George Williams Keeton, FBA (22 May 1902 – 2 October 1989) was an English legal scholar and academic.
Born in Sheffield, Keeton studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating in 1923 with a first-class BA and an LLB.
[1][2] He was appointed Reader in Law and Politics at the University of Hong Kong in 1924, remaining there for three years.
[3] Keeton was promoted to be Professor of English Law at UCL in 1937 and served as dean of the faculty from 1939 to 1957 and vice-provost from 1966 to 1969.
[4][5] Alongside these appointments, he was principal (1938–52) and then president of the London Institute of World Affairs,[6] and was co-editor of The Modern Law Review from 1937 to 1939; he was also editor of The Solicitor.