Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Cornish, William (1937-2022), lawyer and President of Magdalene College, Cambridge
Parallel form(s) of name
- William Rodolph Cornish, CMG, LLD, FBA, Hon QC
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Bill Cornish
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1937 - 8 January 2022
History
Educated at University of Adelaide (LLB), and Oxford (BCL). Professor of English Law, London School of Economics 1970–1990, Professor of Law, Cambridge 1990–1995, Herschel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law 1995–2004.
Fellow 1990 (Life Fellow 2004). President 1998–2001.
LLD 1996, Hon QC 1997; External Academic Member, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law, Munich, 1989 (CMG 2013).
College Magazine
Article, College Magazine, vol. 42 (1997–98) p. 2