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 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 Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Bologna, and Columbia Law School.

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 insolvency and company law. He has been involved in policy related projects commissioned by the Department of Trade and Industry, the Financial Services Authority, and the Insolvency Service.

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.) and the University of Toronto (LL.M.) and is currently completing a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) of Law at Oxford. 

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.

Nicholas Barber MA (Oxon) B.C.L. Barrister, Senior Law Fellow at Trinity College. Formerly Fellow of Brasenose College. Joined the Law Faculty in 1998.

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 Chair of Examiners 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 conducting a national study of life in UK immigration detention centres. This project is funded by the Nuffield Foundation, the John Fell Fund and by the British Academy.  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 www.borderobservatory.org. She is the UK Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Criminology and a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and Race & Justice.

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.

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.

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, will be 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.

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 is currently involved (as a contributor, and as co-editor of the work overall) in a project to bring together contemporary theoretical work on European Union law, which will result in a book entitled Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law, currently under contract with Oxford University Press.

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.

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

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. 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. 

She is also completing a monograph, 'Law After Modernity', 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.

Pavlos Eleftheriadis is University Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Mansfield College. He is also a practising barrister in England and Wales from Francis Taylor Building in the Temple. He has been a lecturer at  the London School of Economics and a visiting professor of European Law at Columbia University. He was awarded the Bodossaki Prize for Law in 2005. He teaches and publishes in constitutional law, the philosophy of law and  European Union law. 

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 forthcoming collection of essays The Philosophical Foundations of European Union Law (Oxford University Press) and is currently at work on a monograph on European Institutions provisionally entitled 'A Union of Peoples: Europe as a Community of Principle'. His presentation 'A Union of Peoples' given at  Chatham House in June 2011 is summarised here: http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/publications/papers/view/-/id/1088/

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.

Ariel Ezrachi is the Slaughter and May University Lecturer in 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 (2nd ed, 2010, 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 currently 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.  

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 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.

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. 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 Designate of the Journal of Environmental Law and is on the Editorial Committee of the Modern Law Review (the latter as editor of the Legislation Section). Fisher convenes the Environmental Law courses and the Course in Legal Research Method in the Faculty.

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.

Mark Freedland is a Reader in Employment Law with the title of Professor; his university teaching is in the fields of Labour Law, International and European Employment Law, and Comparative Public Law.

He is also a Fellow and one of the Law Tutors at St John's College. He has acted as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Law Faculty, as Vice-Chair of the Law Board, and as Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law: he is currently a Deputy Director of the IECL and is the Convenor responsible for organising the Course in Legal Research Method. In recent years he has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris I, and Paris II.

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.

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.

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.

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 CUF Lecturer in Law, 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. He 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 is also currently Visiting Researcher, Harvard Law School, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia and Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong.

Leslie 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, Canada. After beginning his teaching career at Lincoln College, Oxford, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He has visited and taught at many other law faculties, including Berkeley, Columbia, NYU, Chicago and, for some years, at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes and teaches in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional theory, and moral and political philosophy. He serves on the board of many journals and is co-editor of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law.

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 currently the Oxford Law Faculty Development Co-ordinator.   She is also Chair of the University Student Disciplinary Panel.  

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).

Caroline Harvey graduated with a first class undergraduate degree in Law and German from the University of Keele and an LL.M in International Law and International Relations with distinction from the University of Lancaster. Her dissertation on the treatment of certain aspects of war crimes law by Austria, Germany and Switzerland was published by a military law journal.

Caroline went on to complete various internships, including at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, where she worked on parts of the Milosevic trial, with the Gulf Region Advocacy Center (GRACE) in Houston, Texas, working on death row appeals cases, with the anti-torture non-governmental organisation REDRESS, where Caroline co-wrote the German law entry of a global directory on universal jurisdiction, and finally with the Society for Military Law in Brussels.

In 2006 Caroline joined the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, training in London for two years before qualifiying into the international arbitration group in Frankfurt am Main, where she practised as a Solicitor for several years.

Caroline was recently awarded a Ph.D by the University of Lancaster for her thesis on the right to self-representation in international criminal procedure, under the supervision of Professor Peter Rowe and is now working with Professor Stefan Vogenauer on a comparative law project on the Draft Common European Sales Law and its interaction with English and German law.

Barbara Havelkova is the CSET Teaching Fellow in EU Law at the Faculty of Law. She is also a DPhil student at Exeter College, writing on "Gender in Law Under and After State Socialism: the Example of the Czech Republic" under the supervision of Prof. Sandra Fredman and Dr. Bettina Lange.
Barbara graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague summa cum laude (Mgr. 2004; JUDr. 2005), and from the Europa-Institut of Saarland University (LL.M. in European Integration 2008).
Barbara previously worked for Clifford Chance Prague, trained at the Legal Service of the European Commission and in the Chambers of AG Poiares Maduro at the Court of Justice of the European Union, and worked at the European Law Department of Saarland University. She has visited several law schools as a guest student/researcher, including Università di Siena, Zagreb University, Harvard University and University of Michigan (the latter two as a Fulbright scholar).
Barbara is also active in the Czech Republic where she teaches a course on "Gender and Law" at the Faculty of Humanities at Charles University in Prague and collaborates with women and human rights NGOs on monitoring and advocacy projects in the area of gender equality.

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.

