Professor John Bell
- Emeritus Professor of Law
Contact
Location
- S10, Faculty of Law
About
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
Research
Comparative Law in Western Europe (especially legal reasoning, public law and the law of obligations). Current research on public law in France and Germany.
Research centres: Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS); Centre for Public Law (CPL)
Publications
Selected publications
Contemporary French Administrative Law
Book
1 March 2022
John Bell, Francois Lichere
Markesinis' German Law of Torts
Book
1 September 2019
Hart Publishing
John Bell, André Janssen, Colm McGrath
‘The importance of institutions’
Chapter
1 May 2014
In The Method and Culture of Comparative Law, Hart Publishing
John Bell, Murice Adams, Dirk Heirbaut, Murice Adams, Dirk Heirbaut
European Legal Development. The Case of Tort
Book
1 October 2012
John Bell, David Ibbetson, David Ibbetson, 9781107021778
Principles of French Law
Book
1 March 2008
Oxford University Press
John Bell, S. Boyron, S. Whittaker, S. Boyron, S. Whittaker
Judiciaries within Europe
Book
1 August 2006
John Bell
French Legal Cultures
Book
1 June 2001
John Bell