Andrew Tettenborn is a British legal academic and writer who is a professor of law at Swansea University's

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, specialising in commercial law and the common law.

Education

Tettenborn completed an MA and an

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at the

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. At Cambridge, he attended Peterhouse and won academic prizes in law.

Career

Prior to 1996, he was a

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in law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. In 1996, he left Cambridge and was appointed Bracton Professor of Law at the

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, and in 2010 Tettenborn left Exeter to join Swansea's

. He previously taught at the Universities of

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and the

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Political commentary

In addition to academic work, he is politically active. He is a member of the Free Speech Union and was UKIP's candidate in the 2001 general election for the Bath constituency, coming last of five candidates with 708 votes (1.5%). In 2021, he wrote in ''

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'' in defence of then Justice Secretary

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's plan to remove the European Convention of Human Rights from UK law and replace it with a British Bill of Rights, which would provide the same protections, saying it would provide more democratic legitimacy than jurisprudence emanating from the European Court of Human Rights and human rights academics. He signed an open letter in ''

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'' in support of

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in 2021, following criticism from students and academics regarding her being awarded an

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while holding gender critical views. He also writes for ''

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'' and '' The Critic''. In 2022, following the capture by

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of British-born Ukrainian soldiers Aiden Aslin and

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during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tettenborn commented that the statement Aslin and Pinner were fighting illegally in the country – by Northern Ireland Secretary

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and

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Emily Thornberry – could be used by Russian forces to justify an atrocity against the soldiers. Tettenborn said that it was incorrect as a matter of

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to say the two were fighting in the country illegally. Later, the

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's spokesperson said that the

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does not consider the pair to have being fighting illegally in the war.

Publications

Tettenborn is the co-editor of ''

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''. He is also on the editorial boards of '' Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly'' and the '' Journal of International Maritime Law''.

References

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