MA (Oxon), is a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. He was recently a Hauser Research Scholar at the New York University (2009-2010), and before that tutored as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Oxford. Martins has varied research interests in the field of general international law. His recent and forthcoming publications mainly address the place of investment protection law and international economic law in the international legal order. 

Jennifer Payne is Professor of Corporate Finance Law and a fellow and tutor at Merton College, Oxford. She joined the faculty in October 1998, as the Travers Smith lecturer in Corporate Finance Law.  She was formerly a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, a solicitor with Herbert Smith, and then a lecturer at Robinson College, Cambridge. She teaches courses on company law, corporate finance law, corporate insolvency law and principles of financial regulation.  She writes widely in the field of corporate law in leading journals and edited collections.  Her recent publications include Corporate Finance Law: Principles and Policy (Hart, 2011, with Louise Gullifer); Intermediated Securities: Legal Problems and Practical Issues (Hart, 2010) (with Louise Gullifer); and Rationality in Company Law: Essays in honour of DD Prentice (Hart, 2009) (with John Armour). She is a contributor to Palmer's Company Law and an editor of the Journal of Corporate Law Studies.

Edwin Peel, MA 1994, BCL 1993, Solr 1990, Rupert Cross Prize 1993. Fellow of Keble College 1994-, Professor of Law 2011-

Formerly: Lect, Exeter College 1987-88, Durham l989-90, Leeds 1990-92, Mansfield College 1993-94. Visting Professor, Paris II 2000-2002

BA/LLB Hons, PhD (Melbourne); MA, DipLATHE (Oxford)

Justine Pila took up her faculty post in 2004 at the same time as her tutorial fellowship at St Catherine's College. She is the Senior Law Tutor and College Counsel (in-house legal officer) at St Catherine's and a Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (IECL). With Professor John Gardner she co-edits the two Oxford Legal Research Paper Series, in addition to serving as legal advisor to the Oxford Magazine. She also convenes the Law Faculty's Intellectual Property subject group and teaches on all of its IP programmes, including the two FHS (undergraduate) IP options, the BCL option, and the Postgraduate Diploma in IP Law and Practice. Her main areas of research are copyright and patent law in all of their doctrinal, theoretical and historical aspects. Prior to 2004 Justine had been writing her PhD after a stint in private practice and working for the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court. Links to her published research and teaching materials can be accessed from her personal website.

Fernanda Pirie is an anthropologist specialising in the Tibetan region. Having conducted fieldwork among Tibetan populations in both India and China, she is undertaking a comparative study of non-state legal processes in the Tibetan region and the experiences of state legal control. A practising barrister in London, before turning to anthropology, Dr. Pirie's research interests are also extending to the London Bar and its role in the production of justice in the UK.

Jeremias Prassl read Jurisprudence Course II at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He obtained an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, where he held an RF Lewis International Legal Studies Fellowship and was awarded the Mancini Prize in 2009 before returning to work on his doctorate at Magdalen College, Oxford with the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Jeremias has been an Academic Scholar at UBS Investment Bank, a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law in Hamburg and is a member of PEPP, the Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates. Prior to his present appointment, he served as a Stipendiary Lecturer at Jesus College, Oxford (2010-11).

Jeremias' current research focuses on the Alternative Fund Management Industry, specifically Private Equity firms in the United Kingdom and continental Europe, looking at the implications of close shareholder involvement for traditional notions of the employer from a Company and Employment law perspective. He is also interested in Corporate Law and Finance and European Union Law, especially as regards its application to overseas territories.

Eveline Ramaekers is a career development fellow at Wadham College. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies (LLB, LLM with distinction) at the European Law School (Maastricht) between 2003-2008. Before coming to Oxford, she held a post as PhD researcher at Maastricht University and was a visiting lecturer at the China-EU School of Law (Beijing).

