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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)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2001
Subjects
Law
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 Rebecca Probert FBA

The laws governing marriage, divorce, cohabitation and bigamy in England and Wales from the 17th century to the present day

Rebecca Probert FBA

Professor Gillian Douglas FBA

The relationship between family law and social change; legal recognition of family ties, the consequences of relationship breakdown, and experiences of the family justice system

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Professor David Garland FBA

Social theory; the sociology of punishment and control; historical and comparative analysis of legal institutions; the history and sociology of welfare states; sociology of law; criminological theory

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