The Professorship of Comparative Law is a chair in law at the University of Oxford. The current holder of the chair is Lionel Smith.

The chair was founded as the Professorship of Comparative Law in 1948 and was the first chair of comparative law created in the United Kingdom. The chair is linked with a Professorial Fellowship at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 2013, the chair was renamed from Professorship of Comparative Law to Linklaters Professorship of Comparative Law "in recognition of Linklaters' support for Law in Oxford". After the funding arrangement expired at the end of 2017, the chair reverted to its original name on 1 January 2018.

List of Professors of Comparative Law

Professor of Comparative Law 1948 to 1964: F. H. Lawson'LAWSON, Frederick Henry', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 June 2017 1964 to 1971: Otto Kahn-Freund'KAHN-FREUND, Sir Otto', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 June 2017 1971 to 1978: Barry Nicholas'NICHOLAS, (John Keiran) Barry (Moylan)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 19 June 2017 1979 to 1999: Bernard Rudden'RUDDEN, Prof. Bernard (Anthony)', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, April 2016 accessed 19 June 2017

Clifford Chance Professor of Comparative Law 1999 to 2000: Basil Markesinis

Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law 2003 to 2015: Stefan Vogenauer'VOGENAUER, Prof. Stefan', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 19 June 2017 2016 to 2017: Birke Häcker'HÄCKER, Prof. Birke', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 19 June 2017

Professor of Comparative Law 2018 to 2022: Birke Häcker 2024 to present: Lionel Smith

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