The Faculty welcomes the election of Professor David Ibbetson FBA as the eighth President of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Professor Ibbetson will succeed Sir Martin Harris who will be retiring in Summer 2013. Professor Ibbetson is Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge since 2000. He is currently a Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Warden of Leckhampton, the College's graduate student centre. Earlier, he had been a Fellow and Senior Tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Professor Ibbetson said about his election, "It is an exciting privilege to be joining Clare Hall and I look forward to leading it through the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 2016".
Clare Hall was founded in 1966 as a centre for advanced study, bringing together research scholars of different nationalities and academic disciplines, from graduate students studying for a higher degree to senior academics.
Clare Hall currently has 30 fellows, 25 research fellows, together with 165 graduate students. Additionally, the College welcomes 40 visiting fellows every year who come on sabbatical leave from their home universities. Most of these academics are from overseas, giving the College a strong international flavour.