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Tony Prosser elected Fellow of the British Academy

18 July 2014

Professor Tony Prosser of the University of Bristol Law School has achieved the rare distinction of being elected Fellow of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Tony Prosser of the University of Bristol Law School has achieved the rare distinction of being elected Fellow of the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

The British Academy elected 42 new Fellows at its Annual General Meeting on 17 July 2014.  Each of them is a highly distinguished academic, recognised for his or her outstanding research.  The Fellows represent the full range of the Academy's subject areas from early literature to law.

Tony Prosser was appointed Professor of Public Law at the University of Bristol in 2002, having previously been John Millar Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and having taught at the Universities of Sheffield and Hull.  He was also a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence.

His main research interests are in Public Law relating to economic management, privatisation and regulation.  His most recent books are The Regulatory Enterprise (OUP 2010), examining social and economic regulatory institutions, and The Economic Constitution(OUP 2014) analysing the role of constitutions in economic management.

He was also a participant in a major European project on Reflexive Governance.  His teaching interests are in the areas of law and government, law and the economy, and social and legal theory.  He is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Professor Prosser said: "I am, of course, absolutely delighted by this great honour.  I am also most grateful for the generous support given to research by the University of Bristol, and for so much help and encouragement from colleagues here and in the other universities in which I have worked.  I have been very fortunate to have been a member of such stimulating and supportive institutions."
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