Professor of Law at Aston University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence, Queen’s University, Belfast
Simon Lee is Professor of Law at Aston University and Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence, Queen’s University, Belfast. He was a Brackenbury Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford (1976-1979) and a Harkness Fellow at Yale Law School (1979-1980). After being a lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford, and King’s College London, he became professor of jurisprudence at Queen’s (1989-1995) and dean of the faculty of law. He was Rector & Chief Executive of Liverpool Hope University College (1995-2003) and Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University (2003-2009), both institutions winning various awards during his leadership. He was Chair of Level Partnerships (2010-2015), Executive Director of the Cambridge Theological Federation (2014-2016), a Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge (2015-2016) and a Visiting Fellow (2016-2018). He was awarded honorary doctorates by Virginia Theological Seminary in 2011 and Liverpool Hope University in 2016. Simon Lee’s contributions to the peace process in Northern Ireland included being the co-founder of Initiative ’92, which established the Opsahl Commission. He has served on various public and voluntary sector boards and now chairs the William Temple Foundation.