Jeffrey Jowell QC - New Director for the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law
31 Aug 10
The British Institute of International and Comparative Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC as the Director of the new Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, which is established within the Institute. Jeffrey is a leading authority on public law.
He has successfully combined a very distinguished academic career with a legal practice at Blackstone Chambers. He has assisted the drafting of a number of national constitutions. Previously the Dean of UCL’s Faculty of Law, he has been awarded a number of honorary degrees and awards including Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple, Honorary Fellow of UCL and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cape Town, Athens, RItsumeikan and Paris. He is the UK representative on the Council of Europe’s prestigious Commission for Democracy through Law ("The Venice Commission"), was a member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and was recently listed in The Times’ inaugural ‘Law 100: the UK's most powerful lawyers’ list.
Full details are given in the BIICL press release