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Right Hon Sir Jack Beatson

Private Law (Contract, Restitution, Commercial law), Constitutional and Administrative Law (in particular the position of the judiciary and human rights)

Elected 2001

Year elected
2001
Subjects
Law
Website

Current post

Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales

Past appointments

Merton College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Law

Jan 1970 -

University of Cambridge Rouse Ball Professor of English Law

Jan 1970 -

Other Institutions Law Commissioner for England and Wales

Jan 1970 -

Other Institutions Justice of the High Court Queen's Bench Division

Jan 1970 -

Law Commission Law Commissioner

Jan 1970 -

University of Bristol Lecturer in Law

Jan 1970 -

Publications

Reforming an Unwritten Constitution Law Quarterly Review 48 -2010

Forensic Science and Human Rights Medicine Science and the Law -2009

The use and abuse of unjust enrichment 1991

Anson's Law of Contract 2003, 27th ed, 2010, 28th ed

Jurists Uprooted: German-speaking Emigres in Twentieth-Century Britain 2004

Human rights: Judicial Protection in the UK 2008

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English, European & American legal history; comparative law, with particular attention to modern German civil & criminal procedure; Anglo-American equity, trust, pension & employee benefit law.

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