Denise Réaume was appointed as a Visiting Professor with effect from October 2008. A graduate of the BCL and a full professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law since 1996, Professor Réaume has written on constitutional rights, the theory of equality, feminist legal theory, general jurisprudence, and the law of torts. Professor Réaume lectures in Oxford on vicarious liability in the law of torts.

Wolf-Georg Ringe is Professor of International Commercial Law at Copenhagen Business School. He taught full-time at Oxford between 2007-12 and retains a Departmental Lecturer position within the Faculty. He is an associate member of the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. In Spring 2010, he was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, New York. As part of a European-wide consortium, he regularly advises the European Parliament on issues of European company law. Georg teaches Principles of Financial Regulation, Corporate Insolvency Law, Comparative and European Corporate Law, and European Business Regulation. His current research interests are in the general area of Law and Finance, (Comparative) Corporate Governance, Securities Law and the Conflict of Laws.

E-mail: georg.ringe [at] law.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44-1865-281792
Fax: +44-1865-281611

SSRN author page: http://ssrn.com/author=836081

Julian Roberts is currently a member of the Sentencing Council of England and Wales, and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Criminology and the Canadian Journal of Criminology.

Aidan Robertson was Fellow and Tutor in Law, Wadham College, Oxford 1990-1999
Visiting Lecturer in Law, Oxford University 2003 - present
Member of the Treasury B Panel (2002-present: member of C Panel 1999-2001)
Called to the Bar: July 1995 Middle Temple
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales 1988-1995
Queen's Counsel 2009

Anna Russell is the Louwes Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she also teaches an international law course at the Centre for the Environment. She has a DPhil in law from the University of Oxford, a JD from the University of Ottawa, and a BScE(Hons) in environmental engineering from Queen’s University, Canada. She is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Barrister and Solicitor). Over the last decade and a half, Anna has worked on environmental and development projects in Bolivia, Peru, South Africa, Germany, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. She has undertaken legal consultancy work for various international organizations, government departments and NGOs. With a particular focus on development issues, her main areas of interest are international environmental law and international human rights law. Current research projects include an empirical investigation into the integration of human rights into development cooperation, as well as an edited book on the human right to water. At present, Anna is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law Faculty (Human Rights Programme).

Carol Sanger is currently Barbara Aronstein Black Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, having held that position since 1995. Professor Sanger will teach at Oxford in the area of medical law and ethics, and family law.

Dan Sarooshi is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford; an FRSA; and co-General Editor of the Oxford Monographs in International Law Series. He was elected in 2008 to membership of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

His books include International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers  (OUP, 2005), The UN and the Development of Collective Security (OUP, 1999), and the co-edited State Responsibility Before International Judicial Institutions  (Hart, 2004). The first two of these books have been awarded the 2000 (biennial) Guggenheim Prize by the Guggenheim Foundation in Switzerland; the 2001 American Society of International Law Book Prize; the 2006 Myres S. McDougal Prize awarded by the American Society for the Policy Sciences; and the 2006 American Society of International Law Book Prize.

Professor Sarooshi has co-authored with Judge Dame Rosalyn Higgins FBA, QC, former President of the International Court of Justice, the long chapter entitled ?Institutional Modes of Conflict Management? in National Security Law  (2005) (108 pp.). He is presently co-authoring with H.E. Sir Christopher Greenwood QC of the International Court of Justice the leading work, Oppenheim?s International Law, Peace (10th edition, Oxford University Press) (in preparation).

He was appointed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2006 to the WTO Dispute Settlement List of Panellists after joint nomination by the United Kingdom Government and the European Communities.

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Jan became a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg in 2004, and from then until 2011 he was Head of the Department for Latin American Law, regularly visiting universities in South America for research and lectures. In 2009 he completed his PhD under the supervision of Professor Reinhard Zimmermann, with a historical and comparative study of the new Brazilian Civil Code from 2002.

