Mrs Cherry Hopkins

By John Magyar and Daniel Bates

Charity Ann (Cherry) Hopkins, OBE, LLB

• Born: 4 September 1941 in Salisbury, Wiltshire

Education

• School of St Helen and St Katharine, Abingdon, 1947–54
• Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, 1954–58
• Girton College, Cambridge, 1959–63 (BA 1962, LL B 1963)
  • Law Qualifying Examination I, 1960, Class I
  • Law Tripos Part I, 1961, Class I*, George Long Prize for Roman Law
  • Law Tripos Part II, 1962, Class I*
  • LL B Examination, 1963, Class I, Whewell Scholarship in International Law
  • Research Student, 1963–64
• Called to the Bar by Gray's Inn, 1965
  • Bar Final Examination, Class I, Certificate of Honour and Public International Law Prize

Postitions held

• Girton College, Cambridge
  • Research Fellow, 1964–66
  • College Lecturer in Law and Official Fellow, 1966–71 and 1989¬¬–2007
  • Tutor, 1966 –71 and 1990–2000
  • Director of Studies in Law, 1969–71 and (for Parts IB and IT) 2000–07
  • Acting Director of Studies in Law, Michaelmas Terms 1989 & 1992, Easter Term 1993, Michaelmas Terms 1995 and 1998
  • Acting Admissions Tutor, Lent Terms 1992 and 1993
  • Secretary to the Council, Augmented Council, Governing Body, and Academic Policy Committee, 1992–2007
• University of Cambridge Faculty of Law:
  • Affiliated Lecturer 1990–2000
  • Examiner or Assessor for the Law Tripos, 1966–70 and 1972–2007
• University of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education:
  • Lecturer in Contract for London External LL B Revision Course 1989–2008 and A-Level Teachers' Course 1996–2003
• Supervisor for various Cambridge Colleges 1962–73 and 1978–2008
• Assistant Editor, The British Year Book of International Law, 1974–2000
• Note Editor, The Cambridge Law Journal, 1991–2006
  • Convening Note Editor, 1996–2006
• Ethical Committee member, MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Unit, 1991–98
• Governor, St Helen’s School, Northwood, 1967–71
• Governor, Queen Anne’s School, Caversham, 1970–2001
• Bishop's Visitor for the Diocese of Ely, 2000–10
• Appointed OBE for services to International Law, 1998

Publications

• (with Clive Parry) An Index of British Treaties 1101-1968 (HMSO, 1970, 3 volumes)
• (as Assistant Editor) The British Year Book of International Law volumes 47 (1974/5) to 70 (1999)
• (as Convening Note Editor) ‘Case and Comment’ section of The Cambridge Law Journal volumes 55 (1996) - 65 (2006)
• Case notes in The Cambridge Law Journal:
  • volume 21 (1963), page 174
  • volume 22 (1964), page 180
  • volume 28 (1970), pages 4 and 15
  • volume 48 (1989), page 368
  • volume 49 (1990), pages 21, 214 and 392
  • volume 50 (1991), page 27
  • volume 51 (1992), page 12
  • volume 52 (1993), page 199
  • volume 53 (1994), pages 9 and 428
  • volume 54 (1995), pages 20 and 491
  • volume 55 (1996), page 425
  • volume 57 (1998), page 444
  • volume 59 (2000), page 438
  • volume 60 (2001), page 458
  • volume 61 (2002), pages 257 and 522
  • volume 62 (2003), page 559
  • volume 64 (2005), page 546
• Section on the Law of Torts at Cambridge in The Oxbridge Guide to Law annually 1996–2004
• Book reviews in The British Year Book of International Law, The Cambridge Law Journal and Professional Negligence