Chris Thornhill#


Chris Thornhill
Membership Number:4253
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:LAW
Elected:2016
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Chris.thornhill/publications




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Present and Previous Positions
  • 2024 - University of Birmingham, Professor of Law
  • 2018 - 2019 Head of School of Law, Manchester University
  • 2013 - 2024 University of Manchester. Professor of Law
  • 2006 - 2013 University of Glasgow. Professor of Politics
  • 2004 - 2006 King’s College London. Professor
  • 2003 - 2004 King’s College London. Reader
  • 1995 - 2003 King’s College London. Lecturer
  • 1993 - 1995 University of Sussex. Lecturer

Fields of Scholarship
  • Legal history
  • Sociology of law
  • Legal and political philosophy
  • Comparative constitutional law
  • Historical sociology
  • Sociology of institutions

Honours and Awards
  • 2024 Central Asian Legal Research (CALR) Fellow, Tashkent State University of Law
  • 2022 Visiting Professor in Law, Mackenzie University, São Paulo
  • 2022 Inaugural holder: Cátedra Internacional Ministro Celso de Mello, Instituto Brasiliense de Direito Público (Brasilia)
  • 2021 Swedish Research Council, International Collaboration Grant
  • 2021 Visiting Professor in Sociology, University of Flensburg
  • 2020 World Complexity Science Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement
  • 2018 Humboldt Research Prize (Humboldt-Forschungspreis)
  • 2018 Niklas Luhmann Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Sociological Theory (Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld)
  • 2018 Visiting Professor, School of Law, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
  • 2017 Invited Guest Speaker, Brazilian Association for Sociology of Law
  • 2016 Brazilian National Government Senior Visiting Professorship (Faculty of Law, University of Brasilia)
  • 2016 Membership of Academia Europaea
  • 2014, 2017, 2019, 2023 Visiting Professor, Unisinos Law School, São Leopoldo, Brazil
  • 2013 European Research Council Advanced Grant
  • 2012, 2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Santiago de Chile
  • 2011 Wolfgang Kaupen Preis (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie)
  • 2000 Outstanding Book Award (American Library Association)
  • 1990 Best Undergraduate Degree (Downing College Cambridge)
  • 1988-90 University of Cambridge Scholarship
  • 1988 Kurt Hahn Prize (for Cambridge University Tripos Part 1)

Commissions of Trust

  • 2024-: International Panel Member for Flemish Research Council.
  • 2024-: International Panel Member for the Swiss Research Council.
  • 2023-2024: International Panel Member for the Irish Research Council.
  • 2021-: International Panel Member for the Romanian Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI).
  • 2021-: Academia Europaea, Committee Member, Law Section.
  • 2018-: European Science Foundation, College of Experts.
  • 2015-2021: Panel Member European Research Council.
  • 2014-2015: European Science Foundation, External Expert for review of research on Law and Society in Portugal.
  • 2009-2012: Member of AHRC review college for History and Thought.

Editorships

  • Main editor for series: Desafios constitucionais contemporâneos, Editora Contracorrente, São Paulo
  • Editorial board member: History of European Ideas; Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs; Economia y Politica; Siberian Law Review; Journal of Constitutional & Economic Law; Revista de Estudos Constitucionais, Hermenêutica e Teoria do Direito.


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