On his Max Planck Fellowship in Oxford, he is working on contract law, family law, and succession law, both in comparative and private international law. His postdoctoral dissertation (?Habilitation?) analyses the different systems of transfer of property upon death in the European legal orders, in the context of the recently adopted European Regulation on Successions and Wills.

Tom Scott is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Law faculty. He is qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales and was formerly a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Lincoln College. He was a tax partner at the international law firm Linklaters, where he worked for 23 years, and subsequently at KPMG LLP. He is currently Chairman of the UK branch of the International Fiscal Association and a member of the Tax Advisory Board at PLC magazine. He has written articles on tax for the Times, international tax Review, PLC magazine and Accountancy, and contributed to books such as Tolley's Tax Planning and Tolley's Company Acquisitions Handbook.

Called to the Bar, Inner Temple, 1964
Queen?s Counsel, 1983
 Bencher of the Inner Temple, 1989
Judge of the High Court, Queen?s Bench Division, 1992-9
Lord Justice of Appeal, 1999-2011
Judge ad hoc of the European Court of Human Rights
Member ad hoc of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
                                     
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Member, International Commission on Mercenaries, 1976
Visiting professorial Fellow, Warwick University, 1981
President, National Reference Tribunals for the Coalmining Industry, 1983-8
A director, Public Law Project, 1989-93
Distinguished Visitor, Hong Kong University, 1992
Chair, Bar Council sex discrimination committee, 1992-5
Vice-President, Administrative Law bar Association, 1992-
Hon. Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 1997-
Laskin Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall law school, Canada, 1997
Visiting fellow, Victoria University, NZ, 1998.
President, British Institute of Human Rights, 2000-
Chair, British Council Committee on Governance, 2002-5
President, Constitutional Law Group,  2006-

Honours                        

Knight Bachelor 1992
Privy Counsellor 1999
Honorary doctorates: North London, Nottingham Trent, Bristol, Warwick, Durham, Hull, Southampton, Exeter, Essex.
Honorary Professor, Cardiff University (1993-), Warwick University (1994- )
Distinguished judicial visitor, UCL (1999-)

Publications:                 

Articles in journals including LQR, Public Law, MLR, ILJ, JLS and the London Review of Books.
Chapters in collections and festschrifts.

Books:-
From Burgos Gaol (poems by Marcos Ana and Vidal de Nicolas, translated) 1964
The Seeds of Love (anthology) 1967
A Spark in the Ashes (ed with Lawrence Kaplan) (the writings of John Warr), 1992
The Making and Remaking of the British Consitution (with Lord Nolan; the 1996 Radcliffe Lectures) 1997
Freedom, Law and Justice (the Hamlyn Lectures) 1998
Ashes and Sparks (collected essays and lectures) 2011

Andrew Shacknove (AB Bowdoin; PhD Yale; JD Harvard; MA, Oxon). University Lecturer in Law and Director of Legal Studies, University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford.

Formerly a lawyer with UNHCR in Malaysia, Dr Shacknove was for many years a consultant with the United Kingdom Home Office Asylum Division. Between 1990 and 1993 he was Joyce Pearce Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

He is Co-Director of the Oxford/George Washington University Summer Programme in International Human Rights Law and Academic Adviser to the Adilisha Project of human rights training in southern Africa.

Special Interests: Public International Law, Human Rights and Forced Migration.

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Robert Sharpe is a judge at the Court of Appeal for Ontario in Toronto. He will be teaching Civil Procedure on the BCL.

Edwin Simpson (BCL 1989, MA 1990) is an Official Student (or Tutor) in Law at Christ Church, and the Barclays Bank Lecturer in Taxation in the University. He is a qualified barrister and member of Lincoln's Inn.

His interests focus around theories of the public sphere and of property, and naturally meet in topics such as trusts law, highway law, and the law of taxation.

He gives tutorials in Trusts Law, Administrative Law and Jurisprudence; and teaches on both of the BCL/MJur tax courses, the Law of Personal Taxation, and Corporate and Business Taxation.

