Professor Roger Cotterrell FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2005
- Subjects
- Law
- Sections
- Law
Summary
Roger Cotterrell is Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London, and taught previously at the University of Leicester. His academic qualifications are in both law and sociology and his main research specialisms are jurisprudence, sociology of law, comparative law and social theory. He is the author or editor of 14 books and more than 140 essays and articles in these fields. In 2013 he was awarded the lifetime achievement award of the Socio-Legal Studies Association 'for contributions to the socio-legal community' and in 2014 was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has held visiting academic positions in Hong Kong, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, the United States and Spain and his publications have been translated into ten languages. A primary concern of much of his research has been to show how sociological perspectives can illuminate juristic scholarship and to explore the significance of law as a focus of sociological inquiry.
Current post
Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory, Queen Mary University of London
Past appointments
Queen Mary University of London Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory
2005 -
Queen Mary University of London Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory, Queen Mary, University of London
2005 -
Queen Mary University of London Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory, Queen Mary, University of London
2005 -
Queen Mary University of London Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor
1974 - 2005
University of Leicester Lecturer
1969 - 1974
University of Leicester
1969 - 1973
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Alan Norrie FBA
Justice in critical & dialectical philosophy; the social-theoretical understanding of law; crime & punishment; criminal law & theories of responsibilities
Professor Davina Cooper FBA
Sociolegal studies and contemporary political theory; specialising in state activism (particularly in British local government); gender and sexuality equality governance; everyday utopias and prefigurative institutions; and new conceptual methodologies
