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Professor Colin Munro

Emeritus Professor of Consitutional Law

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2047

Email: Colin.Munro@ed.ac.uk

Professor Colin Munro was Professor of Constitutional Law from 1990 to 2009, when he relinquished full-time employment and became Professor Emeritus. He was a Dean of the Faculty of Law in the 1990s. He previously taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Durham, Essex and Manchester, where he was Professor of Law from 1985 to 1990. Colin Munro's principal interests are in constitutional and administrative law, human rights, media law, and aspects of criminal justice and legal philosophy. He serves as a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Public Law. Amongst other activities, he is an occasional consultant on parliamentary and other matters, and a contributor to newspapers and broadcasting, and since 2009 teaches on a part-time basis in Great Britain, at the Institute of Law in Jersey, and in the University of Hong Kong.