Professor William Rodolph Cornish

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Professor William Rodolph Cornish 1937 - 2022

Born: 9 August 1937, Adelaide, Australia
1956-1960: Adelaide University LLB
1960-62: Oxford University: Wadham College
1962-68: Assist Lect LSE
1963: Bar (Grays Inn)
1968: Visiting Lecturer, University of Adelaide.
1969-70: Reader, Queen Mary College
1970-90: Professor of English Law LSE
1978: Visiting Researcher Max Planck Institute Munich
1984: Fellow of British Academy
1990-1995: Professor of Law at Cambridge
1990-95: Director CELS
1992: Started the Warsaw project
1993-94: National Academies Policy Action Group, Working Party on Intellectual Property (Chairman). NAPAG
1995-2004: Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Cambridge
1998-2001: President Magdalene College.
1997: Cambridge University LLD
1997: Honorary Fellow LSE
1998: Bencher Gray’s Inn
1997: QC
2004: Retired
2004: Honorary LLD, University of Edinburgh
2013: CMG [Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]
2018: Honorary LLD, University of Adelaide