Roger B. M. Cotterrell FBA FAcSS is the Anniversary Professor of Legal Theory at Queen Mary University of London[1] and was made a fellow of the British Academy in 2005.
The approach has influenced research in such diverse fields as communal property rights, sentencing policy, and foreign investment law.
His writings insist on clearly distinguishing jurisprudence (as the professional theoretical and practical knowledge of jurists) from the currently dominant forms of Anglophone legal philosophy.
He wrote profiles of musicians and reviewed music for many magazines from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and has edited and contributed to books on jazz.
From 1975 to 1992 he wrote regularly for the Warsaw-based magazine Jazz Forum, published internationally in English, German and Polish editions.