Mark Hill KC

Global Distinguished Professor of Law
Notre Dame London Law Programme

Home Affiliation: Queen’s Counsel, Barrister at FTB Chambers

Mark Hill KC has more than twenty years experience of common law practice advising and representing clients in a broad range of cases including personal injury, professional negligence, rating, costs, trusts of land, property disputes and village greens. Against this wide background, he has developed an expertise in the law of religious liberty and is recognized as the country's leading practitioner in ecclesiastical law. He is an honorary professor of law at Cardiff University and formerly visiting fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Hill is honorary professor at the Centre for Law and Religion, Cardiff University; extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria; visiting professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London and adjunct professor at Notre Dame University, Sydney, and is ecumenical fellow in canon law at the Venerable English College in Rome. He was elected a Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 2011 and appointed President of the European Consortium for Church and State Research in 2012. He is a qualified mediator and was a legal assessor to the Fitness to Practise Panel of the General Medical Council (2008-2015). He regularly publishes and lectures on matters of Church and State and was a contributing editor for Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law (2010).