Hazel Genn
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Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE, KC (Hon), FBA (born 1949){{cite web|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/archive.asp?fellowsID=1360|title=British Academy fellowship profile|accessdate=28 January 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606092009/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/archive.asp?fellowsID=1360|archivedate=6 June 2011}} is a leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world,{{cite web|publisher=Ministry of Justice|url=http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/announcement_130807a.htm|title=Honorary QC nominations|work=Announcements 2007|quote=The six appointees in 2006 were...|date=13 August 2007|accessdate=29 January 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121043736/http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/announcement_130807a.htm|archivedate=21 November 2008}} and is a former Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London.
Public service
Genn is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission.{{cite hansard|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo060123/wmstext/60123m01.htm|house=House of Commons|date=23 January 2006|column=41WS |title=Constitutional Reform Act}} She was formerly: a member of the Economic and Social Research Council, where she served as chair of the Research Grants Board;{{cite web|pages=16–17|url=http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Images/Annual%20Report%2000-01_tcm6-6041.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091212211214/https://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/Images/Annual%20Report%2000-01_tcm6-6041.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 December 2009|title=Annual Report 2000-01|publisher=ESRC|accessdate=28 January 2009}} a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life;{{cite web|url=http://www.public-standards.org.uk/About/Previous_members.html|title=Standards in public life: previous members|accessdate=28 January 2009}} chair of the Public Legal Education and Support (PLEAS) task force;{{cite web|url=http://www.pleas.org.uk/about.html|title=About the PLEAS Task Force|publisher=Public Legal Education and Support|accessdate=28 January 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202224526/http://www.pleas.org.uk/about.html|archivedate=2 December 2008}} chair of the Advisory Panel for research on Family Advice and Information for the Legal Services Commission; chair of main panel J of the Research Assessment Exercise 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.rae.ac.uk/panels/main/j|title=RAE2008 Main Panel J|accessdate=30 January 2009}}
Education and early career
Genn is the daughter of Lionel and Dorothy Genn. She attended Minchenden Grammar School and studied for a joint degree in Sociology, Social Anthropology and Social Administration at the University of Hull.{{cite web |url=https://www.le.ac.uk/ebulletin-archive/ebulletin/news/2000-2009/2007/07/nparticle.2007-07-25.html |title=Oration for Professor Dame Hazel Genn by Professor Gordon Campbell |publisher=University of Leicester|accessdate=26 January 2018}} In 1972, she abandoned work towards an M.A. in Sociology and became a researcher, first at Cambridge Institute of Criminology (1972–74), then at the Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (1974–1985) as a member of Wolfson College, Oxford,{{cite book|title=Michaelmas Term 1974|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Complete Alphabetical List of the Resident Members of the University of Oxford|year=1974|page=135}} during which she also achieved her LLB.
She joined the Law Department at Queen Mary College, University of London in 1985, and became Professor and Head of Department in 1991.{{cite web|page=23|url=http://www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni/publications/quad/quad13.pdf|title=Quad - October 2004|publisher=Queen Mary, University of London|accessdate=28 January 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230091652/http://www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni/publications/quad/quad13.pdf|archivedate=30 December 2008}} In 1994 she went to work at University College London, where she has remained.
Honours
Genn was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) on 17 June 2006, elevated from Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She was awarded honorary fellowship of Queen Mary in 2004, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Edinburgh in 2004,{{cite web|url=http://websiterepository.ed.ac.uk/news/honorary04.html|date=28 January 2004|accessdate=28 January 2009|title=University of Edinburgh News and Events - J.K. Rowling Among Edinburgh Honorary Graduates}} and by the University of Leicester on 13 July 2007. She was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel in 2006. In 2011 Dame Hazel became a patron of the Aberdeen Law Project.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060825080759/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/academics/profiles/index.shtml?genn Profile], UCL.ac.uk; accessed 27 April 2014.
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