Appendix C: Biographical details of David Howarth
Currently:
University Reader in Private Law, University of Cambridge
Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge
Associate Fellow, Centre for Science and Policy,
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Outline Career History (Public Life):
2005-2010: Member of Parliament for Cambridge
2009-2010: Member of the select committee on the
reform of the House of Commons
2008-2010: Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State
for Justice
2008: Liberal Democrat Shadow Solicitor-General
2006-2008: Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for Energy
2005-2008: Member of the Constitutional Affairs/
Justice Select Committee
2005-2007: Member of the Environmental Audit Select
Committee
2008-2010: Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary
University Group
1992, 2001 and 2005: Parliamentary Candidate for
Cambridge
1997: Parliamentary Candidate for Peterborough
2000-2003: Leader, Cambridge City Council
1990-2003: Leader of Liberal Democrat Group, Cambridge
City Council
1990-2000: Member of Liberal Democrat Federal Policy
Committee and member of the Council of European Liberal Democrat
and Reform Parties
1987-2004: Cambridge City Councillor for Castle Ward,
Cambridge (elected 1987, 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003)
1986: City Council Candidate, King's Hedges Ward,
Cambridge
1986-2010: Executive Member, Cambridge Liberal Party/
Cambridge Liberal Democrats
Outline Career History (Non-public life):
1992-2005: University Lecturer, Department of Land
Economy, University of Cambridge, teaching member of Faculty of
Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
2001: Visiting Professor, Washburn Law School, Kansas
2000-2001: Chair, Board of Scrutiny, University of
Cambridge
1995: Butterworth's Prize (for new legal textbook)
1987-1992: University Assistant Lecturer, Department
of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, teaching member of Faculty
of Law, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge
1985-1987: William Senior Research Fellow in Comparative
Law, Clare College, Cambridge
1985: Council of Europe Research Fellow
1984-1985: Acting Instructor, Yale College
1981-1983: Paul Mellon Fellow, Yale University
Other:
2010: Trustee, Collections Trust
2010: Honorary Councillor, Cambridge City Council
Education:
BA/MA (Cantab) (1st Class Hons, George Long Prize
in Jurisprudence)
MA and MPhil (Yale)
LLM (Yale Law School)
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