Lord [Andrew] Burrows

Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

Formerly Professor of the Law of England, University of Oxford

KC (Hon), LLM, MA, DCL, FBA

Distinguished Fellow since 2023

Andrew Burrows was a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls before taking up his appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in June 2020. He is the first person to have been appointed direct from academia to the highest court in the UK. His major projects at college included the novel idea of restating areas of English law in which he was assisted by an advisory group of academics, judges and practitioners. This led to the publication by OUP of A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment and A Restatement of the English Law of Contract. In addition to producing new editions of his works on English private law (including a fourth edition of Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract and Equitable Wrongs) and publishing many articles on contract, tort and unjust enrichment, in his years as SRF he wrote extensively on statute law, culminating in his Hamlyn Lectures in 2017 entitled Thinking about Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement (CUP, 2018). He also led the Oxford-Burma/Myanmar law programme and taught an intensive course at Yangon University. He was President of the Society of Legal Scholars (2015-16), was awarded a DCL in 2014, and in 2015 was made an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College.

Background

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (2010 to 2020) and Professor of the Law of England, University of Oxford
Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow, St Hugh’s College (from 1999 to 2010)
Law Commissioner for England and Wales; Professor of English Law, University College, London (from 1994 to 1999)
CUF Lecturer in Law and Tutorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (from 1986 to 1994)
Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester (from 1981 to 1986)
Postgraduate, Harvard Law School, Harvard, USA (from 1980 to 1981)
Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, Merton College, Oxford (from 1979 to 1980)
Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 1975 to 1979)

Research Interests

Law of unjust enrichment and restitution
Law of contract
Law of obligations
Law reform
Statute law

Selected publications

The Relationship between Common Law and Statute in the Law of Obligations (2012) 128 LQR 232
A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment (assisted by an Advisory Group) (2012, OUP)
Lord Hoffmann and Remoteness in Contract in The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (eds Davies and Pila, 2015) 251-267
A Restatement of the English Law of Contract (assisted by an Advisory Group) (1st edn, 2016; 2nd edn, forthcoming, OUP)
‘At the Expense of the Claimant’: a Fresh Look [2017] RLR 167
Thinking about Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement (2017 Hamlyn Lectures, 2018, CUP)
A New Dawn for the Law of Illegality in Illegality after Patel v Mirza (eds Bogg and Green, 2018) 23-38
In Defence of Unjust Enrichment [2019] CLJ 521
Remedies for Torts, Breach of Contract and Equitable Wrongs (4th edn, 2019, OUP)
Publications (External Link)

Other professional memberships and roles

President of the Society of Legal Scholars (from 2015 to 2016)
Vice-President of the Society of Legal Scholars
(from 2014 to 2015)
Chair of the British Board of Film Classification’s Video Appeals Committee (from 2011 to 2019)
Member of the Morgan Stanley/Daily Telegraph 'Great Britons' Public Life Judging Panel (from 2006 to 2008)
Chair of the Islip Sports Association (from 2006)
Deputy High Court Judge (from 2007 to 2020)
Editorial Board, University of Queensland Law Journal (from 2004)
Member, Judicial Studies Board (from 2001 to 2003)
Lecturer, Judicial Studies Board Civil Continuation Course (from 2000 to 2009)
Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple (from 2000)
Recorder (from 1998 to 2020)
Ogden Working Party (from 1997 to 2019)
Advisory Group, Hungarian Civil Code (from 1999 to 2002)
Chair, Wildlife Conservation Trust (from 1994 to 2020)
Editorial Board, Tort Law Review (from 1993)
Specialist Legal Consultant, New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (from 1991 to 1993)
Door Tenant at Fountain Court Chambers (from 1989 to 2020)
Called to the Bar (1985)
Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education (from 1983 to 1985)

Research awards and grants

Harkness Fellow (from 1980 to 1981).
Martin Wronker Prize for the best result in Law Finals (1978).

Professor Tom Bridgeland

Professor of Mathematics, University of Sheffield

BA (Hons), PhD, FRS

Quondam Fellow since 2013

Tom Bridgeland has been working with homological techniques in algebraic geometry. He has completed his project with Ivan Smith relating quadratic differentials to stability conditions on certain three-dimensional Calabi-Yau categories. He is now studying derived categories of complex symplectic manifolds.

Link to Website

Background

Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2013)
Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011 to 2013)
University Reader and Royal Society Research Fellow (until 2006), then Professor of Mathematics, Sheffield University (from 2004 to 2010)
EPSRC Research Assistant (to 2000), then EPSRC Research Fellow (to 2003) and, finally, Royal Society Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh (from 1998 to 2004)
Postgraduate, Edinburgh University (from 1995 to 1998)
Undergraduate, Christ’s College, Cambridge (from 1991 to 1995)

Research Interests

Algebraic geometry and its connections with string theory and mirror symmetry
Focussing more specifically on properties of derived categories of coherent sheaves on algebraic varieties

