Michael Beloff QC 1981, BA 1963, MA 1965, Oxon, Barrister (G1) 1967, Atkin Schol GI 1967, Bencher 1988, Treasurer 2008.

Former President, Trinity College.

Consultant Editor, Judicial Review Bulletin
Head of Chambers 4-5 Gray's Inn Square 1992-2000.
Recorder 1994-95; Deputy Judge QBD 1989-96.
Judge of CA Jersey and Guernsey 1996- .
Senior Ordinary Appeal Judge 2005-.
Member of the Court of Arbitation for Sport 1996-.
Member of the Singapore International Panel of Mediators 2007-.
President of the British Association of Sport and Law.
First Chairman, Admin Law Bar Assn.
Currently in practice at Blackstone Chambers.

Dr Ros Burnett obtained her doctorate in Social Psychology from the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford and, before entering academia, was a probation officer and relationship counsellor. She has been a member of the Centre for Criminology since 1990 - apart from a two year period when she 'desisted from crime' - and she was the first Head of the Centre's Probation Studies Unit. Her research encompasses probation, youth justice and prison services, the unifying theme being interventions and processes that impact on criminal careers to limit reoffending and support desistance from crime. Her publications include: Fitting Supervision to Offenders (1996), Joined-up Youth Justice (with Catherine Appleton, 2003) What Works in Probation and Youth Justice (co-edited with Colin Roberts, 2004). Prisoners as Citizens' Advisers (with Shadd Maruna, 2004) and Reducing Re-offending: Key Practice Skills (with McNeill and Bachelor, 2005). Studies during the last two years have focused on organisational change in probation and prisons, including an investigation of the implications of NOMS for practice by prison officers, supported by a British Academy award. She is currently working as a Consultant to the Barrow Cadbury Trust in its development and promotion of linked services for, a neglected group, young adults (aged 18-24 years) in the criminal justice system.

Graham Child is a Fellow of Lincoln College.

Peter Clarke, BCL 1968, MA 1971, Oxon; Barrister (L1) 1970; Hardwicke Scholar, Buchanan Prizeman (LI). Fellow, Jesus College, 1971- . CUF Lecturer 1972-.

Formerly: Assistant Lecturer 1969, Lecturer 1969-71, University of Nottingham.

Stephen Cretney, FBA QC is an Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College Oxford.

After Practice as a solicitor in the City he became an academic lawyer, with appointments in Kenya, Southampton and as a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Exeter College Oxford. As a Law Commissioner from 1978 to 1983 he was responsible for the Commission's family law programme.

On leaving the Commission he became Professor and Dean of the Faculty of law at Bristol University and in 1993 was elected Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College. He has served on a number of official committees dealing with the prison system, the administration of Family Law, judicial training and legal education.

John Eekelaar (LL.B. (London) 1963; B.C.L. (Oxon) 1965; M.A. (Oxon) 1967, held a Rhodes Scholarship from 1963-5, and was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship in 1965. He was called to the Bar in 1968 at the Inner Temple. He was a Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College from 1965 to 2005; he held a CUF Lecturership from 1966-91, and was Reader in Law until 2005. He was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in July 2001. He retired from teaching in 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he was Academic Director at Pembroke College. He continues research as Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).

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.

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.

Roy Goode, CBE, QC, LL B 1954, LL D (Lond) 1976,  DCL (Oxon) 2006, FBA, 1988, FRSA 1990, Barrister (IT) 1988, QC 1990, Hon Bencher, Inner Temple 1992-  , (Solr 1955-88); Hon. DSc Econ (Lond) 1996; Hon.LLD (University of East Anglia) 2003; Hon LLD (College of Law) 2011.  Distinguished Friend of Oxford 2011.  Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study, 2011 -   . Honorary President of Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London Knighted for services to academic law 2000.  Emeritus Professor of Law and Emeritus Fellow of St. John's College 1998- . 

