Peter Birks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Birks

British legal academic

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1941

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 06-Jul-2004

Profession: jurist, university teacher, legal historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Peter Brian Herrenden Birks (3 October 1941 – 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death.
He also became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989, and an honorary Queen's counsel in 1995.
He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of Restitution, and is often considered to have been one of the greatest English legal scholars of the 20th century.In his obituary, he was described as "a key figure in the extraordinary development of the law of restitution in the last 45 years".