Michael Zander | |
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 Professor Michael Zander, 1977 | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Awards | QC |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Law |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
Michael Zander,KC,FBA, (born 16 November 1932[1] inBerlin) is a British legal scholar. He is Professor Emeritus of Law at theLondon School of Economics and Political Science.[2] Zander was a member of theRoyal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991–1993).[3] He is currently a member of the Home Office's PACE Strategy Board.[4]
Zander was born in Berlin, Germany in 1932 and is the son of lawyer and scholarWalter Zander and Margarete (Gretl) Magnus. In 1937, when he was four years old, the family emigrated from Germany to England because of their Jewish background. His brother is the conductorBenjamin Zander.[5]
After attending theRoyal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1946 to 1951, he won an Open Exhibition in English atJesus College, Cambridge, where he took a Double First Honours Degree in Law, then obtained a First Class in the LLB and was awarded the Whewell Scholarship in International Law. Zander then took an LLM atHarvard University.[6]
Zander worked with the law firm ofSullivan & Cromwell on Wall Street for a year before returning to the United Kingdom in 1959. He became a solicitors’ articled clerk withAshurst Morris Crisp and became a qualified solicitor in 1962.[7] During hisclerkship he was legal adviser toTony Benn in his battle toremain in the House of Commons.[8]
In 1963 Zander joined theLSE Law Department. He was appointed to a Chair in 1977; he was Convenor (Head) of the Law Department from 1984 to 1988 and again in 1997–98. He was appointed an HonoraryQueen's Counsel in 1997 and was elected a Senior Fellow of theBritish Academy in 2005. Professor Zander retired from the LSE in 1998 but twenty-five years later he was still active writing and publishing articles and new editions of his books.[3]
From 1963 to 1988, he was Legal Correspondent ofThe Guardian newspaper, for which he wrote more than 1,400 articles.[9]
