Professor Rebecca Williams
I grew up in Manchester and studied law as an undergraduate and on the BCL at Oxford before doing a PhD in Birmingham. My first full time academic post was at Robinson College in Cambridge, after which I came back to Oxford, to Pembroke, in 2005 and I've been here ever since. I teach criminal law to first year undergraduate students at Pembroke (usually in their first term of their first year), and I teach Administrative law to second year undergraduates. I also co-run one of the country's first courses in Law and Computer Science for graduate students taking the BCL, MJur or MLF, or the 4th year or MSc in Computer Science. I love the fact that my research and teaching give me the opportunity to think logically about some of society's most important questions, and the ability to use my subject expertise to help to solve problems in an interdisciplinary way.
Date of Birth: 20 December 1975 Nationality: British
Address: Pembroke College, Oxford OX1 1DW
Education History
1988-1993 Parrs Wood High School, Manchester (state comprehensive)
1993-1994 Maiden Erlegh School, Reading (state comprehensive)
1994-1998 Worcester College, Oxford (BA, BCL)
1998-2001 University of Birmingham (PhD)
Employment History
2005-date University of Oxford
Professor of Public and Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, 2017-date
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, 2005-17
Fellow in Law, Pembroke College, 2005-date
2001-2005 University of Cambridge
College Teaching Officer and Fellow in Law, Robinson College, 2001-05;
Deputy Admissions Tutor, Robinson College, 2003-05;
Deputy Director, Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge, 2003-05.
1998-2001 University of Birmingham
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant and PhD student.
Visiting Positions Fall 2008, 2009: Scholar in Residence, Columbia Law School.
Spring 2014: Visiting Professor, University of Technology, Sydney.
Fall 2017: Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School.
Advanced Study and Research
Research Grants
2019-2022 £1.1 million EPSRC grant Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems (RAInS), Co-I jointly with researchers in Computer Science and Geography at Aberdeen University and Computer Science at Cambridge University.
2019-202 £1.2 million UKRI/ISCF grant Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law, Co-I with researchers in the Oxford Departments of Law, Economics, Computer Science, Education and the Saïd Business School. I am leading Work Package 5, researching the challenges technology presents for education in law and computer science.
2017-18 £10,000 John Fell Fund pump-priming grant Mechanisation of Law, for a series of seminars designed to coalesce an interdisciplinary research team for a large grant application in the field of law and technology (which successfully resulted in the ESRC/ISCF grant detailed above).
My work has been cited in the European Court of Justice, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and the High Court of Australia.
Co-founder of OLTEP, the Oxford LawTech Education Programme https://oltep.ox.ac.uk/
Mum to three children (two girls and a boy).
Professor Rebecca Williams
I grew up in Manchester and studied law as an undergraduate and on the BCL at Oxford before doing a PhD in Birmingham. My first full time academic post was at Robinson College in Cambridge, after which I came back to Oxford, to Pembroke, in 2005 and I've been here ever since. I teach criminal law to first year undergraduate students at Pembroke (usually in their first term of their first year), and I teach Administrative law to second year undergraduates. I also co-run one of the country's first courses in Law and Computer Science for graduate students taking the BCL, MJur or MLF, or the 4th year or MSc in Computer Science. I love the fact that my research and teaching give me the opportunity to think logically about some of society's most important questions, and the ability to use my subject expertise to help to solve problems in an interdisciplinary way.
Date of Birth: 20 December 1975 Nationality: British
Address: Pembroke College, Oxford OX1 1DW
Education History
1988-1993 Parrs Wood High School, Manchester (state comprehensive)
1993-1994 Maiden Erlegh School, Reading (state comprehensive)
1994-1998 Worcester College, Oxford (BA, BCL)
1998-2001 University of Birmingham (PhD)
Employment History
2005-date University of Oxford
Professor of Public and Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, 2017-date
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, 2005-17
Fellow in Law, Pembroke College, 2005-date
2001-2005 University of Cambridge
College Teaching Officer and Fellow in Law, Robinson College, 2001-05;
Deputy Admissions Tutor, Robinson College, 2003-05;
Deputy Director, Centre for Public Law, University of Cambridge, 2003-05.
1998-2001 University of Birmingham
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant and PhD student.
Visiting Positions Fall 2008, 2009: Scholar in Residence, Columbia Law School.
Spring 2014: Visiting Professor, University of Technology, Sydney.
Fall 2017: Visiting Professor, Columbia Law School.
Advanced Study and Research
Research Grants
2019-2022 £1.1 million EPSRC grant Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems (RAInS), Co-I jointly with researchers in Computer Science and Geography at Aberdeen University and Computer Science at Cambridge University.
2019-202 £1.2 million UKRI/ISCF grant Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law, Co-I with researchers in the Oxford Departments of Law, Economics, Computer Science, Education and the Saïd Business School. I am leading Work Package 5, researching the challenges technology presents for education in law and computer science.
2017-18 £10,000 John Fell Fund pump-priming grant Mechanisation of Law, for a series of seminars designed to coalesce an interdisciplinary research team for a large grant application in the field of law and technology (which successfully resulted in the ESRC/ISCF grant detailed above).
My work has been cited in the European Court of Justice, the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and the High Court of Australia.
Co-founder of OLTEP, the Oxford LawTech Education Programme https://oltep.ox.ac.uk/
Mum to three children (two girls and a boy).