Born 1965 in Glasgow | School: Glasgow Academy (1970-1982)

Exhibitioner, then Honorary Senior Scholar, New College, Oxford (1983-1987)

BA in law first class (1986) | BCL first class and winner of the Vinerian Scholarship (1987) | DPhil (1995)

Called to the English Bar (1988) | Bencher, Inner Temple (2003- ) | Fellow, British Academy (2013- )

Examination Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-1991)

Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford (1991-1996)

Reader in Legal Philosophy, University of London based at King's College London (1996-2000)

Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford and Fellow of University College, Oxford (2000-2016)

Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford with University title of Professor (2016- )

Visiting positions: Columbia (2000) | Yale (2002, 2003, 2005) | ANU (2003, 2006, 2008) | Texas (2006) | Princeton (2008) | Auckland (2010) | Cornell (2015) | Luzern (2017)

Past doctoral students include: Scott Hershovitz (2001) | Jonathan Garton (2002) | Brendan McGurk (2005) | Shlomit Wallerstein (2005) | Michelle Dempsey (2007) | Amit Pundik (2008) | François Tanguay-Renaud (2008) | Prince Saprai (2009) | Maris Köpcke (2009) | Luìs Duarte D'Almeida (2011) | James Edwards (2011) | David Winterton (2011) | Matthew Shapiro (2012) | Shivprasad Swaminathan (2013) | Jonas-Sébastien Beaudry (2013) | Raquel Barradas de Freitas (2014) | Margreet Luth-Morgan (2015) | Abdallah Salam (2015) | Alberto Pino Emhart (2015) | Peter Chau (2015) | Lars Christie (2016) | Sylvia Rich (2016) | Maggie O'Brien (2016) | Robert Mullins (2017) | Guy Sela (2017) | Jonathan Turner (2018) | Matthew Oliver (2018)