Boudewijn Sirks was educated in Law at the University of Leiden, followed by studies in Theology and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he took up his first post as a Research Assistant in Philosophy.

In 1978, he moved back to his original discipline and became Lecturer for Legal History at the Utrecht University, later Senior Lecturer for legal techniques. In parallel, he completed a PhD in Law at the University of Amsterdam, where he became Reader and acting Chair for Legal Techniques in 1989. In 1997 he moved to the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he took up a chair in History of Ancient Law, History of European Private Law and in German Private Law until his present appointment, effective per 1 February 2006.

Professor Sirks? research interests span ancient history of law, papyrology, European private law and civil law. He was an editorial member of the Journal of Legal History and is of the Studia Amstelodamensia. Studies in Ancient Law and History. He spent time as Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University, New York and Visiting Professor at the University of Kansas.

Gustaf joined the Faculty and the IECL as The Stockholm Centre Oxford Fellowship for 12 months from October 2012.

His post is funded by the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Stockholm, as part of the growing collaborations between the Stockholm Centre and Oxford?s IECL.

Roger Smith MA 1974, Cantab; Fellow, Magdalen College, 1974- ; CUF Lect, 1974- .

Formerly Lecturer, Birmingham, 1970-71; Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 1971-74

Benjamin Spagnolo Ben Spagnolo is a graduate of the Universities of Western Australia and Oxford, a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and a former Associate to the Chief Justice of Australia. He was elected to the Penningtons Studentship in Law at Christ Church in 2012, having previously taught at the University of Western Australia and at a dozen colleges in Oxford, including as a lecturer at Magdalen and University Colleges and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Faculty of Law. Ben is a former Sir Robert Menzies Scholar in Law, a former Clarendon Scholar and a recipient of a University of Oxford Teaching Award. He served as Mooting Coordinator for the Faculty from 2008 to 2010 and as Sub-Dean at Magdalen College in 2011-2012.

Jane Stapleton is one of the world's leading scholars on the law of Torts. She is Research Professor at the Australian National University, College of Law, Canberra, Australia, and Ernest E. Smith Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

B. Jur. (Athens), LL.M. (Lond), D.Phil. (Oxon), is the University Lecturer in Legal Theory.

Nicos Stavropoulos is the University Lecturer in Legal Theory.  His research interests are in jurisprudence. He is particularly interested in the philosophy of language and mind, moral philosophy, and political philosophy, and their bearing on legal theory.  His book Objectivity in Law was published by Clarendon Press (1996).  He teaches and supervises research in jurisprudence.

Stavropoulos completed the DPhil at Brasenose.  He then practiced for several years and served as Special Adviser in policy units under the Minister of Energy and Industry of Greece and at the Secretariat of the Cabinet under the Prime Minister of Greece.  He joined the Faculty in 1999, when he was appointed to the newly established University Lectureship in Legal Theory.

In 2001-2, Stavropoulos was a Fellow at the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University. In 2006 he established the Oxford-UCL Colloquium in Legal and Political Philosophy, meeting alternately in Oxford and in London. He serves on the board of Legal Theory and Law and Philosophy.

Professor Robert Stevens joins the faculty as the Herbert Smith Freehills Professor of English Private Law. Previously he was a Professor in commercial law at UCL , a lecturer in law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall where he taught from 1994 to 2007.

He read law as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, where he also studied for the Bachelor of Civil Law. He was called to the Bar in 1992. He has taught and lectured widely both within the Commonwealth (Australia and Canada) and Continental Europe (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain).

