Jeremy Christian Nicholas Horder FBA (born 25 February 1962) is Professor of Criminal Law and former Head of Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [1] From 2005 - 2010 he served as Law Commissioner for England and Wales. [2] Horder graduated from the University of Hull in 1984 with an LLB. [1] [2] He then studied Civil Law at the University of Oxford, completing his DPhil while a Fellow of Jesus College. His thesis concerned homicide law from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. [3] Horder was the Chairman of Oxford's Faculty of Law between 1998 and 2000. [1] He is an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple [2] and former Edmund Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London. He holds an Honorary LLD from the University of Hull. [1] In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [4]