Andrew Tettenborn

Andrew Tettenborn is a British legal academic and writer who is a professor of law at Swansea University's Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, specialising in commercial law and the common law.

Andrew Tettenborn
OccupationProfessor
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineCommercial law and the common law
InstitutionsSwansea University's Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law

Education

Tettenborn completed an MA and an LLB at the University of Cambridge.[1][2] At Cambridge, he attended Peterhouse and won academic prizes in law.[3]

Career

Prior to 1996, he was a lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College. In 1996, he left Cambridge and was appointed Bracton Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, and in 2010 Tettenborn left Exeter to join Swansea's Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. He previously taught at the Universities of Nottingham, Melbourne, Connecticut and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.[4][1][2]

Political commentary

In addition to academic work, he is politically active. He is a member of the Free Speech Union and was UKIP's candidate in the 2001 general election for the Bath constituency, coming last of five candidates with 708 votes (1.5%).[5][6][7] In 2021, he wrote in The Times in defence of then Justice Secretary Dominic Raab's plan to remove the European Convention of Human Rights from UK law and replace it with a British Bill of Rights, which would provide the same protections, saying it would provide more democratic legitimacy than jurisprudence emanating from the European Court of Human Rights and human rights academics.[8]

He signed an open letter in The Sunday Times in support of Kathleen Stock in 2021, following criticism from students and academics regarding her being awarded an OBE while holding gender critical views.[9] He also writes for The Spectator and The Critic.[10][11]

In 2022, following the capture by Russian forces of British-born Ukrainian soldiers Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tettenborn commented that the statement Aslin and Pinner were fighting illegally in the country – by Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis and Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry – could be used by Russian forces to justify an atrocity against the soldiers. Tettenborn said that it was incorrect as a matter of international law to say the two were fighting in the country illegally. Later, the Prime Minister's spokesperson said that the British government does not consider the pair to have being fighting illegally in the war.[12][13]

Publications

Tettenborn is the co-editor of Clerk & Lindsell on Torts.[14] He is also on the editorial boards of Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of International Maritime Law.[1]

References
  1. "Professor Andrew Tettenborn - Swansea University". Swansea University. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  2. "Chairs". Times Higher Education. 31 May 1996. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  3. "Awards and Elections at Cambridge University". The Times. 12 August 1976. p. 14.
  4. "Professor Andrew Tettenborn". International Maritime and Commercial Law. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  5. "Submission to the Scottish Parliament on the Hate Crime Bill". Free Speech Union. 7 July 2020.
  6. "BBC NEWS | VOTE 2001 | RESULTS & CONSTITUENCIES | Bath". BBC News. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  7. "Complete list of General Election candidates". The Telegraph. 25 April 2005. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  8. Tettenborn, Andrew (16 December 2021). "Raab's human rights plan offers significant advantages". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  9. "Letters to the Editor: U-turn ahead on vaccine passports". The Sunday Times. 24 January 2021. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  10. "Andrew Tettenborn | The Spectator columnists & writers". The Spectator. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  11. "Andrew Tettenborn". The Critic. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  12. Wood, Poppy (19 April 2022). "MPs should be careful not to send captured British fighters 'to the firing squad', expert warns". i. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  13. Duffy, Nick; Duggan, Joe (19 April 2022). "No 10 says captured Britons should be protected as prisoners of war, contradicting minister". i. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  14. "Clerk & Lindsell on Torts - Hardback and Paperback". Sweet & Maxwell. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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