# Nigel Simmonds

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{{Short description|English jurisprudence professor}}
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'''Nigel Simmonds''' is an English [legal scholar](/source/legal_scholar) who is Emeritus Professor of [Jurisprudence](/source/Jurisprudence) at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge)<ref>[http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/ne-simmonds/76 Cambridge Faculty of Law]</ref> and former Dean of College at [Corpus Christi College, Cambridge](/source/Corpus_Christi_College%2C_Cambridge).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/component/sobi2/?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=63 |title=Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |access-date=16 June 2010 |archive-date=18 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091118200136/http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/component/sobi2/?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=63 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Career ==
Simmonds attended one of the first comprehensive schools in Britain in [Cumberland](/source/Cumberland) before going to study law at [Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge](/source/Sidney_Sussex_College%2C_Cambridge) in 1970. He then studied for the LL.M where he once again attained a First Class. After a PhD and some years of teaching at [Manchester University](/source/Manchester_University), he returned to Cambridge where he was a University Professor in Jurisprudence until his retirement in 2018. At [Corpus](/source/Corpus_Christi_College%2C_Cambridge), Nigel Simmonds was Director of Studies in Law and Dean of College. Nigel Simmonds specialises in [Jurisprudence](/source/Jurisprudence). He is the author of 'A Debate Over Rights' (Oxford, 2000), 'Central Issues in Jurisprudence' (2008) and 'Law as a Moral Idea' (2007).

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