Jonathan Cooper (lawyer)
Jonathan Paul Cooper
Cooper was openly gay and married to art historian Kevin Childs; they had been together since 1992.[2]
Life and career
Cooper was born on 22 September 1962 in
He worked as
Cooper died four days before his 59th birthday while walking with his husband in the
He received tributes from Kennedy, Geoffrey Robertson,[2] Peter Tatchell, Jayne Ozanne, Nancy Kelley, Michael Cashman,[4] and Philippe Sands.[8]
The European Human Rights Law Review published a special issue dedicated to his life's work in February 2022.[9] Around the same time, the University of Oxford’s History Faculty established a new professorship of the History of Sexualities named after Jonathan Cooper, in association with Mansfield College. The Jonathan Cooper Chair of the History of Sexualities is the first fully endowed specialist post focusing on LGBT history in the UK. It was made possible by a £4.9 million gift from Professor Peter Baldwin and Dr Lisbet Rausing, historians and Co-Founders of the Arcadia Fund.[10]
Works
- Colvin, Madeleine; Cooper, Jonathan (2009). Human Rights in the Investigation and Prosecution of Crime. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-921441-9.
References
- ^ a b "Jonathan Cooper obituary". The Times. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Bowcott, Owen (1 October 2021). "Jonathan Cooper obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "Tribute to Jonathan Cooper". binghamcentre.biicl.org. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Tributes flood in for tireless defender of LGBT+ rights after his sudden death". PinkNews. 20 September 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ Annual Report. Justice. 2003. p. 4.
- ^ "Human rights campaigner Jonathan Cooper dies". BBC News. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "South Hams anti-Brexit and human rights campaigner has died, aged 58". Dartmouth Chronicle. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ Slingo, Jemma. "Profession mourns 'brilliant' human rights barrister". Law Gazette. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "EHRLR". European Human Rights Law Review. 14 February 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ Oxford, University of. "Oxford University establishes the Jonathan Cooper Professor of the History of Sexualities". University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 March 2022.