Summary
Sir Ross Cranston is a judge of the High Court, Queens Bench Division and from 2016 judge in charge of the Administrative Court. He is also a Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously he was Centennial Professor and Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at LSE. He was a member of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom from 1997-2005 and Solicitor General from 1998-2001. Before that he was Lubbock Professor of Banking Law, Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and Dean of Laws at Queen Mary, University of London. He was educated at the University of Queensland and at Harvard Law School and Oxford. He has held consultancies with UNCTAD, the World Bank, the IMF and the Commonwealth Secretariat to advise different countries on commercial, banking and securities laws. He has also undertaken reviews of the legal system for the European Commission in Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. He was a member of the legal advisory panel of the National Consumer Council, chair of trustees of the whistleblower's charity, Public Concern at Work and a trustee of Build It International and NOFAS UK.
Current post
Professor of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Past appointments
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Law
2017 -
Royal Courts of Justice Justice of the High Court, Royal Courts of Justice
2007 -
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Centennial Professor of Law
2005 - 2007
Other Institutions Solicitor General
1998 - 2001
Dudley North MP
1997 - 2005
London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Cassel Professor of Commercial Law
1992 - 1997
Queen Mary University of London Lubbock Professor of Banking Law
1986 - 1992
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michael Freeman FBA
Family law with particular emphasis on the law relating to children, and to issues of children's rights; and medicine, ethics and the law, with a particular focus on medically assisted reproduction
Professor Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson FBA
Comparative law, European contract law and internationalisation of the law, English legal system, French legal tradition, administrative law, private international law, environmental law; data protection; education sector
Professor Neil Walker FBA
The constitutional basis of transnational legal orders, with particular reference to the European Union; the impact of globalisation on law; the relationship between law & security.
