Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech

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Ruth Deech (2015)

Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech DBE (born April 29, 1943 ) is a British lawyer and university professor who has been a Life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 2005 .

Life

Family, college, teaching and director of St Anne's College

She is the daughter of Josef Fraenkel , a founding member of the World Jewish Congress and biographer of Theodor Herzl .

After attending school, Ruth Deech studied law and after completing her studies she was the legal assistant to the Law Commission between 1966 and 1967 and was subsequently admitted as a lawyer in 1967 . From 1967 to 1968 she was research assistant to Leslie Scarman , who was a judge at the High Court of Justice at the time and later a long-time Lord Justice of Appeal and Lord Justice .

In 1968 she went to Canada , where she taught law as an assistant professor at the University of Windsor until 1970 . Upon her return to the UK she was 1970-1991 Fellow and Tutor of Law at St Anne's College of Oxford University . During this time, she was visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, Canada , in 1978, and Senior Proctor from 1985 to 1986 and then from 1986 to 2000 on the Hebdomadal Council of Oxford University. She was also the administrator of Carmel College in Wallingford between 1980 and 1990 and has been chairman of the committee that awards the Stuart Young Awards , named after the chairman of the BBC Board of Governors , who died in 1986 .

In 1991 she became Principal of St Anne's College and held this position until 2004. She also served as Chair of the University of Oxford's Admission Committee from 1993 to 1997 and as a member of the Committee of Inquiry into Equal Conditions for Admission to the Bar between 1993 and 1994. Ruth Deech, who was visiting professor at the University of Cape Town's Faculty of Law in 1994, was a member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law and Chair of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority from 1994 to 2002 and an administrator from 1994 to 2000 the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies .

Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford and Member of the House of Lords

The Ruth Deech building at St Anne's College

Between 1997 and 2000 acted Ruth Deech, the 1996 honorary member of the Bar Association of the Inner Temple was and 1996-2006 manager of the Rhodes Trust was also as manager of the University College School (UCS) and was then from 2000 to 2003 again chairman of the host committee of Oxford University. In addition, she has been an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Applied Legal Studies since 1997 and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 2001 .

In 2001 Ms. Deech became Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford and held this office until 2004. For her services, she was named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002 and from then on carried the suffix “Dame”. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate in law from the University of Strathclyde in 2003 and was accepted as a member of the Livery Company of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Between 2004 and 2008 she acted as an independent arbitrator for higher education.

Ruth Deech was raised to the nobility by a letters patent dated October 5, 2005 as a Life Peeress with the title Baroness Deech , of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire . Shortly thereafter took place on 25 October 2005 their introduction ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house she belongs to the group of so-called crossbenchers .

Subsequently, in 2006, she was awarded another honorary doctorate in law from Richmond, The American International University in London . Between 2008 and 2011 she was Professor of Law at Gresham College and from 2008 to 2009 she also chaired the National Working Group on Women in Medicine. Baroness Deech has been the Chair of the Legal Standards Authority since 2009.

She was a member of the Jewish Leadership Council, authorized representative of the Jewish National Fund for Israel and a member of the Roth Institute for Anti-Semitism Studies at Tel Aviv University. She received an honorary doctorate in law from Ben Gurion University in the Negev in 2012 .

The Ruth Deech building at St Anne's College was named in her honor.

Publications

  • Divorce Dissent. Dangers in Divorce Reform , 1994, ISBN 9781897969182
  • From IVF to Immortality. Controversy in the era of reproductive technology , co-author Anna Smajdor, 2007, ISBN 9780199219797

Web links

Commons : Ruth Deech  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jewish Heads of Oxford Colleges , Oxford Jewish Heritage website of the Oxford Jewish Congregation , April 2012, accessed August 17, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Deech, Ruth, Baroness Deech
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deech, Ruth Lynn, Baroness Deech (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1943