Margaretha "Margot" Horspool (born 1938) is a British academic specialising in the law of the European Union. She is Emeritus Professor of European and Comparative Law at the University of Surrey and Professorial Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She has been a Professor at the University of Notre Dame, London programme. [1]
Born a Dutch citizen, she trained as an interpreter and became an interpreter for the European Coal and Steel Community. She was one of the interpreters for the Van Gend en Loos case, a landmark case of the European Court of Justice. In 1964 she married Christopher Horspool, a British lawyer whom she had met while he was on a legal scholarship in Luxembourg. [2] They had two sons, including David Horspool.
Her career took a new turn when she took a law degree at King's College London. She was appointed to a lectureship (later Senior Lectureship) at University College London. She became Director of European Legal Studies at University College succeeding Eleanor Sharpston, and worked closely with Basil Markesinis and David O'Keeffe. She co-authored European Union Law, published by Oxford University Press, [3] that reached its eleventh edition in 2021. She wrote the first edition of this book alone in 1997 and has had several co-authors for its subsequent revised editions. [4] [5] She was appointed Professor of European and Comparative Law at the University of Surrey, and following her retirement was granted the title of Emeritus Professor [6] and also became a Professorial Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London.
Sir Michael Eliot Howard was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. In 1958, he co-founded the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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.
Martin John Millett, is a British archaeologist and academic. He is the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Since 2021, he has been president of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Jay G Blumler was an American-British theorist of communication and media. He was Professor of Public Communication at the University of Leeds.
Dame Olwen Hufton, is a British historian of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history. She is an expert on early modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on gender, poverty, social relations, religion and work. Since 2006 she has been a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.
David O'Keeffe is a British lawyer who is Emeritus Professor of European Law, University of London. He is Senior Counsel of Dentons international law firm. He is a part-time European administrative law judge.
Paul Lyndon Davies QC, FBA is Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law Emeritus at the University of Oxford, Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, where he was the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law from 1998 to 2009.
David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and professor of sociology at New York University, and professorial fellow in Criminology at Edinburgh Law School. He is well known for his historical and sociological studies of penal institutions, for his work on the welfare state, and for his contributions to criminology, social theory, and the study of social control.
Procureur du Roi v Benoît and Gustave Dassonville (1974) Case 8/74 is an EU law case of the European Court of Justice, in which a 'distinctly applicable measure of equivalent effect' to a quantitative restriction of trade in the European Union was held to exist on a Scotch whisky imported from France.
Sandra Fredman FBA, QC (hon) is a professor of law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
William Elliott Butler is a jurist and educator, the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University (2005-) and Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (2006-), and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London (2005-). He is a pre-eminent authority on the legal systems of Russia, other members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and Mongolia. He is also extensively involved in the fields of public and private international law.
Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah is a legal academic. He is an Emeritus Professor and former C. J. Koh Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of Law at the University of Malaya, and the former head of the school of law at the University of Tasmania. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Rights, London School of Economics. He has been arbitrator, counsel or expert in several leading investment arbitrations.
Anne Davies is professor of law and public policy in the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford and professorial fellow in law at Brasenose College, Oxford, She was dean of the Faculty of Law from 2015 to 2020. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, where she chairs the Procurement of Government Outcomes Club. She is a former general editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. As of 2021 she is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations.
Birke Häcker is a German legal scholar. Since 2016, she has been the Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.
Richard Michael Smith, FBA, FRHistS is a historical geographer and demographer. He was professor of historical geography and demography at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2011, where he is now an emeritus professor, and served as director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (1994–2012). He was also a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, from 1994 to 2010.
Sarah C. "Sally" Humphreys is a classical scholar who unites the theories and methods of history and social anthropology in her work. She is currently Professor Emerita of History, Anthropology, and Greek at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
John David Thomas, FBA, usually known as J. David Thomas, is a papyrologist and classical scholar. He was Professorial Fellow in Papyrology at Durham University between 1990 and 1992. He completed his undergraduate education at Worcester College, Oxford, and then carried out doctoral studies at the University of Wales. He lectured at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1955 to 1966, when he was appointed to a lectureship in palaeography at Durham. He remained there and was promoted to a readership in papyrology in 1977, before his appointed to the professorial fellowship in 1990. Since retiring in 1992, he has been an emeritus professor at Durham.
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