John Eekelaar FBA (born 2 July 1942) is a South African former academic specialising in family law.
[1] In 2005 he retired from teaching after a forty-year career at Oxford University.
[2] He was the academic director of Pembroke College from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the co-director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).
[2][3] Eekelaar was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and earned his LL.B.
Eekelaar has been a Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College since 1965; he held a CUF Lecturership from 1966 to 1991, and has been Reader in Law since 1991.