Alan Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry

Alan Ferguson Rodger, Baron Rodger of Earlsferry FRSE , FBA , PC , QC (born September 18, 1944 in Glasgow , Scotland - † June 26, 2011 ) was a British lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom .

Family and education

Rodger was born the son of psychology professor Thomas Ferguson Rodger and his wife Jean Margaret Smith Chalmers. He received his school education at the Kelvinside Academy . This was followed by studies at the University of Glasgow , where he earned both a Magister Artium and a Bachelor of Laws . In addition to his doctorate at New College of the University of Oxford , where he was a lecturer from 1970 to 1972, Rodger worked as a research assistant at Balliol College .

Professional activities

Rodger was admitted to the bar in 1974 and initially practiced his profession as a member of the Faculty of Advocates . In 1979 he switched to the public service and initially worked as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry . After he was appointed Crown Prosecutor by Elizabeth II in 1985 , he turned to work as a public prosecutor . From 1985 to 1988 he served as such at the Scottish Supreme Court . He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland in 1989. In 1992 Rodger then moved to the position of Lord Advocate . At the same time he was awarded a Life Peerage as Baron Rodger of Earlsferry , of Earlsferry in the District of North East Fife . He was Lord President of the Court of Session from 1996 to 2001 before being named Lord of Appeal in Ordinary . On October 1, 2009, he was one of two Scots to take up the post of Supreme Court Justice of the United Kingdom, which he held until his death.

Awards and memberships

• 1991: Fellow of the British Academy
• 1992: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• 1992: Honorary Member of Lincoln's Inn
• 2001: Corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
• Member of the Holdsworth and Athenaeum Club
• Honorary doctorates from the University of Glasgow (1995), the University of Aberdeen (1999) and the University of Edinburgh (2001)

Publications (selection)

• Owners and neighbors in Roman law . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972, ISBN 0-19-825309-5 .
• Mapping the law . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-920655-1 .
• The Courts, The Church and The Constitution . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2008, ISBN 978-0-7486-3754-6 .

literature

• Hector L. MacQueen: Alan Ferguson Rodger, 1944-2011 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XII , 2013, p. 361-401 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Web links

• Biography on the website of the Supreme Court (English, with picture) ( Memento of December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Supreme Court judge Lord Rodger of Earlsferry dies ( English ) BBC News. June 27, 2011. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
2. ↑ Profile at ukscblog.com
3. ^ ^{A b} Charles Mosley (ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Clan Chiefs, Scottish feudal Barons. 107th edition. Boydell & Brewer Inc, Stokesley 2003, ISBN 0971196621 (Vol III), p. 3378