Formerly: Professor of Law, Queen Mary College, 1971-73, Crowther Professor of Credit and Commercial Law, Queen Mary College, 1973-89, Founder and Director, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, 1979-89, Dean of Fac and Head of Department of Law 1976-80, QMC/ QMW. Norton Rose Prof of English Law and Fellow, St John's College 1990-1998.  Visiting Professor, Melbourne University, 1975, Australian Commonwealth Visiting Fellow, 1975; Visiting Professor, Monash University 1984, Falconbridge Visiting Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York UNiversity, 1987; Commonwealth Banking Corporation Visiting Professor, Monash University 1988; Thyssen Visiting Professor, University of Hamburg 1999; Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University, 1999; G.J. Wiarda Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht, 2003. President of the Council of the International Postgraduate Law School, Belgrade, 2003- . Former Board member of London Court of International Arbitration.  on Consumer Credit, 1968-71 and of Monopolies and Mergers Comm 1981-86. Chairman IBA Advertising Advisory Committee, 1976-80; Chairman, Commn on lnt Practice of Int Bar Assn 1993-1997; Chairman, Pension Law Review Committee, 1992-93.  Chairman, Commission on International Commercial Practice of International Chamber of Commerce 1993-1997.  Chairman Exec Committee, Justice; Member of Council, Br Inst Int and Comp Law; Member, DTI Committee on Arbitration, 1985- .and of Civil and Fam Committee of Judicial Studies Board. Member of Governing Council of International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) 1988-2003.  President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law 1991-1992.

Jeffrey Hackney has been a member of the Faculty since 1964, first as Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Edmund Hall and then at Wadham College. His teaching and research interests are in property law and legal history. His present preoccupation is with the extent to which it can be said that the common law is different from the civilian systems on the mainland of Europe. In particular with whether modern attempts at classifying the common law are based on defective models borrowed in the nineteenth century from roman law. He has been a visiting professor at a number of North American universities and for fifteen years, in association with the National Judicial College, organised continuing education conferences in Oxford for visiting American judges. He spent a large part of the early 1990s in University adminstration, chairing amongst other things the Libraries Board and the General Board of the Faculties. His present university tasks include the chairmanship of the University's Disciplinary Court. He was previously a founder-director of the New Law Publishing Company which pioneered same-day reporting of judicial decisions in the superior courts in property and commercial 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.

Peter Hayward was the Founding Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre.

Tony Honoré has been teaching in the Oxford faculty since 1948. Though retired from his Chair, he teaches seminars in Jurisprudence for the BCL jointly with Dr John Gardner.

His research interests lie in Roman legal history, especially that of the Roman jurists; Trust Law in South Africa and other civil law or mixed jurisdictions; legal philosophy, especially questions of responsibility; and comparative law.

He was Regius Professor of Civil Law from 1971 to 1988. He is the author of sixteen books and over a hundred articles.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School in 1980-82, 1984-90, and from 2005-2011, and Adjunct Professor at City University Hong Kong from 2008 2011 where he taught an intensive short course on international perspectives on the death penalty. In 1986 he received the Sellin-Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for 'Distinguished Contributions to Criminology'; in 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy; and in 1995 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 'for services to the study of criminology'; and in 2000 he was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel. He was sub-Warden of All Souls College from 1994-96, and was College Steward from 1993-2003. From October 2003 to May 2004 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. In 2003, a Festschrift entitled The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy (edited by Lucia Zedner and Andrew Ashworth) was published by Oxford University Press to mark his retirement. He was awarded an Honorary Ll.D by the University of Birmingham in 2008 and by Edinburgh Napier University in 2011. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in 2012 the European Society of Criminology Award ?for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist?
Since his retirement in 2003 he has lectured on the death penalty in China, Hong Kong, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, USA, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Trinidad, and Uganda.

His research has had four main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the history of the emergence of penal policy. The fourth edition of his book The Death Penalty: a Worldwide Perspective (with Carolyn Hoyle) was published by Oxford University Press in April 2008 and has since been translated into Chinese and Persian.

He is currently undertaking a public opinion survey on the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia on behalf of the London-based Death Penalty Project.

Ann Kennedy BA 1970, MA 1974, Oxon. Solr 1974. Fellow and Tutor, Lady Margaret Hall, and University Lecturer

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.

Martin Matthews LL 1968, Nottingham; LL B 1970, MA 1972, Cantab; MA, BCL 1973, Oxon; Barrister (GI) 1970. Fellow, University College 1973 - 2010 ; CUF 1973 - 2010

Formerly Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1970-73; Visiting Professor, University of Santa Clara Law School, 1983.

Peter North, CBE, QC. BA 1959, BCL, 1960, MA 1963, DCL 1976, Oxon, Hon LL D, Reading, FBA, Barrister. Hon Bencher (IT), Hon Fellow, Keble College, Hon Fellow, Univ College N Wales. Assoc Institut de droit Int 1985- . Vice-Chancellor 1993- . Principal. Jesus College, 1984- .

