Professor William Twining FBA

Law East Africa
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Year of death
2025
Subjects
Law
Sections
Law

Last post

Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, University College London

Past appointments

University College London Quain Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus, University College London

2004 -

University College London Quain Professor of Jurisprudence then Research Professor of Law

1983 -

University of Warwick Professor of Law

1972 - 1982

Queen's University Belfast Professor of Jurisprudence

1966 - 1972

Publications

General Jurisprudence 2009

Karl Llewellyn and the realist movement 1973

Rethinking evidence 1994

Globalisation and legal theory 2000

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