After graduating in Philosophy, Déirdre Dwyer gained a second degree in Law, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. Her monograph on The Judicial Assessment of Expert Evidence was published in 2008.
Dr. Dwyer is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law, and a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. Her current research interests are in the principles of civil evidence and the origins of modern English civil procedure. She lectures in Evidence and Civil Procedure to graduate students at the University of Oxford.
Dr. Dwyer serves as the book reviews editor for the International Commentary on Evidence, as a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Evidence and Proof, and will be one of the editors of the 17th (2010) edition of Phipson on Evidence.

The Rt Hon. Sir Anthony Clarke, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice, The Court of Appeal
Dr Carla Crifò, Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester
Dr Déirdre Dwyer, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Junior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and Barrister
Dr Susan M C Gibbons, Senior Research Associate in Law, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford
Dr Katharine Grevling, Fellow and Tutor in Law at Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Master Peter Hurst, Judicial Taxing Officer of the House of Lords and of the Privy Council
The Rt Hon. Sir Robin Jacob, Lord Justice of Appeal, Honorary Fellow of the LSE, Visiting Professor of Law at Birmingham University and a Distinguished Judicial Visitor at University College London
Professor Anthony Jolowicz, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Law in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Mr Hodge M. Malek, Bencher of Gray's Inn, Recorder, Queen's Counsel
Professor Rachael Mulheron, Professor at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London
Mr Robert Musgrove, Chief Executive of the Civil Justice Council, the British Government's principal advisory body on civil justice reform
Mr Tim Parkes, Litigation Partner, Herbert Smith LLP
Council Member of the Law Society of Hong Kong
Professor John Peysner,Solicitor, Professor of Civil Justice at Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln and an Honorary Visiting Professor at City University, London
Dr Susan Prince, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Exeter
Dr Shirley Shipman, Senior Lecturer and GDL Director, Oxford Brookes University
Mr Stuart Sime, Barrister, BVC Course Director, The City Law School
Mr John Sorabji, barrister and Legal Secretary to the Master of the Rolls
Dr Magdalena Tulibacka, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford
Professor Robert Turner, Professor of Law at the University of Gloucestershire. Senior Master of the Supreme Court and the Queen's Remembrancer, 1996-2007
Professor Michael Zander, Emeritus Professor, The London School of Economics, Queen's Counsel
Professor Adrian Zuckerman, Professor of Civil Procedure an the University of Oxford, and Fellow of University College, Oxford