Jeremy Christian Nicholas Horder (born 25 February 1962) is Professor of Criminal Law and former Head of Department at the

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. From 2005 - 2010 he served as Law Commissioner for England and Wales. Horder graduated from the

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in 1984 with an LLB. He then studied Civil Law at the

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, completing his DPhil while a Fellow of Jesus College. His thesis concerned homicide law from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. Horder was the Chairman of Oxford's Faculty of Law between 1998 and 2000. He is an Honorary Bencher of

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and former Edmund Davies Professor of Criminal Law at

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. He holds an Honorary LLD from the University of Hull. In 2014 he was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

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