William Swadling, MA (Oxon), LLM (Lond) is the faculty's Director of Graduate Studies (Taught Courses), a Reader in the Law of Property, and the Senior Law Fellow at Brasenose College. He chairs the faculty's teaching groups in Restitution and Personal Property. Before coming to Oxford, he held posts at a number of other universities, including University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the editor of a number of books, including The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays. He is particularly interested in the intersection between trusts/property and restitution, and a number of his articles on this topic have been cited in the English courts, most notably in Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] AC 669. He is a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England (4th ed, reissue), and wrote the section entitled 'Property' in Burrows (ed), English Private Law (2nd ed, 2007). He is a founding editor of the Restitution Law Review and has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg, Seoul National University, the National University of Singapore, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), and the University of Leuven. He is an academic associate at One Essex Court (chambers of Lord Grabiner QC), a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.

Colin Tapper MA 1965. BCL 1959, Oxon; Vinerian Schol, 1959., Barrister (GI) 1961. Fellow, Magdalen College, 1965~, All Souls Reader in Law, 1979- .

Formerly: Assistant Lecturer, 1959-62; Lecturer 1962-65, LSE.

DPhil (Oxf), LLM (NYU) LLM LLB (Athens)

Antonios joined the Law Faculty as University Lecturer in Public International Law in September 2012. He is a fellow of St Anne's College. 

Antonios studied law in Athens, New York, and Oxford, during which time he also worked as a Researcher for the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens and New York, and for the UN Office in Geneva. He then took up a position as a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, with which he remains affiliated, and subsequently at University College London. He has also taught as a visiting Lecturer at King’s College London and the University of Paris (Paris X – Nanterre).

Antonios is an Advocate at the Athens Bar in Greece and has worked on a number of cases before international and domestic courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice, EU courts, ad hoc and ICSID arbitral tribunals, and the High Court of England and Wales. 

Professor Philippe van Parijs joined the Faculty in April this year as a Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Nuffield College.

Philippe Van Parijs studied philosophy, law, political economy, sociology and linguistics at the Facultés universitaires Saint Louis (Brussels) and the Universities of Louvain, Oxford, Bielefeld and California (Berkeley). He holds doctorates in the social sciences (Louvain, 1977) and in philosophy (Oxford, 1980).

He is Professor at the Faculty of economic, social and political sciences of the University of Louvain (UCL), where he has directed the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics since its creation in 1991. He has also been a special guest professor at the KuLeuven's Higher Institute for Philosophy since 2006. From 2004 onwards he was for several years a Regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Federico Varese is Professor of Criminology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. He maintains active research links with the Centre in his capacity as Research Associate.

John Vella is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and a member of the Faculty of Law at Oxford. John studied law at the University of Malta (BA and LLD) and the University of Cambridge (LLM and PhD). Following the completion of his PhD he joined the Faculty of Law at Oxford as Norton Rose Career Development Fellow in Company Law where he taught Company Law, Corporate Finance Law, EC Law and Roman Law, before moving to his current post.

John has been a Program Affiliate Scholar at New York University and has acted as a co-arbitrator in a tax dispute before the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He gave evidence: before the House of Lords EU Sub- Commmittee A on Financial Transaction Taxes in November 2011; before the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards  on the role of tax in relation to banking standards and culture in January 2013; and before the House of Lords EU Sub- Commmittee A again on Financial Transaction Taxes  in March 2013. 

His recent research has focused on tax avoidance, revenue authorities' discretionary powers and the taxation and regulation of the financial sector in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

Jure Vidmar (MA, LLM, Dr phil, PhD) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Prior to taking up these posts in 2012, Jure was an Anglo-German Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. His previous positions include post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam,  and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria.

Jure's main research and teaching interests lie within public international law, human rights, European law, and political theory. He has taught and/or supervised at the universities Oxford, Pretoria, Amsterdam and Nottingham. Jure is the author of a monograph entitled 'Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice' (Oxford, Hart, 2013) and co-editor (with Erika de Wet) of 'Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights' (Oxford, OUP, 2012). He is also an editor of the Hague Yearbook of International Law. Some of his publications are available on SSRN.

Stefan Vogenauer took up the post of Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College in 2003. He has been Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law since October 2004.

