Professor Andrew Stockley is an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham and has also been appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland while undertaking a major research project for an international public policy institute.
He has been a member of four university senior leadership teams in Britain and New Zealand, led university strategic initiatives and headed major university projects and reviews. Positions held:
Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, 2022 to 2024. The College of Arts and Law comprises the Birmingham Law School and the Departments of Drama and Theatre Arts; English Language and Linguistics; English Literature; Film and Creative Writing; History; African Studies and Anthropology; Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology; Modern Languages; History of Art; Music; Philosophy; and Theology and Religion. The College also includes the Shakespeare Institute and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts. Member of the University Executive Board. Professor of Constitutional Law and History.
Executive Dean of The City Law School, University of London, 2018 to 2022. The City Law School was originally the Inns of Court School of Law and is a leading provider of training for the Bar and for becoming a solicitor as well as teaching a full range of academic law programmes. Member of the University Senior Leadership Team. Professor of Constitutional Law and History.
Dean of the Auckland Law School, University of Auckland, 2011 to 2018. Member of the University Senior Leadership Team. Professor of Law.
Senior Tutor and Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford, 2006 to 2011. Member of the Oxford law faculty.
Principal of College House, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 1997 to 2006. College House is New Zealand’s oldest university residential college.
Head of the Canterbury Law School, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2003 to 2004. Member of the University Senior Management Team.
Professor Stockley has taught and written on a variety of constitutional law and history topics. Publications include Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-3, The New Zealand Supreme Court: The First Ten Years, and book chapters and articles in leading journals. He has been a member of legal education and research councils and law journal editorial boards.
He has held voluntary and charity leadership roles, largely focused on education and young people, including developing public speaking skills among school pupils, improving students’ critical thinking, their ability to research, reason, and consider alternative points of view. This includes having chaired the New Zealand Schools Debating Foundation, the Executive Committee of the World Schools Debating Championships, and having been Chief Adjudicator of the World Schools Debating Championships.