Bill Cornish
William Rodolph Cornish
Early life and education
Born in South Australia on 9 August 1937,[1] Cornish graduated with a law degree at the University of Adelaide in 1960 and then came to England to carry out postgraduate study; he completed a Bachelor of Civil Law degree at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1962.[2]
Career
In 1962, Cornish was appointed Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn the following year. He moved from the LSE to Queen Mary College, London, in 1969 to be Reader of Law, but returned to the LSE in 1970 when he was appointed Professor of English Law. In 1990, he became Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1995 was appointed Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and served in that chair until retiring in 2004. He was also President of Magdalene College from 1998 to 2001 and Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies in the university's Faculty of Law from 1991 to 1994.[2][3]
Honours and awards
Cornish is the subject of a
Personal life and death
Cornish died in Cambridge, England on 8 January 2022, at the age of 84.[7]
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Archived from the originalon 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ a b c d David Vaver and Lionel Bently (eds.), Intellectual Property in the New Millennium: Essays in Honour of William R. Cornish (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. xii, 289.
- ^ a b c "Cornish, Prof. William Rodolph" Archived 25 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine, Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ The London Gazette,15 April 1997 (issue 54736), p. 4475.
- ^ "Professor William Cornish FBA", The British Academy. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette,15 June 2013 (issue 60534), p. 3.
- ^ "Cornish, Professor WR (Bill)". The Times. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.