Before coming to Oxford, Professor Vogenauer was based in Hamburg where he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and a part-time lecturer at the Bucerius Law School. Previously he had been a Research Assistant at the Regensburg Law Faculty, having received his legal education in Kiel, Paris, Oxford (Trinity College, MJur 1995, Clifford Chance and Herbert Hart Prizes) and Regensburg where he qualified as a German barrister ('Rechtsanwalt').

Professor Vogenauer convenes the BCL/MJur course in 'European Private law: Contract'. Further courses and classes taught while in Oxford include 'Problems in Contract and Tort (German and English Law Compared)', 'Introduction to Comparative Law', 'The Common Law for Civil Lawyers', 'Transnational Commercial Law' and 'Roman Law of Contract'. Apart from comparative law his research interests lie mainly in the areas of European legal history, private law, international uniform law, and legal method.

In 2012 a Humboldt Award was conferred upon Professor Vogenauer 'in recognition of his lifetime achievements in research'. For his comparative and historical analysis of the interpretation of statutes in English, French, German and EU law, 'Die Auslegung von Gesetzen in England und auf dem Kontinent' (Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001, 2 vols), he was awarded the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2002, as well as the 2008 Prize of the German Legal History Conference.

Dr Andreas von Goldbeck-Stier is the DAAD Lecturer in German and European Union Law, and Fellow at Christ Church. Andreas studied law at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin before going on to read for the MJur at St John's College, Oxford. Following his studies at Oxford he obtained his PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge under the supervision of Tony Weir. Subsequently, Andreas qualified as a Solicitor of England and Wales. His main teaching and research interests are in the areas of international arbitration, European private law, European Union Law, comparative law and private international law.

Dr Konstanze von Papp holds degrees from the Universities of Tübingen (first and second state examination), Aix-Marseille III (maîtrise en droit international), Columbia Law School (LLM), and Heidelberg University (Dr iur).

Before returning to academia, Konstanze was a Senior Associate with Allen and Overy LLP, London. She is dual qualified as German Rechtsanwältin and Solicitor of England and Wales, including Higher Rights of Audience.

Most recently, Konstanze was a Visiting Researcher at Boston University. Her academic interests (both teaching and research) lie mainly in European Union law, comparative law, and arbitration. Konstanze has published in German legal journals and the Common Market Law Review.

D.Phil (Oxon, 2005) M.Stud (Oxon, 2001) LLB (magna cum laude) (Hebrew University, 1999), Solicitor (Israeli Bar).

Dr Shlomit Wallerstein is also a Fellow at St. Peter's College. She has varied interests in the areas of criminal law, international criminal law and jurisprudence and has published articles on legal and theoretical aspects of offences concerned with national security and the democratic regime, defences, theoretical aspects of the general part of criminal law, sexual offences and on theoretical questions concerning international criminal law. Her articles have been published in leading international law journals such as Criminal law Review, Criminal Law and Philosophy and the Virginia Law Review.

Shlomit advised the Justice Verma Committee (India) investigating the reform of India's sexual violence laws, urging for a law reform (The Justice Verma Committee was established on 21 December 2012 following the brutal gang rape of an Indian woman the previous week. Their final report was published on 23rd January 2013).

She has been recently interviewed on the BBC World Service programme: ‘The Forum’, discussing how to make good law.

Shlomit teaches Criminal law, Jurisprudence and International Criminal Law. In 2012 she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School and in 2011 she was a Visiting Professor at Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. In 2008/09 She was the Director of Legal Studies at Regent’s Part College, Oxford. In 2003/04 she taught (part time) at St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford. From 1997 to 1999, she has taught as a teaching assistant at the Hebrew University.

Currently Shlomit is a member of the steering committee of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), The James Martin 21^st Century Schools at Oxford University.

Formerly, Shlomit clerked in the Israeli Supreme Court, and was the Editor-In-Chief of Mishpatim the Hebrew University’s Law Review.

Stephen Weatherill is the Jacques Delors Professor of European Law. He also serves as Deputy Director for European Law in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, and is a Fellow of Somerville College.

