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Professor Christopher Forsyth was Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law in the University of Cambridge and is Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Stellenbosch. He is an Honorary Member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Articles 1–20. Emeritus Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge - Cited by 3,234 - Administrative Law - Constitutional Theory - Private International Law.
- Creating The Framework of His Beliefs
- Encounters with The Outside Academic World Then A Return to The Apartheid Fray
- Return to Cambridge and New Legal Horizons
- The Academic Ladder
- The Faculty Move
- Robinson College
- Hong Kong
- Altruism and Public Service
- UK Police Matters & Justice
- Emerging Democracies
When Christopher Forsyth left the University of Cape Town in 1981 to undertake his PhD at Gonville & Caius, destined to remain at Cambridge for the rest of his career at the age of 33 years, he joined an illustrious cohort of legal scholars who had left South Africa to escape the legal and social injustices of the National Party’s apartheid regime....
We have got ahead of ourselves slightly, as it took another eight years for his views on private international law to crystallise. After completing his LLB at Pietermaritzburg, Christopher decided that to broaden his personal and legal horizons, he needed to study abroad. Exton Burchell was influential in his choice, and having been at Cambridge hi...
Christopher Forsyth returned to Cambridge and Gonville & Caius in 1982 to undertake his PhD in which he further explored the notions on which he had been cogitating while at Cape Town. He was supervised by a fellow anti-apartheid emigrée Colin Turpin, who had left the University of Natal (Durban) in 1961 as a reaction to the Sharpeville shootings. ...
In 1988 Christopher Forsyth embarked on a university career that took him progressively up the academic ladder which he ascended steadily: lecturer 1988-2000 (12 years), Reader 2000-05 (5 years), and Professor of Public Law and Private International Law 2005-16 (11 years), and in 2016 was the inaugural Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law. Th...
During Christorpher Forsyth’s time as a lecturer, he was involved as were all other staff in the Great Move - the translocation of the Faculty and the Squire Law Library from its site in the Old Schools, which it had occupied since a previous upheaval in 1936 (when they had relocated from the Downing Street site, built with the original Squire esta...
Professor Forsyth’s long association with Robinson College, his friendship with a prominent Hong Kong philanthropist and banker with strong links to the University of Hong Kong, Sir David Li , and the establishment of the Sir David Williams chair of Public Law are an intricate mosaic of relationships, the details of which are probably known only to...
From this relationship with Sir David Li and Robinson College, there also sprang Christopher’s association with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he eventually served (2005) on the Legal Academic Advisory Board which helped establish the School of Law thereat. He continues to serve on this Board. Much later he also became associated with t...
In addition to his teaching duties, his academic tenure since 1988 is characterised by a remarkable catalogue of academic and public duties. These show the underlying caring and quiet sense of loyalty he has shown to the institutions in which he finds himself. There is an unassuming, but steely resolve to serve society in the broadest sense of the ...
One example begins early in his Lectureship, namely his long association with the Cambridgeshire police authorities - from 1989-2010. He outlined this in a fulsome answer, which is worth précising because it shows how seriously he took such work. I asked him about his interest in policing matters, and perhaps not surprisingly it harked back to his ...
Christopher Forsyth’s sense of giving his expertise and sound judgment to a wider society also extended to helping developing nations in their quest for good administration. This was particularly so, but in no way confined to Africa. He spoke of his work during 2000-17 (starting while he was Reader) when he was a member and later Manager of the Cen...
Jul 5, 2022 · The Squire Law Library and the Faculty of Law are pleased to announce that an entry for Christopher Forbes Forsyth, Emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public International Law, has been added to the Eminent Scholars Archive.
Jun 27, 2024 · In “The Provenance and Protection of Legitimate Expectations” Forsyth argued that English law should protect substantive legitimate expectations. However, he was concerned that too great an expansion of legitimate expectations could lead to incoherence and intuitive decision-making.
- Alison L. Young
- 2021
Professor of Public Law and Private International Law. Department. Slavonic Studies. Email. cff1000@cam.ac.uk. Degrees. B.Sc., LL.B. (Natal), LL.B., Ph.D. (Cantab.) Barrister at Law. Research Interests. Public law: judicial review; the judiciary.
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Dec 18, 2020 · The Ministry of Justice today announced the appointment of 116 new Queen's Counsel and 6 Honorary Queen's Counsel, which included Professor Christopher Forsyth. Christopher (Robinson College) is Emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law.