Formerly: Teaching Fellow. Northwestern University, Chicago, 1960-61; Assistant Lecturer. 1961-62, Lecturer 1962-63, Aberystwyth.. Lecturer 1964-65, Nottingham., University of Auckland. 1969. Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia. 1975-76; Tutorial Fellow, 1975-76, Fellow by Special Election 1975-84, Keble College; Law Cmmnr 1976--84, Chairman, Road Traffic Law Review. 198.5-88, Ed, Oxford Jl Legal Studies. 1987-92.

Dan Prentice was a Fellow of Pembroke College.

Joseph Raz was Research Professor at Oxford University and Professor at Columbia University Law School. See his personal home page for a detailed CV and publications lists.

Francis Reynolds QC (Hon) is an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College, Doctor of Civil Law, Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple. He is also Standing consultant on English law to Ang & Partners, Singapore; Honorary Professor, International Law Institute of the IMO, Malta; Titulary Member of the Comité Maritime International; and Supporting Member of the LMAA. Other Works Writer of Bowstead and Reynolds on Agency 13th-18th (2006) editions and contributor to 19th (2010).
Writer of parts of Chitty on Contracts 24th-30th (2008) eds; of Benjamin's Sale of Goods 1st-8th (2010) eds; of English Private Law ed Burrows, 1st and 2nd (2007) eds; and (with Sir Guenter Treitel) of Carver on Bills of Lading (1st and 2nd (2005) eds.
Editor, The Law Quarterly Review from 1987. Consultant Editor, Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly. Contact francis.reynolds@law.ox.ac.uk

Bernard Rudden is emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University and a Fellow of Brasenose College. An English solicitor, he holds the higher doctorates of law of Oxford, Cambridge, and (honorary) McGill, and is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Robert B Stevens Robert Stevens BA 1955, BCL 1956, MA 1959. DCL 1983, Oxon; LL M 1958, Yale; Hon LL D, Univ Penn, Villanova, NY, Hon D Litt, Haverford College, Barrister (GI) 1956. Master of Pembroke College 1993-

Formerly: Teaching Fellow, Northwestern, 1956-51, Tutor, Keble College. 1958-59, Asst Prof 1959-61, Assoc Prof 1961-65, Prof 1965-76, Yale, Provost, Tulane Univ. 1976-78, Pres, Haverford College, 1978-87. Chancellor, Univ California at Santa Cruz, 1987-93, Visiting Reader, Univ E Africa, 1962, Visiting Lect, LSE 1962-63, Visiting Prof, Univ Texas 1960, Stanford 1966 UCL 1991-94.

Special Interests: Contract, Legal History, Law in Developing Countries, Legal Profession.

Barbara Tearle LL B 1965, Birm, ALA 1970. After obtaining a law degree at Birmingham University, Barbara Tearle worked in a public library for a short period before studying for professional qualifications.

Her first professional post was at the Board of Trade Library (when it was the Board of Trade) where she set up a library for the Solicitor's Department. She moved to the Library of University College London in 1973 to be the Law subject specialist, and then came to the Bodleian Law Library in September 1988.

Miss Tearle is a member of the Library Association, the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL), the American Association of Law Libraries and the International Association of Law Libraries. She has been an elected member of BIALL's Council and active on several of its committees (standards, education, publications). She held the offices of Editor (1984-1990, editing The Law Librarian) and Chair (1995-96). In the latter capacity it was her privilege to be heavily involved in BIALL's annual conference in Northern Ireland at the height of the ceasefire.

An MSt in English Local History, obtained through the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, reflects personal interests.

Guenter Treitel QC, MA, DCL, FBA is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College.

Richard Tur MA. LLB Hons (Dundee) holds university qualifications in Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy and has been Benn Law Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford since 1979.

David Vaver, MA (BA, LLB(Hons), Auckland; JD Chicago), is an Emeritus Fellow of St Peter's College and former Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre. He was a member of the UK Intellectual Property Advisory Committee, and chaired the University's IP Advisory Group until he retired at the end of 2007. Before coming to Oxford, he taught for some 20 years in Canada (UBC (1971, 1978-85) and Osgoode Hall Law School (1985-98) and before that at the University of Auckland (1972-8). Professor Vaver has written extensively in intellectual property law, including two texts - Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trademarks (Toronto: Irwin Law 1997) and Copyright Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2000). His most recent work is a 5-volume compilation of leading IP articles, Intellectual Property Rights: Critical Concepts in Law (Routledge, 2006). Professor Vaver's inaugural lecture Intellectual Property: The State of the Art appears at (2000) 116 LQR 621. Professor Vaver's post was established and generously funded until 2004 by the Reuters Foundation, the educational and charitable trust established by the leading international media and financial information group, Reuters.