John Eekelaar

Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College

Biography

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. In 2019 he was elected as a Fellow of King's College, London, where he had taken his first degree in 1965.

Research Interests

Family Law, Constitutional Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Jurisprudence