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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

University Education:          

BA (Jurisprudence) (First Class Honours) 1971

BCL 1972

Scholarships:

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

University Teaching and Lectures/Seminars:

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

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

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

Other lecturing and teaching:

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

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

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

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

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

Nature of practice:

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

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

Legislation:

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

Journals:

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

Judicial role:

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

Expert evidence:

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

Selected Other Roles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honours                        

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

Publications:                 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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