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Hugh Collins, FBA (born 21 June 1953) is emeritus Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of All Souls College. [1] [2] He retains the former title as emeritus after Timothy Endicott took up the professorship on 1 July 2020. [3]
Until 2013, Collins was the Professor of English Law and former Head of the Law Department at the London School of Economics. [4] He was until 2013 the general editor for the Modern Law Review , the most widely read British academic law journal. Collins was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (later teaching at Brasenose College) and Harvard Law School before joining the LSE in 1991. [5]
Having a background in commercial law and contract law, Collins' most recent work has been focused on employment law and the possibility of regulating contracts for competitiveness and efficiency.
The LSE Law Department was rated first in the Research Assessment Exercise of 2008 while under Professor Collins' leadership.
In 2009–10 he was based in New York as Global Visiting Professor of Law at NYU.
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Sir Alfred Rupert Neale Cross was a prominent English lawyer and academic. He was the second of two sons of Arthur George Cross, an architect in Hastings, and Mary Elizabeth.
The Vinerian Scholarship is a scholarship given to the University of Oxford student who "gives the best performance in the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law". Currently, £2,500 is given to the winner of the scholarship, with an additional £950 awarded at the examiners' discretion to a proxime accessit (runner-up).
John Gardner was a Scottish legal philosopher. He was senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and prior to that the Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford and a fellow of University College, Oxford.
Sir Guenter Heinz Treitel was a German-born English academic and Vinerian Professor of English Law.
Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet, was a British jurist and Liberal Unionist turned Conservative politician from the Anson family.
Mountague Bernard was an English international lawyer.
Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, was a British barrister, scholar, and influential writer on law. He was the father of Leonard Cheshire, the British war hero and founder of the Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick.
Leslie John Green is a Scottish-Canadian scholar in the analytic philosophy of law, or jurisprudence as it is often called by academic lawyers. He is Professor of the Philosophy of Law and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University, and Professor of Law and Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Queen's University, Kingston.
The Chair of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow was founded in 1913, endowed by a grant from the receipts of the 1911 Scottish Exhibition held in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, as well as donations from the Merchants House of Glasgow and other donors. The chair has been held by a number of prominent historians of Scotland, including two Historiographers Royal. Although the chair is now based within the Department of History, it retains its original title.
Andrew Stephen Burrows, Lord Burrows, is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Professor of the Law of England and senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His work centres on private law. He is the main editor of the compendium English Private Law and the convenor of the advisory group that produced A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment as well as textbooks on English contract law. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 2 June 2020; he was the first Supreme Court judge to be appointed directly from academia.
Sir William Searle Holdsworth was an English legal historian and Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford University, amongst whose works is the 17-volume History of English Law.
The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to establish a Professorship of the Common Law in that University, as well as a number of Vinerian scholarships and readerships.
Harold Greville Hanbury was Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1949 to 1964.
John Robert Kenyon was a British lawyer and academic. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1828, he served as Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1844 until his death.
The position of Laudian Professor of Arabic, now known as the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor, at the University of Oxford was established in 1636 by William Laud, who at the time was Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Archbishop of Canterbury. The first professor was Edward Pococke, who was working as a chaplain in Aleppo in what is now Syria when Laud asked him to return to Oxford to take up the position. Laud's regulations for the professorship required lectures on Arabic grammar and literature to be delivered weekly during university vacations and Lent. He also provided that the professor's lectures were to be attended by all medical students and Bachelors of Arts at the university, although this seems not to have happened since Pococke had few students, despite the provision for non-attenders to be fined. In 1881, a university statute repealed Laud's regulations and provided that the professor was to lecture in "the Arabic, Syriac, and Chaldee Languages", and attached the professorship to a fellowship at St John's College.
The position of Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford was founded in 1918 shortly after the end of the First World War. Ferdinand Foch, or "Marshal Foch", was supreme commander of Allied forces from April 1918 onwards. The chair was endowed by an arms trader, Basil Zaharoff, in Foch's honour; he also endowed a post in English Literature at the University of Paris in honour of the British Field Marshal Earl Haig. Zaharoff wanted the University of Paris to have a right of veto over the appointment, but Oxford would not accept this. The compromise reached was that Paris should have a representative on the appointing committee. In advance of the first election, Stéphen Pichon unsuccessfully attempted to influence the decision. The first professor, Gustave Rudler, was appointed in 1920. As of 2015, the chair is held by Catriona Seth. The position is held in conjunction with a Fellowship of All Souls College.
The University of OxfordFaculty of Law is the law school of the University of Oxford. It has a history of over 800 years in the teaching and learning of law. Oxford's law school is currently ranked first in the world in the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Academic ranks in the United Kingdom are the titles, relative importance and power of employees in universities. In general the country has three academic career pathways: one focused on research one on teaching, and one that combines the two.
Timothy Endicott is a legal scholar and philosopher specializing in constitutional law and language and law. He is the Vinerian Professor of English Law in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.
