Timothy Endicott (born 9 July 1960) is a Canadian legal scholar and philosopher specializing in constitutional law and language and law. He is the Vinerian Professor of English Law at the

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, and a fellow of

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. From October 2007 to September 2015, he served for two terms as the first dean of the Oxford Faculty of Law. He was named to the Vinerian Professorship of English Law in 2020.

Education

After attending

Upper Canada College Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent day and boarding school for boys in Toronto, Ontario, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The college is widely described as Canada's most prestigious preparatory school, and ha ...

, Endicott studied English and Classics at

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, where he graduated in 1983 with an A.B., ''

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''. He then obtained a MPhil in Comparative Philology at

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in 1985 as a

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. In 1988, he obtained an LL.B. from the

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and then returned to Oxford to obtain a

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in law in 1997.

Works include

Books

*'' Vagueness in Law'' (Oxford University Press 2000). *''Properties of Law: Essays in Honour of Jim Harris'', with Joshua Getzler and Edwin Peel (Oxford University Press 2006) *''Administrative Law,'' 4th edition (Oxford University Press 2018)

Articles

Law and Language

Lectures

Interpretation and the Rule of Law

References

External links

Curriculum Vitae
Living people Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Upper Canada College alumni Harvard University alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford University of Toronto alumni Canadian legal scholars Christian philosophers Legal scholars of the University of Oxford 1960 births Philosophers of law {{Christian-philosopher-stub