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Professor William Cornish FBA

Law

Elected 1984

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year of birth: 1937
Year of death: 2022
Year elected: 1984
Sections: Law

Last post

Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow, Magdalene College

Past appointments

Magdalene College University of Cambridge Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow, Magdalene College

2004 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Law, then Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law

1990 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of English Law

1970 - 1990

Publications

Oxford History of the Laws of England Vols XI-XIII 2010 1st

The jury 1968

Intellectual property: patents, copyright, trade marks and allied rights 1981

Law and society in England, 1750-1950 1989

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