Ruth Deech, Baroness Deech

Ruth Lynn Deech, Baroness Deech, of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire DBE ( born April 29, 1943) is a British lawyer and high- school teacher who is a life Peeress member of the House of Lords since 2005.

Life

Family, studying, teaching activities and director of the St Anne 's College

She is the daughter of Josef Fraenkel, a founding member of the World Jewish Congress and biographer of Theodor Herzl.

After school Ruth Deech graduated in law and was after graduation 1966-1967 legal assistant of the Law Commission ( Law Commission ) and then received in 1967 her lawyer approval. Subsequently, she was a research assistant from 1967 to 1968 by Leslie Scarman, who was at that time judge of the High Court of Justice and later years of Lord Justice of Appeal and Lord Justice.

In 1968, she went to Canada and taught there until 1970 as an assistant professor law at the University of Windsor. Upon her return to Britain she was 1970-1991 Fellow and tutor in law at St Anne's College, University of Oxford. During this time she was in 1978 a visiting professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Canada 1985-1986 Senior examiner (Senior Proctor ) and then from 1986 to 2000 Member of the Supreme Board of Directors ( hebdomadal Council), University of Oxford. In addition, it was between 1980 and 1990 also administrator of Carmel College in Wallingford and since 1988 has been Chairman of the Board for the award of Stuart Young Awards, which were named after the late 1986 chairman of the BBC Board of Governors.

In 1991 she became director (principal ) of the St Anne 's College and has held this position until 2004. Simultaneously, she served from 1993 to 1997 as chairman of the host committee of the University of Oxford from 1993 to 1994 as a member of the Study Committee on equal conditions in the legal profession admission. Ruth Deech, the 1994 was a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cape Town, was between 1994 and 2002 Member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law and Chair of the Department of Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority ) and from 1994 to 2000 administrator the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies, University of Oxford ( Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies).

Pro- Vice- Chancellor of the University of Oxford and the House of Lords member

Between 1997 and 2000 acted Ruth Deech, the honorary member of the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1996 and 1996 to 2006 manager of the Rhodes Trust, was also a trustee of the University College School ( UCS) and was followed from 2000 to 2003 re- chairman of the host committee of the University of Oxford. In addition, it has been since 1997 Honorary Fellow of the Society for Applied Legal Studies, and in 2001 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

2001, Mrs Deech Pro- Vice- Chancellor of the University of Oxford and has held this post until 2004. Them for their achievements in 2002 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and led from then on the additional name " lady ". Furthermore, it was in 2003 awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Strathclyde and they made ​​a member of the Livery Company the Worshipful Company of Drapers. Between 2004 and 2008 she served as an independent Arbiter for higher education.

Ruth Deech was raised by a Letters Patent dated 5 October 2005 as Life Peeress with the title Baroness Deech, of Cumnor in the County of Oxfordshire in the peerage. Shortly after, on 25 October 2005 was their introduction ( Introduction) as a member of the House of Lords. In the upper house it belongs to the group of so-called Cross Bencher.

In the following years, she was awarded another honorary Doctor of Laws in 2006 from Richmond, The American International University in London. Between 2008 and 2011 she was professor of Law at Gresham College, and was also of 2008-2009 as Chair of the National Working Group on Women in Medicine. Baroness Deech since 2009, Chairman of the Authority for lawyers standards.

She was a member of the Jewish Leadership Council, represented by the Jewish National Fund for Israel and a member of the Roth Institute for Anti-Semitism Studies at Tel Aviv University. She received in 2012 from the Ben- Gurion University of the Negev an honorary Doctor of Law.

In her honor, was the Ruth Deech Building of St Anne 's College named.

Publications

• Divorce Dissent. Dangers in Divorce Reform, 1994, ISBN 9781897969182
• From IVF to Immortality. Controversy in the era of reproductive technology, co-author Anna Smajdor, 2007 ISBN 9780199219797