Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows
Andrew Burrows, Lord Burrows, QC is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Professor of the Law of England and senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His work centres on private law, and is the main editor of the compendium English Private Law, the convenor of the advisory group that produced A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment as well as textbooks on English contract law. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 2 June 2020.Career
Burrows was educated at Prescot Grammar School and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he received his MA and took the BCL. He then studied for an LL.M. degree at Harvard University. He was a lecturer at the University of Manchester from 1980 to 1986, at Lady Margaret Hall from 1986 to 1994, a visiting Professor at Bond University and research fellow at ANU in 1994, and a Law Commissioner for England and Wales from 1994 to 1999. He was then appointed as the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law at St Hugh's College, Oxford, before his present position at All Souls. From 2015 to 2016, he was President of The Society of Legal Scholars. In 2015 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College.
In private practice, Burrows is a door tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London. He has appeared in a number of court cases, and was appointed an honorary QC in 2003.
Burrows' work has proved particularly popular amongst judges, with Baroness Hale, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, commenting that "there are few, if any, legal scholars whose writings are more frequently cited in our courts".
Burrows took up appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 2 June 2020. He is the first Justice to be appointed direct out of academia.Cases
