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Dr Peter North, CBE, QC Dr Peter North, CBE, QC, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford since 1984, has been the Vice-Chancellor of the University since October 1993. Dr North pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies at Keble College, Oxford. He later held posts as a Lecturer in Law at Worcester College (1965-68), and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Keble College (1965-76), before becoming a Law Commissioner for England and Wales (1976-84). As a Law Commissioner, Dr North was responsible for a range of law reform matters. From 1985 to 1988 Dr North was Chairman of the Road Traffic Law Review, which resulted in the publication of a White Paper in 1989 and in the Road Traffic Act 1991. Almost all of the Review's 137 recommendations have been adopted, including the use of cameras to detect speeding and traffic light offences. Dr North obtained an Oxford DCL in 1976, was awarded the CBE in 1989, was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, and was appointed QC (honoris causa) in 1993. His nine major published books include Private International Law of Matrimonial Causes (1977), and the legal text book Cheshire and North, Private International Law (1970, 12th edition 1992). He has taught or lectured in many universities around the world, some forty in all, including at least one in every continent. Jean-Claude Frachebourg Secretary-General of the Graduate Institute of International Studies since 1978, Jean-Claude Frachebourg, a Swiss citizen, is responsible for its administrative management. After studying at the University of Geneva, where he received his Master's degree (licence es lettres) in history (1957), he taught history and German for ten years at the College Calvin in Geneva. He then, for six years, was in charge of pedagogical training for Genevan secondary school teachers, and, thereafter, spent four years with the general secretariat of the Department of Public Instruction of the Canton of Geneva. Author of publications concerning the history of Geneva and of Switzerland, he has taken part, for seventeen years, in the work of the Swiss Fund for Scientific Research and directed, for eight years, its division of national research programmes (1976-93). Professor Robert Frank Professor Robert Frank is a professor of the History of Contemporary International Relations at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. He completed his doctorate on the financing of French rearmament between 1935 and 1939 at Paris I University and received his habilitation in 1990, published as a book (La Hantise du déclin. La France en Europe (1920-1960), Paris, 1994). He was previously Assistant Professor at Paris X-Nanterre University (1977-1991), then he became Director of the Institute of Contemporary History at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (1991-1994) and has also worked as a history teacher in various schools and colleges. Since 1989 he has taught courses and organized several conferences at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris. He has now started an international research project with 180 historians in fifteen different countries on `European identity in the twentieth century'. |
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