Paul Craig

Paul Philip Craig, (born 27 September 1951) is a British legal scholar, specialising in administrative and European Union law. He was Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2019, and is now emeritus professor.

Education and background Craig was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, where he took his MA and BCL. He became a Fellow of Worcester in 1976, working alongside Francis Reynolds, and remained there until moving to St John's College, Oxford in 1998.

Career With Gráinne de Búrca, Craig is co-author of EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials, whose eighth edition was published by Oxford University Press in August 2024.

He currently teaches five-week courses in Administrative Law and European Union Law at the Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington. He also lectures in Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford, and a master's course at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

He is a member of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute's International Council.

Honours In 1998, Craig was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel on 3 May 2000.

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