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The Professorship of Comparative Law is a chair in law at the University of Oxford. The current holder of the chair is Lionel Smith.

The chair was founded as the Professorship of Comparative Law in 1948 and was the first chair of comparative law created in the United Kingdom. The chair is linked with a Professorial Fellowship at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 2013, the chair was renamed from Professorship of Comparative Law to Linklaters Professorship of Comparative Law "in recognition of Linklaters' support for Law in Oxford". After the funding arrangement expired at the end of 2017, the chair reverted to its original name on 1 January 2018.

List of Professors of Comparative Law

Professor of Comparative Law

• 1948 to 1964: F. H. Lawson
• 1964 to 1971: Otto Kahn-Freund
• 1971 to 1978: Barry Nicholas
• 1979 to 1999: Bernard Rudden

Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law

• 2003 to 2015: Stefan Vogenauer
• 2016 to 2017: Birke Häcker

Professor of Comparative Law

• 2018 to 2022: Birke Häcker
• 2024 to present: Lionel Smith

References

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2. "Further Particulars: Linklaters Professorship of Comparative Law" (PDF). Faculty of Law. University of Oxford. 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
3. "The Linklaters Chair in Comparative Law". University of Oxford. Faculty of Law. 21 March 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
4. "Linklaters Professorship of Comparative Law" (PDF). University of Oxford. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
5. 'LAWSON, Frederick Henry', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 June 2017
6. 'KAHN-FREUND, Sir Otto', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 June 2017
7. 'NICHOLAS, (John Keiran) Barry (Moylan)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 June 2017
8. 'RUDDEN, Prof. Bernard (Anthony)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, April 2016 accessed 19 June 2017
9. 'VOGENAUER, Prof. Stefan', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 19 June 2017
10. 'HÄCKER, Prof. Birke', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 19 June 2017
11. "Professor Birke Häcker". Brasenose College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
12. "Lionel Smith appointed Professor of Comparative Law". Faculty of Law. University of Oxford. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 6 November 2024.

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