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Robert Stevens
22nd Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
In office
1993–2001
Preceded byRoger Bannister
Succeeded byGiles Henderson
5th Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
In office
1987–1991
Preceded byRobert Sinsheimer
Succeeded byKarl Pister
10th President of Haverford College
In office
1978–1987
Preceded byJohn Royston Coleman
Succeeded byTom G. Kessinger
Personal details
Born(1933-06-08)8 June 1933
Died30 January 2021(2021-01-30) (aged 87)
Oxford
NationalityBritish
RelativesRobin Stevens (daughter)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineProcedural law
Institutions

Robert Bocking Stevens (8 June 1933 – 30 January 2021) was a British lawyer and academic.

Life

Stevens was educated at Oakham School and then at Keble College, Oxford, where he obtained his BA and BCL degrees. He was called to the bar in 1956 as a member of Gray's Inn. In 1958, he was awarded an LLM from Yale University. He then became a member of staff there, rising from assistant professor (1959–61) to associate professor (1961–65) and finally to professor (1965–76). He was then Provost of Tulane University, Louisiana from 1976 to 1978, when he became President of Haverford College, Pennsylvania, leaving there in 1987 to become Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz. He left Santa Cruz in 1991, and in 1993 returned to England to take up office as Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1994 to 2001.

He left the college in 2001, and was appointed an Honorary Fellow. Since 2001, he was a senior research fellow at the Constitution Unit of University College London.

His writings include The Restrictive Practices Court (1965), In Search of Justice (1968), Welfare Medicine in America (1974), The American Law School (1983) and The English Judges (2002).

His children with his first wife, Rosemary A. Stevens, are Carey Stevens and Richard Stevens. He was married to Kathie Booth Stevens (born 16 December 1948), a retired educator, art historian, and magistrate, until his death at Oxford in January 2021. Their daughter is the children's novelist Robin Stevens.

References

  1. "Birthdays today". The Telegraph. 8 June 2011. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Retrieved 1 June 2014. Dr Robert Stevens, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, 1993–2001, 78
  2. "Robert Bocking Stevens, fifth UCSC chancellor, dies at age 87". UC Santa Cruz. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  3. ^ "Stevens, Dr Robert Bocking". Who's Who 2009. Oxford University Press. December 2008. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
  4. Lotozo, Eils (30 January 2021). "Robert Bocking Stevens, 1933-2021". Haverford College Magazine.
  5. Stevens, Robin (2016). Mistletoe and Murder. London: Penguin. p. 351. ISBN 9780141369723.
Academic offices
Preceded byJohn Royston Coleman 10th President of Haverford College
1978 - 1987
Succeeded byTom G. Kessinger
Preceded byRobert Sinsheimer 5th Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz
1987 – 1991
Succeeded byKarl Pister
Preceded byRoger Bannister 22nd Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
1993 - 2001
Succeeded byGiles Henderson

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Chancellors of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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