Michael Zander
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Michael Zander took a Double First Honours Degree at Cambridge, obtained a First Class in the LLB and was awarded the Whewell Scholarship in International Law. He took an LLM at Harvard and worked for a year with Sullivan and Cromwell on Wall Street. He then returned to this country, qualified as a solicitor and practised for a period before joining the Department in 1963. He was appointed to a Chair in 1977. He was convener of the Department from 1984 to 1988 and again in 1997-98. He was made an Honorary QC in 1997 and was appointed a Senior Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. He retired from full-time teaching in 1998. In 1999 he gave the Hamlyn Lectures under the title The State of Justice (Sweet & Maxwell, 2000).
In 2010 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws at King's College, London. The cititation stated: 'He has devoted a long and active career to the study, teaching, practice and improvement of the law, and has made outstanding contributions in both the academic and public spheres. There is no greater authority in the fields to which he has devoted himself: criminal procedure, civil procedure, legal profession and legal services. . .The central mission of his professional life has been to make the justice system work better.
see also Michael Zander's LSE Experts page
Research interests
Professor Zander's main fields are Criminal Procedure, Civil Procedure,
Legal System, Legal Profession and Legal Services.
Since retirement Michael Zander has published new editions of three of
his books familiar to generations of law students - Cases and
Materials on the English Legal System (8th ed. 1999, 9th ed. 2003,
10th ed., 2007), The Law Making Process (5th
ed.1999, 6th ed. 2004) and The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
(4th ed. 2003, 5th ed. 2005, First Supplement 2006; 6th ed.
forthcoming 2013) which is used
extensively by practising lawyers, police officers and judges.
His response to several Governmental and other official reports are
available on the LSE website (see Reports, below)
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Michael Zander was a member of the Runciman Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991-1993). In addition to being a member of the Commission he also conceived and conducted the Commission's main research project - The Crown Court Study - the biggest study ever carried out in the English courts.
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For twenty-five years (1963-1988) he was also Legal Correspondent of The Guardian for whom he wrote over two thousand articles. He has continued to be a freelance legal journalist. He is also a frequent broadcaster on both radio and television.
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