Professor Louise Gullifer QC (Hons Causa) appointed to the Rouse Ball Professorship of English Law

15 October 2018

We are delighted to announce that Professor Louise Gullifer QC (Jurisprudence, 1979) has been appointed to the Rouse Ball Chair of English Law at the University of Cambridge. Established in 1927, this is a senior professorship in English Law for which its holders are chosen based on international recognition in their field of scholarship, as well as having an outstanding record in research and publication, strategic vision and commitment to developing their field of scholarship within the University of Cambridge, and a commitment to excellence in learning and teaching.

Louise Gullifer has been teaching at Oxford since 1991, where she is currently Professor of Commercial Law. Before that she practised at the Commercial Bar in chambers at 3 Gray’s Inn Place (now 3 Verulam Buildings). She was appointed Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa in 2018 in recognition of her ‘major contribution to the law of England and Wales in terms of the breadth of her work both within academia and outside’.

Louise is the second Hertford law alumna appointed to a Chair at Cambridge recently; Professor Alison Young (BCL Jurisprudence, 1993) was also recently appointed as Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law.