Professor Catharine A MacKinnon FBA

Equality, specialising in sex and gender, in law, theory and politics, encompassing constitutional law, international law, criminal law, civil and human rights, including comparative, jurisprudence, political and legal theory. Critical engagement with national and international laws of sexual assault proposing creative initiatives toward gender equality transforming legal and social responses to sexual violation and gender hierarchy
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Law
Sections
Law

Current post

University of Michigan Law School Elizabeth A Long Professor of Law

Harvard Law School The James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Q. Whitman FBA

James Q. Whitman's research interests are comparative law and legal history, especially of the Roman legal tradition; and comparative law of United States and continental Europe.

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Professor Jane Stapleton FBA

The private law of obligations; comparative common law; compensation systems; judicial reasoning and the philosophical foundations of the common law in areas such as causation and the duty of care

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