Right Hon Sir Jack Beatson FBA

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

Elected 2001

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2001
Sections: Law

Current post

Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales

Past appointments

Merton College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Law

1970 -

University of Cambridge Rouse Ball Professor of English Law

1970 -

Other Institutions Law Commissioner for England and Wales

1970 -

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

1970 -

Law Commission Law Commissioner

1970 -

University of Bristol Lecturer in Law

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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gerry Simpson FBA

The history, theory and language of public international law with particular attention to war crimes trials, and the Cold War

Professor David McClean FBA

Criminal Law and Justice, Criminology Private Law (Family, Persons) Conflict of Laws Legal System and Legal Institutions

Professor Ngaire Naffine FBA

Legal philosophy; criminal law theory; criminal justice and criminology; legal conceptual analysis especially the concept of the person; feminist legal theory

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Right Hon Sir Jack Beatson FBA

Current post

Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales

Past appointments

Merton College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Law

1970 -

University of Cambridge Rouse Ball Professor of English Law

1970 -

Other Institutions Law Commissioner for England and Wales

1970 -