From January 2012 Andrew will be a departmental lecturer in civil procedure. Prior to his new post Andrew was the career development fellow in civil procedure at the law faculty and University college between 2008 and 2011. 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 the 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 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.

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.

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.

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).

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 the book Contrasting Prisoners' Rights (OUP 2004), the themes of which she explored in her article 'Conceptions of Liberty Deprivation' (Modern Law Review, September 2006). Her other projects include a collection, co-edited with Benjamin Goold, entitled Security and Human Rights (Hart 2007) which incorporates her own work on 'The Right to Security'. She has completed two reports for the UK Ministry of Justice with Benjamin Goold. The first was on the use of proportionality in balancing between security and rights in Europe (Public Protection, Proportionality and the Search for Balance, Ministry of Justice, 2007), the second was on the concept of constitutional responsibilities (The Relationship between Rights and Responsibilities, Ministry of Justice 2009). In 2010, Liora acted as a legal advisor to the Stern Review into Rape Complaints, and her report on the human rights framework applicable to the treatment of victims of rape was incorporated in the Stern Report. Liora has just completed a major report for the European Union Parliament comparing the human rights regimes under the United Nations, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union. Liora is actively involved in the work of Oxford Pro Bono Publico (which she co-founded), the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Group and Oxford Legal Assistance. 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 has also been appointed to an expert advisory group of the Equality and Human Rights Commission which will be 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.

Ian Loader is Professor of Criminology and Director of Criminology. He arrived at Oxford in 2005 from Keele University, where he had worked since 1992 in the Department of Criminology. Prior to that he was a Lecturer in Criminology and Jurisprudence at the University of Edinburgh, from where he obtained his PhD in 1993. Ian is author or co-author of six books - Cautionary Tales (1994, Avebury, with S. Anderson, R. Kinsey and C. Smith), Youth, Policing and Democracy (1996, Palgrave), Crime and Social Change in Middle England (2000, Routledge, with E. Girling and R. Sparks), Policing and the Condition of England: Memory, Politics and Culture (2003, Oxford, with A. Mulcahy), Civilizing Security (2007, Cambridge, with N. Walker) and Public Criminology? (2010, Routledge, with R. Sparks). He has also written papers on contemporary transformations in policing and security, on the intersections between politics, criminology and crime control, and on penal politics and culture. 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, The Open Criminology Journal 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 has, since 2006, been co-convener, with the Police Foundation, of the Oxford Policing Policy Forum. Ian is an Associate Fellow of ippr and is an elected member of the Council of Liberty. From time to time he writes columns for The Guardian and makes other contributions to public debate about crime and justice.

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 the 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.

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

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

Ben McFarlane has been a University Lecturer in Property Law and Trusts, and a Fellow of Trinity College, since 2004. He became a Reader in Property Law in 2008.
In 2006, he spent a term at New York University Law School as an NYU-Oxford Visiting Fellow, and he is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Melbourne Law School. He is also a professeur invité at the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).
His primary research interest is in property law, and his most recent work has focussed on the nature of equitable property rights, comparative trusts law, and the numerus clausus (or closed list) principle. He has written widely on the law of proprietary estoppel - a topic which will be the subject matter of his next book. In 2010, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.

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.

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.

Jonathan Morgan, MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab). Fellow and Tutor in Law at St. Catherine's College, and CUF lecturer in the Faculty of Law, since 2009.

Jonathan Morgan read jurisprudence at Balliol College, and wrote a doctoral thesis on contract law theory at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Christ's College, Cambridge (2004-9).

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. 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 'Causation and the Goals of Tort Law' in Robertson and Tang (eds), The Goals of Private Law (Hart, 2009); 'Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1991)' in Mitchell and Mitchell (eds), Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (Hart, 2010); '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); and 'The Liability of Public Authorities for Failing to Confer Benefits' (2011) 127 LQR 260. 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). 

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, a Member of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC), 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. Preprints of some of her published research can be accessed from the SSRN and Bepress.

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.

Wolf-Georg Ringe, Dr iur (Bonn), MJur (Oxon), is DAAD Lecturer in Law at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and Fellow at Christ Church. 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 Comparative and European Corporate Law, European Business Regulation, Company Law, European Union Law and German Law. 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: +44-1865-271476
Fax: +44-1865-281611

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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.

Dan Sarooshi is also a 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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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.

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

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

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

His research interests are in jurisprudence. He has published on some aspects of philosophy of language and mind and political philosophy, and their bearing on legal theory.

His book Objectivity in Law was published by Clarendon Press (1996).

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 3-4 South Square, Gray's Inn, London, a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

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 private law, international uniform law, European legal history and legal method. 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.

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

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.

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

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).

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 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.

Katja Ziegler took up the post of Erich Brost University Lecturer and Fellow of St. Hilda?s College in 2007. She is also a member of the Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Between 2002 and 2007 she was Lecturer in Law, DAAD Fellow and Deputy Director at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and lecturer at Trinity College, University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford she worked as a Rechtsanwältin (barrister/solicitor) at the Brussels office of an international law firm in EC competition law and constitutional law, and was previously a lecturer at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. She holds a law degree from the University of Bonn and a doctorate from the University of Bielefeld.

Her research interests are international, European, comparative constitutional law and human rights.

She teaches undergraduate courses on EU law, public international law, European Human Rights Law and constitutional law and on the BCL/MJur courses Comparative Human Rights and European Business Regulation.

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Adrian Zuckerman Fellow, Univ College, 1973- .

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