Founding professor of law at the University of Warwick who designed a groundbreaking curriculum
Geoffrey Wilson, who has died aged 85, was the founding professor of law at the University of Warwick, where he created an institution that has significantly influenced legal education and scholarship. He was one of a number of academic lawyers who rebelled against their initial legal education and sought to develop alternatives. His contribution was unique in that he seized the opportunity to establish a radically different law school in an innovative environment.
Appointed to Warwick in 1967, two years after the university was founded and before any students arrived, he had almost three years to develop an ethos, design a groundbreaking curriculum and recruit a lively team of like-minded younger colleagues from several countries.
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