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, LLB 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