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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Professor Lionel Smith FBA

Lionel Smith’s latest book, 'The Law of Loyalty', was published by OUP in 2023. He is the author of 'The Law of Tracing' (OUP 1997) and a co-author of 'Waters’ Law of Trusts' in Canada, 5th edn (Carswell 2021).

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Professor Dame Sarah Worthington FBA

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Professor Dame Sarah Worthington FBA

Professor Susanne Baer FBA

Comparative constitutionalism, fundamental rights, interdisciplinary studies of law, gender studies, critical and feminist legal theory

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