Professor Christopher McCrudden FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2008
- Subjects
- Law
- Sections
- Law
Summary
Christopher McCrudden is professor of human rights and equality law at Queens University Belfast, William W Cook Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and a practicing barrister-at-law with Blackstone Chambers. He was formerly Professor of Human Rights at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He was educated at Queen's University Belfast (LL.B. first class honours, 1974), Yale University (LL.M. 1975), and Oxford University (M.A. 1980, D. Phil. 1981). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Queen's University in 2006, and a certificate of merit by the American Society of International Law in 2008. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, and is co-editor of Cambridge University Press' Law in Context series. He was a member of the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights (1984-88), and the Procurement Board for Northern Ireland (2004-2008). In 2011, he was awarded a three-year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. During 2013-14, he a a Straus Fellow at New York University Law School, and during 2014-15 he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
Current posts
Queen’s University Belfast Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law
University of Michigan Law School William W Cook Global Professor of Law
Past appointments
Queen's University Belfast Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law
2011 -
University of Oxford Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford
1999 -
University of Oxford Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, Lincoln College, Oxford
1999 -
University of Michigan William W Cook Global Professor of Law
1998 -
Lincoln College University of Oxford Senior Tutor
1991 - 1994
Balliol College University of Oxford Junior Research Fellow
1977 - 2000
Balliol College University of Oxford Junior Research Fellowship
1977 - 2000
Publications
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