His research interests embrace the field of European Law in its widest sense, although his published work is predominantly concerned with European Union trade law. He is co-author of WEATHERILL AND BEAUMONT's EU LAW Penguin Books, 3rd edition,1999, with Paul Beaumont). He is the author of LAW AND INTEGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION (Oxford University Press, 1995), EU CONSUMER LAW AND POLICY (Edward Elgar, 2nd edition, 2005), CASES AND MATERIALS ON EU LAW (Oxford University Press, 9th edition, 2010) and co-author of CONSUMER PROTECTION LAW (Ashgate Publishing, 2nd edition, 2005, with Geraint Howells and EUROPEAN ECONOMIC LAW (Dartmouth Publishing, 1997, with Hans Micklitz). The areas in which he has published papers in journals and edited collections in recent years include; the impact of subsidiarity in EU law; the involvement of the EU in private law; aspects of "flexible" integration in Europe; the elaboration of strategies for the management of the internal market; sport and the law including the ruling in BOSMAN; and the law and practice of product safety.

In Oxford, his teaching interests focus on EU law. He has taught on the European Business Regulation course, Land and Competition Law, offered to BCL and Mjur students and has also taught at undergraduate level.

Before joining the Oxford Faculty, he held the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at the University of Nottingham, and he has also previously held positions at the Universities of Manchester and Reading since beginning his academic career as a research assistant at Brunel University.

Se-shauna Wheatle LL.B (Hons) (University of the West Indies) BCL (Dist), MPhil (Oxon) is currently Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Exeter College. She came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and has since pursued research in the fields of comparative human rights law and comparative constitutional law.

Christopher Whelan is Associate Director of International Law Programmes at the University's Department for Continuing Education. Before that he was Senior Lecturer in law at the University of Warwick and Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He is also a practising barrister (specialising in employment law) at 3 Paper Buildings, Temple.

Simon Whittaker has been a fellow and tutor in law at St. John's College since 1987, previously being a lecturer in laws at King's College's London. He took his degrees at Oxford (BA,1979; BCL, 1980; MA, 1982; D.Phil., 1987; DCL, 2008) and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1987. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Regensburg and a visiting professor at the University of Paris I and University of Paris II. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Rebecca Williams holds a CUF lecturership in association with Pembroke College. Rebecca was previously a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, having done her PhD at Birmingham. Before that she was both an undergraduate and a BCL student at Worcester College, Oxford. Rebecca's principal teaching interests are criminal law and public law, and her research interests include:
- Criminal Law (including EU criminal law)
- Public Law (including EU public law and comparative approaches)
- The interrelationship between public law and unjust enrichment
Her work has been cited in the European Court of Justice, the Supreme Court of England and Wales and the High Court of Australia

Derrick Wyatt has been a Fellow of St. Edmund Hall since 1978, received the title of Professor in 1996, and retired in 2009. He is Emeritus Professor of Law, and Fellow of St Edmund Hall, and was appointed a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford in  2009. He teaches on the BCL and M Juris course European Business Regulation - the Law of the EU's Internal Market, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of European and Comparative Law. He practises as a barrister (Queen's Counsel 1993) from Brick Court Chambers. He has advised and represented governments, public bodies, and businesses on matters of EU law, and has appeared in numerous cases before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is a Member of the Editorial Committees of the British Yearbook of International Law (OUP), and the Croatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy (University of Zagreb), and is an advisory editor for Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (Hart Publishing). He is also one of the co-authors of Wyatt and Dashwood's European Union Law, Hart Publishing, 6th edition 2011. Other Teaching experience, Public Lectures and other activities: Lecturer in the University of Liverpool, 1971-75; Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge, 1975-78; Visiting Professor, Florida State University, 1988; lecturer European Law LLM at University of Amsterdam, 1994, 1995; European Law "workshops" organized by Clyde & Co./University of Helsinki, in Finland in 1988, 1993, and 1996. Lectures and conferences at universities in the UK and abroad, latterly in Warsaw (2003), Zagreb (2004 and 2006), and Dubrovnik for the University of Zagreb (2008, 2009 and 2011). Has given evidence to the German Parliament (1996) on subsidiarity and to the House of Lords EU Committee (2004) on the proposed monitoring of subsidiarity by national parliaments under the Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe.Gave special assistance to the Bank of England Financial Markets Law Committee in the preparation of Issue 69, Working Group on the Proceeds of Crime Act, 2002 (published January 2005). Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Jean-Monnet Inter-University Centre of Excellence, Opatija, 2010-

