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
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Law
- Sections
- Law
Current post
W R Irby Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jeremy Waldron FBA
Legal & political theory, both historical & modern, including theories of human rights, the rule of law, property, historic injustice, cosmopolitanism, democracy & unconditional structure, as well as torture & other security issues.
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
