Professor Richard Fentiman appointed Chair of the Faculty Board

Professor Richard Fentiman has become Chair of the Faculty of Law. He succeeds Professor Eilís Ferran at the end of her three-year term of office.

Richard Fentiman is a Fellow of Queens’ College and Professor of Private International Law. A specialist in commercial dispute resolution, he is the author of International Commercial Litigation (2nd ed, 2015), and Foreign Law in English Courts (1998), and has published widely in the areas of private international law and commercial litigation. He has previously served as Director of the LLM Course, as Chair of the Degree Committee, and mostly recently as Deputy Chair of the Faculty. In 2014 he was awarded the University’s Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching.

Reflecting on his new role Professor Fentiman said: "It is a privilege to lead one of the world’s premier law schools, and one with such a distinctive ethos and vision. Our strength lies, and I hope will always lie, in the belief that world class research goes hand in hand with exceptional teaching, and in the tradition of personal, tailored education which makes the student experience so special."

Professor Fentiman is succeeded as Deputy Chair by Professor Neil Andrews.