Alison L Young is Senior Law Tutor at Hertford College and teaches Constitutional law, Administrative law, European Union law and Comparative Public law, as well as providing occasional seminars in Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Principles of the European Union. She is also the Teaching and Learning Officer for the Faculty, having completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.

She studied Law and French at the University of Birmingham, before coming to Hertford College, obtaining BCL and D Phil. She was a tutor in law and a Fellow of Balliol College from 1997 to 2000, before returning to Hertford as a Fellow and Tutor in law in October 2000.

Her D Phil examined defamation law and freedom of expression and she currently researches in applied constitutional theory, public law and human rights, particularly freedom of expression. She is the author of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act (Hart, 2009).

Paul Yowell has been Fellow and Tutor in Law at Oriel College since October 2012. Prior to that he was Lecturer in Law at New College, and a postdoctoral fellow with the Oxford Law Faculty for the AHRC project Parliaments and Human Rights.

He completed the BCL in European and Comparative Law and MPhil in Law at Balliol College, and the DPhil in Law at University College. His areas of teaching are Constitutional Law, EU Law, Jurisprudence and Human Rights.

Dr Rafal Zakrzewski's research focuses on finance law and commercial remedies (jointly and severally).  He is particularly concerned with all aspects of English law relating to corporate lending and security, especially in an international or cross-border context.  More broadly, he expresses an interest in most matters of legal principle closely connected with private practice.

Rafal teaches principally in the areas of contract, torts, trusts and corporate finance. 

He first studied law at the University of Queensland.  He pursued his doctoral studies at Oxford University.  His doctorate examined the concept of a legal remedy in private law.  It was subsequently published as 'Remedies Reclassified' (OUP, Oxford, 2005).  He has also written on the rescission of contracts, acquisition finance, and aspects of commercial and corporate law.

As a solicitor he practised law for many years with leading global firms in Australia, London and Warsaw. He is a veteran of a good many financings, joint ventures and acquisitions.  He also has some experience in legislative drafting.  

Additional information is to be found on his web page on the St Hugh's College website.

Lucia Zedner is Professor of Criminal Justice, Law Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and a Member of the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford.
She was formerly a student and then Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford (1984-89) and a lecturer at the London School of Economics (1989-94). From 2003-2005 she held a British Academy Research Readership; from 2006-2008 she was Director of Graduate Studies (Research) for the Law Faculty; and from 2005-08 she served on the Research College of the Economic and Social Science Research Council. She was elected a Fellow of The British Academy in 2012.
She has held visiting fellowships at universities in Germany, Israel, America, and Australia. Since 2007 she has also held the position of Conjoint Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Sydney where she is a regular visitor.
She has served on the editorial boards of many journals: currently these include the Criminal Law Review, European Journal of Criminology, International Journal of Criminal Law Education, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, and the Oxford Comparative Law Forum.
She is also the General Editor of the Oxford University Press monograph series Clarendon Series in Criminology. Professor Zedner is currently co-directing with Andrew Ashworth a three-year study of Preventive Justice generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which will re-assess the foundations for the range of coercive measures that states now take in the name of crime prevention and public protection.

Adrian Zuckerman Fellow, Univ College, 1973- .

Formerly: Res Fellow, Balliol College, 1971-73.