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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 James Gordley FBA

The historical development of the civil law and its influence on the common law; the reappraisal of modern private law through the use of comparative and historical methods

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Professor Dame Sarah Worthington FBA

Commercial equity and corporate law, with special emphasis on personal property/secured financing, and corporate and contract governance issues.

Professor Dame Sarah Worthington FBA

Professor Louise Gullifer FBA

National and transnational commercial and financial law; law relating to secured transactions, debt corporate finance, corporate insolvency, set-off and personal property

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