British Academy names Canon Law Professor as Fellow

A School of Law and Politics Professor is one of 4 Cardiff University academics to be elected as Fellows of the British Academy this July.

Professor Norman Doe who is a Professor of Law has been elected to the Fellowship for achieving distinction in humanities and social sciences. He will join a community of more than 1,700 distinguished academics.

Professor Doe, who has taught at Cardiff University since 1985, is the founding Director of the Centre for Law and Religion and boasts an extensive and prolific academic CV.

In the last year, Professor Doe has become an Honorary King’s Counsel (KC Honoris Causa) due to his work in reviving the study of Ecclesiastical Law in England and Wales and has taken a play he has written, Thrice to Rome, on tour across significant ecclesiastical sites in the UK with a performance planned in Rome in September.

Professor Doe’s publications on canon law have been highly influential being cited in decisions relating to the constitutional role of the Church of England and contributing to the revision of clergy discipline procedures.

Speaking of his Fellowship, Professor Doe said, “I am surprised and delighted to have been elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Coming just four months of having been appointed honorary King’s Counsel, this election by the British Academy is further much welcomed recognition of all the Centre for Law and Religion, which I am honoured to direct, has achieved over so many years. Being a Fellow of the British Academy will also enable me to enhance further my own specialism, namely, on the history of ecclesiastical law and on modern comparative canon law. To the British Academy, and to my colleagues at the Centre for all their hard work for such a long time, I am extremely grateful”.