J C Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar
The School of Law is especially proud of the success of its now well-established post of J C Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar.
The Fund was established in honour of Professor Sir John Smith, a renowned authority in the field of English criminal law and a key figure in the establishment and development of the School of Law at the University of Nottingham. Sir John served as the Head of the School of Law from 1956 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986.
The Visiting Scholarship allows distinguished scholars to visit the School of Law and engage with both staff and students.
JC McCrudden, Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law, Queen’s University Belfast and William W Cook Global Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, was the 2012 JC Smith Trust Fund Senior Visiting Scholar of the School of Law. He spent the period of February 6 to 10, 2012 (inclusive) in residence.
During this time, Professor McCrudden led some LLM classes (human rights law as well as rights, humans and other animals) as well as a methodological lunch for Ph.D. candidates, but he also held an open-door policy for Ph.D. candidates to visit with him and discuss their research plans and progress. The highlight of the visit occurred on the final day, February 10, 2012, when Professor McCrudden led a seminar on the recently published work of AWB Simpson, Reflections on H.L.A. Hart's Concept of Law (Oxford University Press, 2011), where the book was also discussed by Professors Josh Getzler (Oxford), Leslie Green (Oxford), Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham), Michael Lobban (QMUL), W.N.R. Lucy (Manchester), Paul Roberts (Nottingham), and David Sugarman (Lancaster). These papers will be published in a special edition of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press).
Previous visitors have been:
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Professor Patricia J. Williams (Columbia Law School, New York, 2011) - For more information please click here
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Professor David Feldman (University of Cambridge, 2010)
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Professor Jonathan Simon (Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 2008)
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Professor Yoram Dinstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2007)
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Professor Allan C. Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, 2006)
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Professor Andrew Ashworth QC (University of Oxford, 2006)
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Professor Karen Knop (University of Toronto, 2004)
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Professor Joseph Weiler (New York University, 2003)
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Professor Katerina Tomasevski (University of Lund, 2001)
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Professor Adrian Zuckerman (University of Oxford, 1998)
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Professor Hazel Genn (University College, London, 1995)
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Professor Francis Reynolds (University of Oxford, 1994)
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Sir Frank Berman (Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, 1993)
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Jack Beatson (then a member of the Law Commission, 1992)
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Professor Peter Birks (University of Oxford, 1991)
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John Spencer (University of Cambridge, 1990)
These visits have proved enriching experiences for the life of the School.