John Eekelaar

John Eekelaar

John Eekelaar (born 2 July 1942) is a law professor and an expert in family law. He currently teaches at Pembroke College, the University of Oxford, where he is Senior Tutor.

Eekelaar was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and earned his LL.B. from the University of London in 1963, and gained his B.C.L. and M.A. from the University of Oxford in 1965 and 1967 respectively.

Eekelaar held a Rhodes Scholarship from 1963 to 1965, and was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship in 1965. He was called to the Bar in 1968 at the Inner Temple. Eekelaar has been a Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College since 1965; he held a CUF Lecturership from 1966 to 1991, and has been Reader in Law since 1991.

He was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy in July 2001.

Eekelaar lectures in Constitutional and Administrative Law, Introduction to Law, Jurisprudence, Socio-Legal Studies and Tort. He is best known, however, for his lectures in Family Law — a field in which he is considered a world expert. Fact|date=February 2008

Eekelaar married Pia Lewis in 1978 and has 2 daughters: Louise and Catherine.

Recent publications

*cite journal|last=Maclean|first=Mavis|coauthors=and John Eekelaar|month=July|year=2005|title=The significance of marriage: contrasts between white British and ethnic minority groups in England|journal=Law & Policy|volume=27|issue=3|pages=379–398|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9930.2005.00204.x
*cite journal|last=Eekelaar|first=John|month=January|year=2005|title=Shared income after divorce: a step too far|journal=Law Quarterly Review|volume=121|pages=1–4|id=ISSN|0023-933X
*cite journal|last=Eekelaar|first=John|month=August|year=2004|title=Children between cultures|journal=International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family|volume=18|issue=2|pages=178–194|doi=10.1093/lawfam/18.2.178


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