A brief biography | a longer cv

Born 1965 in Glasgow | School: Glasgow Academy (1970-1982)

Exhibitioner, then Honorary Senior Scholar, New College, Oxford (1983-1987) | BA in law first class (1986) | BCL first class and winner of the Vinerian Scholarship (1987) | DPhil (1995)

Called to the English Bar (1988) | Bencher, Inner Temple (2003- )

Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-1991, 1998-2000)

Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford and Lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford (1991-1996)  

Reader in Legal Philosophy in the University of London based at King's College London (1996-2000)

Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford (2000- )

Visiting positions: Columbia Law School (2000) | Yale Law School (2002-3, 2005) | Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences (2003, 2006) | University of Texas at Austin School of Law (2006) | Princeton University Philosophy Department (2008) | Australian National University College of Law (2008) | University of Auckland Faculty of Law (2010)

Some former DPhil students: Scott Hershovitz (2001) | Jonathan Garton (2002) | Brendan McGurk (2005) | Shlomit Wallerstein (2005) | Michelle Madden Dempsey (2007) | Amit Pundik (2008) | François Tanguay-Renaud (2008) | Prince Saprai (2009) | Maris Köpcke Tinture (2009) | Luis Duarte D'Almeida (2011) | James Edwards (2011) | Matthew Shapiro (2012) | Shivprasad Swaminathan (2013)

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A BCL Jurisprudence seminar 1986. Clockwise from left: Mike Otsuka, John Gardner, Joseph Raz, John Finnis, Bryant Smith, Alon Harel; next figure unidentified; finally Martin Stone. Photo by Fran Olsen (UCLA) - thanks Fran!