We have been very lucky to be joined by distinguished judges, lawyers and academics each year providing competitors with the benefit of their experience both during the formal and social parts of the event.
Prof. W. R. Cornish
Emeritus Herschel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Presidents of the CEEMC panel 1994-2011European Union InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge - CELSClifford Chance solicitorsOther UK or European Union universities
A director of Juris Angliae Scientia,Professor Bill Cornish originally from Adelaide, was a postgraduate at Oxford - one of the first group of British Commonwealth scholars in 1960. He was side-tracked from a return to Australia by a post in the Law Department at the LSE. Until moving to Cambridge in 1990, he spent most of his teaching life there; he went to Queen Mary College in 1968 but returned to the LSE to take up the Chair of English Law in 1970. On arriving in Cambridge, he became the first Director of the Law Faculty’s Centre for European Legal Studies. For that centre he directs a course in English and EU law, which is taught at Warsaw University and is now being extended to other law faculties in Central and Eastern Europe. Professor Cornish became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1984 and is an External Academic Member of the Max-Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Law, Munich. In 1997 he was made an Honorary Queen's Counsel.
