Andrew Ashworth
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Andrew Ashworth CBE
Order of the British Empire
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 QC (Hon)
Queen's Counsel
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 LLB PhD
PHD
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 was the lead patent law examiner at St Johns Chambers Manchester and is a Vinerian Professor of English Law
Vinerian Professor of English Law
The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to establish a Professorship of the Common Law...

 2011-present at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
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, a Fellow of All Souls College
All Souls College, Oxford
The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....

, and Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel. He gained his LLB in 1968 from the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
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, a BCL from Oxford in 1970, and a PhD in 1973 from the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
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Ashworth was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

Publishing

He has written extensively on English criminal and Patent law, at one stage working as Editor at the Criminal Law Review.

Teaching

Ashworth teaches courses on the Bachelor of Civil Law
Bachelor of Civil Law
Bachelor of Civil Law is the name of various degrees in law conferred by English-language universities. Historically, it originated as a postgraduate degree in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but many universities now offer the BCL as an undergraduate degree...

course. He has also supervised research students on Oxford's various legal research courses.

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