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48 Med. Sci. & L. 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/mdsclw48 and id is 1 raw text is: The Hon. Mr Justice Beatson FBA, President of the Academy 2007-2009 1 The Hon. Mr Justice Beatson FBA, President of the Academy 2007-2009 After studying law at Oxford and qualifying as a barrister, Sir Jack Beatson taught law, first at the University of Bristol, and from 1973 at Merton College, Oxford. He specialised in administrative law, contract law and the law of restitution. From 1983 he combined his academic work with practice as a barrister at Essex Court Chambers. Between 1989 and 1994 he was a member of the Law Commission of England and Wales. He was the Commissioner responsible for work in contract and commercial law, civil evidence, damages, administrative law, and financial services. His work led to the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1992, the Civil Evidence Act 1995, the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1995, and the Damages Act 1996. Between 1994 and 2003, when he was appointed to the High Court, he was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the Univer- sity of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was the Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Public Law and has held visiting positions in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. He served as a member of the Competition Commission between 1995 and 2001 and conducted a review of Bailiff Law for the Lord Chancellor's Department in 1999, which was largely implemented in the Tribunals and Enforcement Act 2007. His major publications are Anson's Law of Contract, Administrative Law: Cases and Materials 1985 and 1989, with M. Matthews, and Human Rights: The 1998 Act and the European Convention, 2000, with S. Grosz and P. Duffy. He also co-edited Jurists Uprooted: German Speaking Emigr6 Lawyers in 20th Century Britain with R. Zimmermann which records the contributions of 6migr6 and refu- gee legal scholars to English law. His non professional interests include walking, gardening and trying to relax. He has been married to Charlotte for almost 35 years. They have one daughter and had a son who died aged 27.

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