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jsb48@cam.ac.uk

Faculty Contact Details

Room: S10

Tel: (01223-3)30074

Emeritus Professor of Law

M.A. (Cantab.), DPhil (Oxon), KC (hon.), FBA, FRSA

Interests

Comparative Law in Western Europe (especially legal reasoning, public law and the law of obligations).  Current research on public law in France and Germany.

CV / Biography

Previously Professor of Law (1973) 2001-19, Professor of Law, University of Leeds (1989-2001) and Fellow and Tutor in Law, Wadham College, Oxford (1979-1989). Chair of the Council of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2005 to 2009.

Chair of the ALLEA (All European Academies) Working Group on Horizon Europe

Publications

 

Books

Contemporary French Administrative Law (with Francois Lichere) (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Co-Author/s:
Francois Lichere
ISBN 13:
9781316511169
Published Mar 2022

Markesinis' German Law of Torts (with André Janssen, Colm McGrath) (eds) (Hart Publications, 2019) 5th Edition

Co-Author/s:
André Janssen, Colm McGrath
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
978-1-5099-3319-6
Published Sep 2019

European Legal Development. The Case of Tort (with David Ibbetson) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Co-editor(s):
9781107021778
Co-Author/s:
David Ibbetson
ISBN:
110747562
ISBN 13:
978-1107475625
Published Oct 2012

Principles of French Law (with S. Boyron and S. Whittaker) (OUP, 2008)

Co-Author/s:
S. Boyron and S. Whittaker
ISBN 13:
978-0-19-954138-6
Published Mar 2008

Judiciaries within Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

ISBN:
0521860725
ISBN 13:
9780521860727
Published Aug 2006

French Legal Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

ISBN:
0521606128
ISBN 13:
9780521606127
Published Jun 2001

Book Chapters

"‘The importance of institutions’" (with Murice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut), The Method and Culture of Comparative Law (Hart, 2014), pp. 207-219

Publisher:
Pages:
207-219
Co-Author/s:
Murice Adams and Dirk Heirbaut
Published May 2014