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Cotterrell, Roger Brian Melvyn was born on November 30, 1946 in Birmingham, England. Son of Walter Leslie and Hilda Margaret Cotterrell.
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Cotterrell, Roger Brian Melvyn was born on November 30, 1946 in Birmingham, England. Son of Walter Leslie and Hilda Margaret Cotterrell.
Bachelor of Laws, U. London, 1968; Master of Laws, U. London, 1969; Master of Science, U. London, 1977; Doctor of Laws, U. London, 1988.
Lecturer law, University Leicester, England, 1969-1974;
lecturer law, Queen Mary College, U. London, 1974-1978;
senior lecturer, Queen Mary College, U. London, 1978-1985;
reader in legal theory, U. London, 1985-1990;
professor legal theory, U. London, since 1990;
head department law, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U. London, 1989-1991;
dean faculty of laws, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U. London, 1993-1996. Visiting professor, Jay H. Brown Centennial Faculty Fellow in law University Texas, Austin, 1989. George Lurcy lecturer Amherst (Massachusetts) College, 1989.
Visiting professor U. Lund, Sweden, 1996, Catholic U. Brussels, 1996, 97. Visiting lecturer U.Hong Kong, 1986-1988.
( Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic ...)
(The Politics of Jurisprudence explores what jurisprudence...)
(The Sociology of Law offers a distinctive view of contemp...)
(A detailed and critical investigation of the subject, exp...)
( This book seeks to provide a fully comprehensive and sy...)
Member Committee of Heads of University Law Schools, United Kingdom, 1993-1996. Governing coun.Queen Mary and Westfield College, U. London, 1993-1997. Member panel of experts U. London Board Stuies in Law, 1991-1996.
Member working party on higher doctorates U. London, 1992-1993. Trustee, Law and Society Association, since 1996. Member Society Public Teachers Law, Socio-Legal Studies Association (United Kingdom), International Sociological Association (research commission on sociology of law), Society Public Teachers Law (commission on libraries since 1994).
Married Ann Zillah Poyner, September 27, 1969. Children: David Roger, Linda Ann Margaret.