Judge and Jurist
Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger
Edited by Andrew Burrows, David Johnston, QC, and Reinhard Zimmermann
Author Information
Andrew Burrows, Professor of the Law of England, University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College,David Johnston, QC, Axiom Chambers, and honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh,Reinhard Zimmermann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, and Professor of Roman Law and Legal History, Bucerius Law School
Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is Professor of the Law of England at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at All Souls. He sits as a Recorder and is a door tenant at Fountain Court Chambers. He was formerly the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law and a Fellow of St. Hugh's College. He was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales from 1994 to 1999. He is the author of many books on unjust enrichment, contract and remedies.
David Johnston, QC practises mainly in public law (including human rights) and commercial law. He was appointed QC in 2005. He is also an honorary professor of law at the University of Edinburgh
Reinhard Zimmermann is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and is Chairman of the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Division of the Max Planck Society. He is the author of numerous books on comparative law and legal history, including The Law of Obligations (1996) and The New German Law of Obligations (2005).
Contributors:
Ross G. Anderson, Lecturer, University of Glasgow
Jack Beatson, Lord Justice of Appeal; formerly Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge
Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Andrew Burrows, QC (hon), Professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College
John W. Cairns, Professor of Civil Law, University of Edinburgh
David L. Carey Miller, Emeritus Professor of Property Law, University of Aberdeen; Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS
Tiziana J. Chiusi, Professor of Private Law, Roman Law and Comparative Law, and Co-Director of the Institute of European Law, Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Paul Cullen, The Hon Lord Pentland, Senator of the College of Justice
Jacques du Plessis, Professor of Private Law, University of Stellenbosch
Paul J. du Plessis, Senior Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh
Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls; and former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
David Edward, Judge of the European Court of First Instance 1989-92 and of the European Court of Justice 1992-2004; Professor Emeritus, University of Edinburgh
Robin Evans-Jones, Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Aberdeen
Joshua Getzler, Professor of Law and Legal History, University of Oxford and Fellow of St Hugh's College
Sandy Ghandhi, Professor of Law, University of Reading
William M. Gordon, Formerly Douglas Professor of Civil Law, University of Glasgow
Birke Häcker, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Baroness Hale of Richmond, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Phillip Hellwege, Professor of Private Law, Commercial Law, and Legal History, University of Augsburg
Lord Hoffmann, former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Lord Hope of Craighead, Deputy President, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
David Ibbetson, Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Cambridge
David Johnston QC, Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh
Rolf Knütel, Emeritus Professor of Roman Law and Private Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn
Luigi Labruna, Emeritus Professor of Roman Law, University of Naples Federico II
Colin MacKay, Journalist and Broadcaster, BBC Radio Scotland; formerly Political Editor and Lobby Correspondent, Scottish Television plc
Hector L. MacQueen, Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh, and Scottish Law Commissioner
Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Sonja Meier, Professor of Private Law and Comparative Law, and Director of the Institute of Foreign and International Private Law I, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
Ernest Metzger, Douglas Professor of Civil Law, University of Glasgow
Tetyana Nesterchuk, Barrister, Fountain Court Chambers; judicial assistant in the UK Supreme Court (2010-11
Aidan O'Neill QC, Matrix Chambers, London
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Reed, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Kenneth G. C. Reid, Professor of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh
O.F. Robinson, Douglas Professor Emeritus of Civil Law, University of Glasgow
Martin Schermaier, Professor of Private Law and Roman Law, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn
Helen Scott, Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law, University of Cape Town
Boudewijn Sirks, Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford
William Swadling, Reader in the Law of Property, University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College
Joe Thomson, formerly Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission
Stefan Vogenauer, Professor of Comparative Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Laurens Winkel, Professor of Legal History, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Joseph Georg Wolf, Professor Emeritus of Roman and Civil Law, University of Freiburg in Breisgau
Reinhard Zimmermann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg