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)
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13:
9781316511169
Published Mar 2022
Markesinis' German Law of Torts (with André Janssen, Colm McGrath) (eds) (Hart Publications, 2019) 5th Edition
Publisher:
Hart Publications
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
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
110747562
Published Oct 2012
Principles of French Law (with S. Boyron and S. Whittaker) (OUP, 2008)
Publisher:
OUP
ISBN 13:
978-0-19-954138-6
Published Mar 2008
Judiciaries within Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
0521860725
ISBN 13:
9780521860727
Published Aug 2006
French Legal Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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:
Hart
Pages:
207-219
Published May 2014
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