Paul Philip Craig, (born 27 September 1951) is a British legal scholar, specialising in administrative and

European Union law European Union law is a system of Supranational union, supranational Law, laws operating within the 27 member states of the European Union (EU). It has grown over time since the 1952 founding of the European Coal and Steel Community, to promote ...

. He was Professor of English Law at the

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from 1998 to 2019, and is now

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Education and background

He was also a

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Worcester College, Oxford Worcester College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. The college was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of Sir Thomas Cookes, 2nd Baronet (1648–1701) of Norgrove, Worcestershire, whose coat of arms was ad ...

(1976–1998) and then of

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. He was educated at

, where he took his MA and BCL. He stayed at Worcester, and was made a Fellow in 1976. He remained a Fellow until his move to St John's in 1998.

Career

He is the author of a number of legal textbooks the most well known of which (''EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials'') was published in its 5th edition by Oxford University Press in September 2011. He currently teaches 5 week courses in Administrative Law and European Union Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. He also lectures in Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford, and a Masters Course at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a member of the

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's International Council.

Honours

In 1998, Craig was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He was appointed an honorary

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on 3 May 2000.

Selected works

External links

Paul Craig
at Oxford Law.
Paul Craig
at St John's College.

References

1951 births Living people Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Alumni of Worcester College, Oxford Oxford University Press people Scholars of administrative law English legal scholars Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford Legal scholars of the University of Oxford Honorary King's Counsel Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-academic-bio-stub