Timothy Endicott (born 9 July 1960) is a Canadian legal scholar and philosopher specializing in constitutional law and language and law. He is the
Vinerian Professor of English Law
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in the
University of Oxford
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, and Fellow of
All Souls College
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, University of Oxford.
From October 2007 to September 2015, he served for two terms as the first Dean of the
Oxford Faculty of Law. He was named to the Vinerian Professorship of English Law in 2020.
Education
After attending
Upper Canada College
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, Endicott studied English and Classics at
Harvard. He then obtained a MPhil in Comparative Philology at
Oxford University
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, and law degrees from
University of Toronto
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and Oxford.
Works include
Books
*''
Vagueness in Law'' (Oxford University Press 2000).
*''Properties of Law: Essays in Honour of Jim Harris'', with Joshua Getzler and Edwin Peel (Oxford University Press 2006)
*''Administrative Law,'' 4th edition (Oxford University Press 2018)
Articles Law and Language
Lectures Interpretation and the Rule of Law
References
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Living people
Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford
Upper Canada College alumni
Harvard University alumni
Alumni of the University of Oxford
University of Toronto alumni
Canadian legal scholars
Christian philosophers
Legal scholars of the University of Oxford
1960 births
Philosophers of law