Selected publications

(with P. Aspinwall et al.), Dirichlet Branes and Mirror Symmetry, Clay Mathematics Monographs (2009), 684pp
'Stability Conditions and Kleinian Singularities', to appear, International Math. Research Notices (2009)
'Spaces of Stability Conditions', Algebraic Geometry–Seattle 2005. Part 1, 1–21, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 80, Part 1, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI. (2009)
'Stability Conditions on K3 Surfaces', Duke Math. J., 141 (2008), no. 2, 241-91
'Stability Conditions on Triangulated Categories', Ann. of Math. (2) 166 (2007), no. 2, 317–45
Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves, International Congress of Mathematicians, vol. II, Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich (2006), 563-82
(with S. Iyengar), 'A Criterion for Regularity of Local Rings', C. R. Math. Acad. Sci., Paris 342 (2006), no. 10, 723-6
'Stability Conditions on a Non-Compact Calabi-Yau Threefold', Comm. Math. Phys., 266 (2006), no. 3, 715-33
'T-structures on Some Local Calabi-Yau Varieties', J. of Algebra, 289 (2005), 453-83
'Flops and Derived Categories', Invent. Math., 147 (2002), 613-32
(with Antony Maciocia), 'Fourier-Mukai Transforms for K3 and Elliptic Fibrations', J. Alg. Geom., 11 (2002), 629-57
(with Alastair King and Miles Reid), 'The McKay Correspondence as an Equivalence of Derived Categories', J. Amer. Math. Soc., 14 3 (2001) 535-54
(with Antony Maciocia), 'Complex Surfaces with Equivalent Derived Categories', Math. Zeit., 236 4 (2001), 677-97
'Equivalences of derived categories and Fourier-Mukai transforms', Bull. Lond. Math. Soc., 31 1 (1999), 25-34
'Fourier-Mukai Transforms for Ellptic Surfaces', J. reine ang. math. 498 (1998), 115-133

Research awards and grants

Cambridge University Adams Prize (2007).
Invited speaker at Inernational Congress of Mathematics (2006).
Whittemore Lecturer at Yale (2006).
Edinburgh Mathematical Society Whittaker Prize (2005).
London Mathematical Society Berwick Prize (2003).

Professor Richard Ericson

BA, MA, PhD, DLitt

University Academic Fellow from 2003 to 2004

20 September 1948 - 2 October 2007

Professor Sir Rees Davies

BA, DPhil

Emeritus Fellow from 2004 to 2005

6 August 1938 - 16 May 2005

Professor Malcolm Bowie

MA, MA, DPhil

University Academic Fellow from 1992 to 2002

5 May 1943 - 28 January 2007

Background

FBA 1993
UEA 1967-69. Cambridge, 1969-76 (Clare); Prof. London, 1976-92 (QMC).
Master, Christ's College, 2002-07.

Richard Harrison

Emeritus Fellow from 1991 to 1992

16 May 1935 - 9 September 1992

The Revd. Professor John McManners

BA, DLitt

Honorary Fellow from 2001 to 2006

25 December 1916 - 4 November 2006

Professor Susan Hurley

Junior Research Fellow from 1981 to 1984; Two-Year Fellow from 2000 to 2002; Fifty-Pound Fellow from 2003 to 2007

16 September 1954 - 16 August 2007

Background

Professor of Philosophy, Bristol University (2006 to 2007)
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (2003 to 2007)
Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (2000 to 2002)
Social Science Research Fellowship, Nuffield Foundation (1997 to 1998)
Professor of Political and Ethical Theory, University of Warwick (1994 to 2006)
Senior Research Reader, British Academy (1990 to 1992)
Humanities Council Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (1988)
Lecturer, Harvard Law School (1987)
Meyer Visiting Professor, New York University (1987)
Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Philosophy, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (1985 to 1994)
Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley (1984)
Junior Research Fellow, and first woman Fellow, All Souls College (1981 to 1984)
Doctorate (DPhil) Thesis: Practical Reason: Deliberation, Coherence, Disagreement (1981 to 1984)
Postgraduate (BPhil) at St Catherine's College, Oxford (1977 to 1980)
Undergraduate, Princeton University (1972 to 1976)

Selected publications

Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity, a book about rationality (New York/ Oxford University Press, 1989), 462 pages. Selected by the journal Choice as one of its outstanding academic books of 1990-91. Paperback published 1992.
Foundations of Decision Theory: Issues and Advances (Oxford, Blackwell/ 1991), 344 pages, co-edited with Dr. M. O. L. Bacharach. Also co-author of editors' Introduction to this volume, Issues and Advances in the Foundations of Decision Theory , pp. 1-38; I was the primary author of the material on decision theory (as opposed to game theory) in this Introduction. Paperback published 1993.
On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993 (New York, Basic Books/ 1993), co-edited with Stephen Shute with profits to Amnesty International. Co-author of editors' Introduction, pp. 2-18. Translated into Italian 1995.
Consciousness in Action (Cambridge/ Harvard University Press/ 1998), British Academy Senior Research Readership (1990-92) project, 506 pages. Essays on the unity of consciousness and the interdependence of perception and action, which pursue issues raised by work of Kant and Wittgenstein in the context of contemporary neuropsychology.
Justice, Luck, and Knowledge (Harvard University Press, 2005) Exairunes and criticizes views that link justice to luck and responsibility in certain ways, and suggests an account of distributive justice that does not depend on such links.

Dr Simon Walker

Extraordinary Research Fellow from 1999 to 2004

24 January 1958 - 26 February 2004

Robert Shackleton

University Academic Fellow from 1979 to 1986

1919 - 1986

Background

Served Royal Signlas, 1940-45. Liberal candidate, Blackburn, 1945.

Trinity Coll., 1946-49; Fellow BNC, 1946-79; Bodley's Librarian, 1966-79; Foch chair 1979-86.

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