By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates
- 1937 May 29: Born in Sheffield
- 1955-59: Trinity College, LL.M
- 1960: Bar, Gray’s Inn
- 1960-73: HM Foreign Office
- 1960-64: Legal Advisor, London
- 1963-64: British Secondary Visiting Legal Advisor, UN, New York
- 1965-68: Legal Adviser, British Military Government, Berlin
- 1968-71: Legal Adviser, Arabian Department
- 1971: Counsellor, HM Diplomatic Service
- 1971: Legal Adviser, Accession Treaty to European Communities
- 1972-73: First Legal Counsellor, UK Permanent Representation to EC, Brussels
- 1973-present: Fellow Trinity College
- 1976-2004: Law Faculty Cambridge
- 1976-80: Alter. Rep. UK Delegation to UN Law of the Sea Conf.
- 1980-97: Lecturer
- 1997-2000: Reader
- 2000-2004: Professor of International Public Law
- 2004-present: Fellow of the British Academy
Sabbaticals etc
- 1992: Bertha Wilson Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dalhousie Law Sch
- 1995-present: Faculty Member Hauser Global Law School Program NY University
- 1996: Ganshof van der Meersch Chair, Université Libre de Bruxelles