Dawn Oliver

Last updated

Dawn Oliver

FBA
Born (1942-09-09) 9 September 1942 (age 80)
NationalityBritish
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-discipline Constitutional law
Institutions University College, London

A. Dawn H. Oliver FBA (born 1942) is a British constitutional legal scholar. She is Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law at University College, London. [1] [2]

Contents

Biography

Oliver was born on 9 September 1942. [3] She was Dean of the Faculty of Law at UCL from 1993 to 1998. [1] She was elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 2005, [2] and as an elected as an honorary Queen's Counsel in 2012. [4]

Select publications

Related Research Articles

Sir Donald Neil MacCormick was a Scottish legal philosopher and politician. He was Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 until 2008. He was a Member of the European Parliament 1999–2004, member of the Convention on the Future of Europe, and officer of the Scottish National Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Feldman (lawyer)</span> British legal academic and former judge

David John Feldman is a British legal academic, author and former judge. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, and served as an international judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement from 2002 to 2010. He is known for having shaped the development of civil liberties and human rights law in the United Kingdom.

Paul Philip Craig, is a British legal scholar, specialising in administrative and European Union law. He was Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2019, and is now emeritus professor.

Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE, KC (Hon), FBA is a leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world, and is a former Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London.

Charles Christopher James Mitchell QC (Hon) is a British legal scholar acknowledged as one of the leading common-law experts on the English law of restitution of unjust enrichment and the law of trusts. He is the author of two leading textbooks and one practitioner's book. He is currently Professor of Law at University College London and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Peter John Rhodes,, usually cited as P. J. Rhodes, was a British academic and ancient historian. He was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Durham. He specialized in Ancient Greek politics and political institutions.

James Richard Crawford, AC, SC, FBA was an Australian academic and practitioner in the field of public international law. He was elected as Judge of the International Court of Justice for a full term of 9 years in November 2014 and took his seat on the court in February 2015. From 1990 to 1992 Crawford was Dean of the Sydney Law School where he was also the Challis Professor of International Law from 1986 to 1992. From 1992 to 2014, he was Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow in Law at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was formerly Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, also at Cambridge.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sandra Fredman</span>

Sandra Fredman FBA, KC (hon) is a professor of law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

Alfred William Brian Simpson, QC (Hon.), JP, FBA usually referred to as Brian Simpson and publishing as A. W. Brian Simpson, was a British legal historian and legal philosopher. At the time of his retirement, he was Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier is a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.

Jane Stapleton is an Australian academic lawyer with a specialism in tort law. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge.

Wilfrid Joseph Waluchow, known as Wil Waluchow or W. J. Waluchow, is a Canadian philosopher, currently the Senator William McMaster Chair in Constitutional Studies at McMaster University, where he has taught since 1984. General jurisprudence and the philosophy of constitutional law are his main research interests.

Emily Meg Jackson, is a British legal scholar who specialises in medical law. She has been a professor of Law at the London School of Economics since 2007 and Head of its Law Department since 2012. She has previously researched or lectured at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, at Birkbeck College, University of London, and at Queen Mary, University of London.

Christopher Hugh Gosden is a British-Australian archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of identity, particularly English identity. He is Professor of European Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He is also a trustee of the British Museum.

Dawn Chatty, is an American Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, who specialises in the Middle East, nomadic pastoral tribes, and refugees. From 2010 to 2015, she was Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration at the University of Oxford and from 2011 to 2014, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.

Nicola Mary Lacey, is a British legal scholar who specialises in criminal law. Her research interests include criminal justice, criminal responsibility, and the political economy of punishment. Since 2013, she has been Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). She was previously Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at LSE (1998–2010), and then Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (2010–2013).

Dame Sarah Elizabeth Worthington, is a British legal scholar, barrister, and Deputy High Court Judge in the Chancery Division, specialising in company law, commercial law, and equity. Since 2011, she has been the Downing Professor of the Laws of England at the University of Cambridge. She is Treasurer of the British Academy and a trustee of the British Museum.

Amia Srinivasan is a philosopher. Since January 2020, she has been Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luís Viana Filho</span> Brazilian politician

Luís Viana Filho, in old spelling Luiz Vianna Filho, was a Brazilian lawyer, professor, historian and politician who governed the state Bahia from 1967 to 1971.

Laura Tunbridge, is a British musicologist and academic, specialising in 19th and 20th-century music, Robert Schumann, and opera. She has been Professor of Music at the University of Oxford since 2017 and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford since 2014. Previously, she taught at the University of Reading and the University of Manchester.

References

  1. 1 2 "Prof Dawn Oliver". University College London. 11 September 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Professor Dawn Oliver FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  3. "Oliver, Dawn - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)".
  4. "New Queen's Counsel 2011 12". The Times. 29 February 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2021.