Fellowship

The RSE Fellowship comprises around 1,800 leading experts in the sciences, arts, business, professions and the third and public sectors, with links to Scotland. This range of expertise within the Fellowship places us in a unique position to provide an informed, interdisciplinary response to issues facing Scotland and internationally.

Our Fellows from academia, business and public service are among the most distinguished in their fields. We engage and connect nationally and internationally to share knowledge and tackle the most pressing challenges of the modern world.

Elected: 2019
Discipline: Professional, Educational and Public Sector Leadership
Rt Hon James Wolffe
KC, Brick Court Chambers
Judge (P/T), Courts of Appeal Guernsey and Jersey (2022 to date); Chair, The Abbotsford Trust (2021 to date); Governor, The Legal Education Foundation (2022 to date); Trustee, The Slynn Foundation (2022 to date); Trustee, The LawScot Foundation (2016 to date); Member, ICAS Discipline and Appeal Tribunals Panel (2022 to date); Lord Advocate 2016-21; Dean, Faculty of Advocates 2014-16; Head of UK Delegation, CCBE 2013-15; Vice-dean, Faculty of Advocates 2013-14; Chair, Scottish Council of Law Reporting 2011-13; Trustee, National Library of Scotland 2008-13; Advocate Depute 2007-10; First Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Government 2004-7; Advocate 1992; QC 2007 (KC 2022); Barrister (England & Wales) 2013; Bencher, Middle Temple, London; Honorary Bencher, The King’s Inn, Dublin; FSA Scot; Fellow, the European Law Institute; FRIAS (Hon); LLB (Edin), BCL (Oxon), LLD (Glasgow, Hon)
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