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About William Twining
- William Lawrence Twining, FBA (born 22 September 1934) is the Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, having held the post until 1996.
- He is a leading member of the Law in Context movement, and has contributed especially to jurisprudence, evidence and proof, legal method, legal education, and intellectual history.
- He has focused recently on "globalization" and legal theory.Central themes of Twining's contributions to legal matters include the variety and complexity of legal phenomena; the proposition that many so-called “global” processes and patterns are sub-global, linked to empires, diasporas, alliances, and legal traditions; that diffusion, legal pluralism, and surface law are important topics for both analytical and empirical jurisprudence; that, in a world characterized by profound diversity of beliefs and radical poverty, the discipline of law needs to engage with problems of constructing just and workable supra-national institutions and practices; and that adopting a global perspective challenges some of the main working assumptions of Western traditions of academic law. At the start of his career, Twining taught for seven years in Sudan and Tanzania.
- He has maintained an interest in Eastern Africa, and more broadly the Commonwealth.
- He has studied and taught in several leading UK and American law schools as well.
- Twining is currently a visiting faculty member at the University of Miami School of Law.
- Twining has held chairs in Belfast and Warwick.
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