Louise Gullifer

Louise Gullifer QC (Hon) FBA is a British legal academic and barrister who is Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.[2] She is the first woman to hold this professorship and was formerly Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Oxford.[3][4] She is known for her contributions to English law both as an academic, and for representing the United Kingdom as delegate to United Nations Commission on International Trade Law and UNIDROIT.[5] She is a Bencher of Gray's Inn.[6]

Louise Gullifer

QC (Hon) FBA
Born
Louise Edwards[1]
OccupationRouse Ball Professor of English Law
Known forGoode and Gullifer on Legal Problems of Credit and Security
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineFinancial law, Commercial law
InstitutionsGonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Education and career

Gullifer decided to pursue a career as a barrister from the age of fourteen, after watching a television programme about the English Bar.[7] She graduated with a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence in 1982 and subsequently a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1983, both from Hertford College, Oxford.[8] Upon graduation, she practiced law as a barrister for six years.[7] In 1991, she took up an opportunity to assist Roy Goode in setting up a commercial law course at Oxford, following which she was offered a permanent teaching position.[7] She was a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1994 to 1997.[9]

In 2000, she took up a fellowship at Harris Manchester College, Oxford and was appointed Professor of Commercial Law. In 2017, she was appointed to a temporary professorship in international commercial law at Radboud University Nijmegen.[10] She was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.[6] On 1 October 2019, she became the first woman to be elected to the Rouse Ball Professorship of English Law, following the retirement of her predecessor David Feldman.[11] She is the first woman to hold this professorship.[3] She has held visiting professorships at the National University of Singapore, City University of Hong Kong, Leiden University, and Paris-Sorbonne University.[12]

References
  1. "3VB". www.3vb.com. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  2. "Professor Louise Gullifer | Faculty of Law". www.law.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  3. Sheekey, Niall. "HMC Fellow appointed to Cambridge Chair | Harris Manchester College". Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  4. "Expert Resume of Professor Louise Gullifer QC (hon) FBA". Panel of Recognised International Market Experts in Finance. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  5. "Lord Chancellor welcomes promotion of new silks". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2020-11-01. Professor Louise Gullifer, Director of the Commercial Law Centre at Harris Manchester College, Oxford and also Director of the Secured Transaction Law Reform Project. As well as being Professor of Commercial Law at Oxford, she is Professor of International Commercial Law at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She is part of the UK delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group VI and the UNIDROIT committee of Governmental Experts on the MAC Protocol to the Cape Town Convention. She has made a major contribution to the law of England and Wales in terms of the breadth of her work both within academia and outside.
  6. "Professor Louise Gullifer FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  7. "Interview: Louise Gullifer, Professor of Commercial Law at Oxford University". lawyr.it. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  8. "Professor Louise Gullifer QC (Hons Causa) appointed to the Rouse Ball Professorship of English Law". Hertford College | University of Oxford. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  9. "Professor Louise Gullifer QC". www.3vb.com. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  10. "Louise Gullifer appointed Professor of International Commercial Law at Radboud University School of Law". Oxford Law Faculty. 2016-10-04. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  11. "Louise Gullifer elected to Rouse Ball Professorship of English Law | Faculty of Law". www.law.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  12. "Louise Gullifer". law.nus.edu.sg. Archived from the original on 2020-11-01. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
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