John Armour

Armour was born on 24 December 1971 in Nottingham, England.'ARMOUR, Prof. John Hamish', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U246433, accessed 29 July 2017] He studied law at Pembroke College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1994, later promoted to Master of Arts (MA Oxon) as per tradition, and a post-graduate Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) degree in 1995.{{cite web|title=ARMOUR, Prof. John Hamish|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U246433|website=Who's Who 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|access-date=24 December 2015|date=November 2015}} He then attended Yale Law School where he completed a Master of Laws (LLM) degree.

From 1996 to 2000, Armour was a lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham. In addition, between 1999 and 2000, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. From 2000 to 2001, he was the Norton Rose Lecturer in Corporate and Financial Law at Nottingham.

In 2001, Armour moved to the University of Cambridge. He was a senior research fellow from 2001 to 2002. He was then a lecturer in law from 2002 to 2005 and, having been promoted, was a senior lecturer from 2005 to 2007.{{cite news|title=Oxford Uni appoints first Lovells professor|url=http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/news/1146457/oxford-uni-appoints-lovells-professor|access-date=3 January 2015|work=Legal Week}}{{cite web|title=Professor John Armour|url=http://www.ecgi.org/members_directory/member.php?member_id=776|website=Members Directory|publisher=European Corporate Governance Institute|access-date=3 January 2015}} During his time at Cambridge, he was also a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

In 2007, Armour moved to the University of Oxford. On 1 July 2007, he became the first Lovells Professor of Law and Finance.{{cite journal|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2006-7/weekly/150307/notc.htm#7Ref|title=Lovells Professorship of Law and Finance|date=15 March 2007|publisher=University of Oxford|journal=Oxford University Gazette|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204030527/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2006-7/weekly/150307/notc.htm#7Ref|url-status=dead}} That year, he was also elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.{{cite web|title=Prof John Armour|url=http://www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/content/prof-john-armour|website=Oriel College|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=24 December 2015}} In 2011, the chair was renamed as the Hogan Lovells Professorship of Law and Finance.{{cite journal|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2010-2011/9june2011-no4956/councilandmaincommittees/|date=9 June 2011|number=4956|volume=141|publisher=University of Oxford|journal=Oxford University Gazette|title=Law Professorships|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=4 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204022846/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2010-2011/9june2011-no4956/councilandmaincommittees/|url-status=dead}}

Armour has held a number of visiting academic appointments, including Visiting Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School and Visiting Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics of the University of Chicago.{{cite web|title=John Armour|url=http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/John_Armour|website=Faculty|publisher=Columbia Law School|access-date=3 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103192111/http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/John_Armour|archive-date=3 January 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=John Armour|url=https://bfi.uchicago.edu/people/john-armour|website=People|publisher=The University of Chicago|access-date=3 January 2015}}

In 2007, Armour married Rebecca Ann Williams, Professor of Public and Criminal Law at Oxford. They have two daughters and a son.

In July 2017, Armour was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|website=British Academy|access-date=29 July 2017|date=2 July 2017}}

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• [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U246433 ARMOUR, Prof. John Hamish], Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014

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