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Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Burrows
Andrew Stephen Burrows became a Justice of the Supreme Court in June 2020.
He was educated at Prescot Grammar School, Knowsley, Merseyside and Brasenose College, Oxford. He was an academic on the Law faculty at the University of Manchester and, for most of his career, at the University of Oxford. He was a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers from 1989.
He was appointed QC (hon) in 2003 and is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple. He sat as a part-time judge for over 20 years, first as a Recorder and then as a Deputy High Court Judge.
He was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales (1994-1999) and the President of the Society of Legal Scholars (2015-16). He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Distinguished Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and has written many books and articles especially on contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and statute law.
He was formerly Professor of the Law of England at the University of Oxford and is the first, and so far only, person to have been appointed direct to the highest court from a full-time position as a legal academic.
