Andrew Tettenborn Background
Andrew Tettenborn is a British legal academic and writer who teaches commercial law and common law at Swansea University’s Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law.
Tettenborn earned both an MA and an LLB from the University of Cambridge. He attended Peterhouse at Cambridge and won academic prizes in law.
Career
Professor Andrew Tettenborn joined Swansea Law School and the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law in 2010, after teaching at the universities of Exeter (Bracton Professor of Law 1996-2010), Nottingham, and Cambridge. Professor Tettenborn is a well-known scholar in both common law and continental law. He has held visiting positions at Melbourne University, the University of Connecticut, and Cleveland’s Case Law School. He has written and co-written books on torts, damages, and maritime law, as well as numerous articles and chapters on common law, commercial law, and restitution.
Professor Tettenborn serves on the editorial boards of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of International Maritime Law, as well as co-editing Marsden’s Collisions at Sea and Clerk & Lindsell on Torts. In addition, he writes extensively in private law and is a member of Clerk & Lindsell’s Torts team. Professor Tettenborn also teaches guest courses at Cambridge, Geneva, or both in most years, and travels extensively to advise and present papers on various aspects of commercial law.
Andrew Tettenborn politics
He is politically active in addition to his academic work. He is a member of the Free Speech Union and was UKIP’s candidate for the Bath constituency in the 2001 general election, finishing fifth with 708 votes. In 2021, he wrote in The Times in support of then-Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s plan to replace the European Convention on Human Rights with a British Bill of Rights that would provide the same protections, claiming that it would provide more democratic legitimacy than jurisprudence from the European Court of Human Rights and human rights academics.
In 2021, he signed an open letter in The Sunday Times in support of Kathleen Stock, after students and academics criticized her receiving an OBE while holding gender-critical views. He is also a contributor to The Spectator and The Critic.
Following the capture by Russian forces of British-born Ukrainian soldiers Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner during the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Tettenborn stated that the statement by Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis and Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry that Aslin and Pinner were fighting illegally in the country could be used by Russian forces to justify an atrocity against the soldiers. According to Andrew Tettenborn, it is incorrect under international law to claim that the two are fighting illegally in the country. Later, the Prime Minister’s spokesperson stated that the British government does not believe the pair acted illegally in the war.
Andrew Tettenborn Brexit
Just as we mentioned above, Andrew Tettenorn is very conscious politically. He penned his thoughts on some salient issues that needs to be addressed as regards brexit.
He said Brexit will remain at half-done if the issues are not addressed. He shared his opinion in an article publish on Daily Mail on the 22nd of June 2022.
