Downing College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge and currently has around 950 students. Founded in 1800,it was the only college to be added to Cambridge University between 1596 and 1869,and is often described as the oldest of the new colleges and the newest of the old. Downing College was formed "for the encouragement of the study of Law and Medicine and of the cognate subjects of Moral and Natural Science",and has developed a reputation amongst Cambridge colleges for Law and Medicine.
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay,Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. The site on which the college sits was once a priory for Dominican monks,and the College Hall is built on the foundations of the monastery's nave. Emmanuel is one of the 16 "old colleges",which were founded before the 17th century.
The Knightbridge Professorship of Philosophy is the senior professorship in philosophy at the University of Cambridge. There have been 22 Knightbridge professors,the incumbent being Rae Langton.
Terence Michael Elkan Barnet Etherton,Baron Etherton,is a British retired judge and member of the House of Lords. He was the Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice from 2016 to 2021 and Chancellor of the High Court from 2013 to 2016.
Robert Lionel Archibald Goff,Baron Goff of Chieveley,was an English barrister and judge who was Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary,the equivalent of today's President of the Supreme Court. Best known for establishing unjust enrichment as a branch of English law,he has been described by Andrew Burrows as "the greatest judge of modern times". Goff was the original co-author of Goff &Jones,the leading English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment,first published in 1966. He practised as a commercial barrister from 1951 to 1975,following which he began his career as a judge. He was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in 1986.
Stephen John Toope is a Canadian legal scholar,academic administrator and a scholar specializing in human rights,public international law and international relations. In November 2022,he was appointed as the fifth President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). Prior to this,he served for five years as the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Arnold Duncan McNair,1st Baron McNair was a British jurist and judge of the International Court of Justice and later the first president of the European Court of Human Rights.
Dame Nancy Jane Rothwell is a British physiologist. She has served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester since July 2010,having served as Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor until January 2010.
William James Stirling was a physicist who served as the first Provost of Imperial College London. He was appointed to this role in August 2013 and retired in August 2018.
Sir Kenneth Clinton Wheare,CMG was an Australian academic,who spent most of his career at Oxford University in England. He was an expert on the constitutions of the British Commonwealth. He advised constitutional assemblies in former British colonies.
William Walsh was successively Professor of Education,Professor of Commonwealth Literature and Acting Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds.
John Green was an English clergyman and academic. He became the chaplain of Charles Seymour,6th Duke of Somerset,and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Gareth Hywel Jones,QC,FBA was a Welsh academic and longtime fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge,and Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge.
David Clarke is deputy vice-chancellor and Professor of Law at Bristol University.
A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment is a legal treatise by Andrew Burrows,written in collaboration with an advisory group of academics,judges and practitioners. The treatise takes the form of a restatement that is akin to the American Law Institute's highly influential Restatements of the Law. Restatements are very rare in common law jurisdictions other than the United States.
Brian Westerdale Downs was an English literary scholar and linguist. He served as Master of Christ's College,Cambridge,from 1950 to 1963 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 1955 to 1957. From 1950 to 1960,he was the Professor of Scandinavian Studies at Cambridge.
Evelyn Algernon Valentine Ebsworth,was a British chemist and academic. He was the Crum Brown Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from 1967 to 1990,and Vice-Chancellor and Warden of Durham University from 1990 to 1998.
Goff and Jones on the Law of Unjust Enrichment is the leading authoritative English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment. First written by Robert Goff and Gareth Jones,it is presently in its tenth edition. It is published by Sweet &Maxwell and forms part of the Common Law Library.
Alan Peter Bookbinder is a British journalist,charity executive,and academic administrator. From October 2018 to 2023,he served as Master of Downing College,Cambridge. He previously worked for the BBC,and was Director of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts from 2006 to 2018.
Paul S Davies is an English barrister and academic notable for having been published in many areas of private law,particularly commercial law. He has been the chair in Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law,University College London since 2017 and has practised as a barrister at Essex Court Chambers since 2021.
