Professor Christopher Forsyth is Emeritus Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law in the University of Cambridge and Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He is an Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Stellenbosch. He is an Honorary Member of the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple and a barrister (practising from 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square).

He is the author with the late Sir William Wade QC of Administrative Law (OUP, 11th ed, 2014) a standard work relied on and regularly cited as authoritative by students, scholars and judges across the common law world. He was for many years as an Independent Member of the Cambridgeshire Police Authority.