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

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Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Martti Koskenniemi FBA

History and theory of international law from early modern statehood to modern international institutions; relations between sovereignty and property, and the fragmentation of international law in the twenty-first century

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Professor Catherine Barnard FBA

European Union law, especially the single market; Brexit and the UK-EU future relationship; employment law, especially equality law, and its European dimension

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Professor Kenneth Reid FBA

The law of property, both in Scotland and as part of European private law; doctrinal legal history, especially of the 18th and 19th centuries; law reform; mixed jurisdictions

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