By Lesley Dingle and Daniel Bates
Professor William Rodolph Cornish 1937 - 2022
Biography
- 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