Andrew Tettenborn
Andrew Tettenborn is a British legal academic and writer who is a professor of law at Swansea University's Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, specialising in commercial law and the common law. Education. Tettenborn completed an MA and an LLB at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, he attended Peterhouse, Cambridge and won academic prizes in law. Career. Prior to 1996, he was a lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 1996, he left Cambridge and was appointed Bracton Professor of Law at the University of Exeter and  in 2010 Tettenborn left Exeter to join Swansea. He previously taught at the University of Nottingham. Political commentary. In addition to academic work, he is politically active. He is a member of the Free Speech Union and was UKIP's candidate in the 2001 general election for the Bath constituency, coming fifth with 708 votes. In 2021, he wrote in "The Times" in defence of then Justice Secretary Dominic Raab's plan to remove the European Convention of Human Rights from UK law and replace it with a British Bill of Rights, which would provide the same protections, saying it  would provide more democratic legitimacy than jurisprudence emanating from the European Court of Human Rights and human rights academics. He signed an open letter in "The Sunday Times" in support of Kathleen Stock in 2021, following criticism from students and academics regarding her being awarded an OBE while holding gender critical views. He also writes for "The Spectator" and "The Critic". In 2022, following the capture by Russian forces of British-born Ukrainian soldiers Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tettenborn commented that the statement Aslin and Pinner were fighting illegally in the country – by  Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis and Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry – could be used by Russian forces to justify an atrocity against the soldiers. Tettenborn said that it was incorrect as a matter of international law to say the two were fighting in the country illegally. Later, the Prime Minister's spokesperson said that the British government does not consider the pair to have being fighting illegally in the war. Publications. Tettenborn is the co-editor of "Clerk & Lindsell on Torts". He is also on the editorial boards of "Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly" and the "Journal of  International Maritime Law".