Law Fellowship endowed thanks to the generosity of alumni

St Edmund Hall is delighted to announce completion of the endowment of a further Law Fellowship. It will be named 'The Jeffrey Hackney Fellowship in Law', in honour of Mr Jeffrey Hackney, former Tutor in Law at St Edmund Hall 1964-76, and an Emeritus Fellow from 1977. Jeffrey also served as Librarian (and was instrumental in converting the disused church of St Peter-in-the-East into the College’s new library) and Senior Tutor. He returned to Wadham College, where he had studied, as Tutorial Fellow in Law in 1976, and is now an Emeritus Fellow at both St Edmund Hall and Wadham.

The endowment has been made possible by a series of donations from alumni, and has now been completed by a munificent major donation from one of Jeffrey’s former students. The post is currently held by Aileen Kavanagh DPhil, (BCL, MA NUI), Magister Legum Europae (Hanover), DIPL (Vienna).

Our other Law Fellowship was endowed a few years ago and named after Sir Richard Gozney, after another very generous donation from an alumnus. This Fellowship is held presently by Professor Adrian Briggs, QC (Hon).

In addition, alumni giving and legacies have recently supported the establishment of undergraduate bursaries, a graduate scholarship and a BCL Scholarship in Law named in honour of William Asbrey, and an undergraduate bursary in Law named after Sir David Yardley.

Claire Hooper

Originally posted on the St Edmund Hall website.