P Craig
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Paul Philip Craig, (born 27 September 1951) is a British legal scholar, specialising in administrative and
European Union law European Union law is a system of rules operating within the member states of the European Union (EU). Since the founding of the European Coal and Steel Community following World War II, the EU has developed the aim to "promote peace, its valu ...
. He was Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2019, and is now emeritus professor.


Education and background

He was also a Fellow of
Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...
(1976–1998) and then of
St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...
. He was educated at
Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms w ...
, where he took his MA and BCL. He stayed at Worcester, and was made a Fellow in 1976. He remained a Fellow until his move to St John's in 1998.


Career

He is the author of a number of legal textbooks the most well known of which (EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials) was published in its 5th edition by Oxford University Press in September 2011. He currently teaches 5 week courses in Administrative Law and European Union Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. He also lectures in Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford, and a Masters Course at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of the
Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law, established in 2000 as the Institute for Global Legal Studies, serves as a center for instruction and research in international and comparative law. Background ...
's International Council.


Honours

In 1998, Craig was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...
(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel on 3 May 2000.


Selected works

*


External links


Paul Craig
at Oxford Law.
Paul Craig
at St John's College.


References

1951 births Living people Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Oxford University Press Delegate Scholars of administrative law English legal scholars Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford Legal scholars of the University of Oxford Honorary King's Counsel Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-academic-bio-stub