Judith Freedman, Lady Freedman , is a British

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and academic. Freedman is the Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law and Policy at the

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and senior research fellow at

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. She was the inaugural professor of taxation law at Oxford from 2001-19. She had previously worked in the corporate tax department of Freshfields before joining the

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as a lecturer in law in 1980. She then moved to the

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(

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) with a secondment to the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies as senior research fellow in Company and Commercial Law (1989-92).

Family

She is married to Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies at

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Living people Place of birth missing (living people) British legal scholars Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Fellows of the British Academy Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Wives of knights Scholars of tax law 1953 births Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford British solicitors Academics of the University of Surrey Academics of the London School of Economics {{UK-academic-bio-stub