David Feldman (legal scholar)

This article is about the British legal academic and judge. For other uses, see David Feldman (disambiguation).

Professor
David Feldman
KC (Hon) FBA FRSA
Feldman in conversation with Robert Reed, Lord Reed at the Cranworth Law Society Annual Dinner 2018
Born
David John Feldman

Brighton and Hove, East Sussex
OccupationEmeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law
Known forThe Cambridge Companion to Public Law
Law in Politics, Politics in Law
The Law Relating to Entry, Search and Seizure
Civil Liberties and Human Rights in England and Wales[2]
SpouseJill Feldman[1]
Academic background
Alma materExeter College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineJurisprudence, legal system, public law, constitutional and administrative law
InstitutionsDowning College, Cambridge
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Australian National University
Main interestsConstitutionalism, law, politics and public administration

David John Feldman KC (Hon) FBA FRSA (/fɛldmən/) is a British legal academic, author and former judge. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge,[3] and served as an international judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement from 2002 to 2010.[3][4] He is known for having shaped the development of civil liberties and human rights law in the United Kingdom.[5]

Feldman is an Emeritus Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, an Honorary Bencher at Lincoln's Inn and an Academic Associate at 39 Essex Chambers. He has served as Chairman of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, and as President of the Society of Legal Scholars.[3][6]

  1. ^ "Professor David Feldman, FBA". University of Bristol. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Professor David Feldman". British Academy. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018.
  3. ^ a b c "Professor David Feldman Faculty of Law". Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Decision on Dismissal" (PDF). Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 4 March 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Honorary degrees awarded at the University of Bristol – Thursday, 18 July". University of Bristol. University of Bristol. 18 July 2013. Archived from the original on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2018. Over 80 scholarly publications have been published since 2000, many of which have helped to shape the development of civil liberties and human rights law.
  6. ^ "Former Officers of the Society". Society of Legal Scholars. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018.