Louise Gullifer elected as Fellow of the British Academy

Louise Gullifer, Professor of Commercial Law, is one of the leading academic commercial lawyers in the UK, best known for her work on personal property security law and its reform. While maintaining the highest standards of academic rigour, she has immersed herself in the practical working of the law, in particular in financial markets. Among the many reasons for Louise’s election to the Academy’s Fellowship, is the fact that no one outside practice of the law has her understanding of the ways that financial markets work, how they are regulated and how they react to that regulation.

Louise is one of seventy-six academics who have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy today, in recognition of their achievements in the humanities and social sciences.  These new Fellows of the British Academy join a community of over 1400 of the leading minds that make up the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Current Fellows include the classicist Professor Dame Mary Beard, the historian Professor Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Professor Baroness Onora O’Neill, while previous Fellows include Dame Frances Yates, Sir Winston Churchill, Baroness Mary Warnock, C.S Lewis, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb.

As well as a fellowship, the British Academy is a funding body for research, nationally and internationally, and a forum for debate and engagement.

Professor Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy, said:

“The British Academy has always recognised pioneering research in the humanities and social sciences, and 2019 is no exception. This year we have elected a particularly multi-skilled and versatile cohort of Fellows whose research crosses conventional academic boundaries.

“Whether it is climate conservation or the ageing society, the rise of artificial intelligence or social cohesion, our new Fellows’ wealth of expertise means the Academy is exceptionally well-placed to provide new knowledge and insights on the challenges of today. Their work has opened rich new seams of understanding and discovery, offering new perspectives on long-standing and emerging challenges alike.

“I extend my warmest welcome and heartiest congratulations to all our new Fellows, Corresponding Fellows and Honorary Fellows. I look forward to working with these outstanding scholars to build on the Academy’s excellent and ever-expanding record of achievement.”