Summary
John Bell is a comparative lawyer who specialises in French and German laws. He is currently Professor of Law (1973) at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he worked at the Universities of Oxford and Leeds. He is also a Deacon of the Diocese of East Anglia. He is the Chair of the ALLEA Working Group on Horizon Europe and involved in the Academy's input to the funding of research in Europe. Professor Bell specialises in French and German laws, especially the law of obligations and public law. He has worked on the role of judiciaries (professional and lay) in western European countries
Current post
Professor of Law, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Professor of Law (1973)
2001 -
University of Leeds Professor of Public and Comparative Law
1989 - 2001
Wadham College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in Law
1979 - 1989
Publications
Cross: Statutory Interpretation
John Bell and George Engel - Published in 1976 by Oxford University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Susan Marks FBA
Public international law; international human rights law; history and theory of human rights
Professor Issa Shivji FBA
Public Law in its socio-economic and historical context. Critical political economy of the agrarian question in Africa. Thought and Politics of Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Tanzania’s independence leader and first president
