Anthony Julius

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Dr. Anthony Julius (born 1956) is a prominent British lawyer and academic, best known for his actions on behalf of Diana, Princess of Wales and Deborah Lipstadt. He is currently a senior consultant for London law firm, Mishcon de Reya.

1 Life
2 Activities
3 Selected publications
4 External links

[edit] Life

The son of a successful London textile merchant, he was educated at the City of London School. His father died young of a brain tumour. Julius studied English literature at Jesus College, Cambridge graduating in 1977 with a First class degree and completed a PhD in English literature at University College London under the novelist and academic, Dan Jacobson. He joined Mishcon de Reya, a Bloomsbury law firm in 1981 becoming a partner in 1984. Currently he is a senior consultant to that firm.

He married in 1979 and had four children with his first wife (Max, Laura, Chloë and Theo). In 1997, while defending Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch, he met his client's daughter, Journalist Dina Rabinovitch and subsequently married her. They have one son together.

[edit] Activities

He was selected by Princess Diana as her legal representative in her divorce from Prince Charles.

He represented Deborah Lipstadt, successfully defending her, with Richard Rampton QC, against a libel suit brought against her by Holocaust-denier David Irving.

Julius is a commercial litigator. He is a specialist in the fields of defamation, international trade disputes, and media law. He recently became a solicitor-advocate, which allows him to act as a barrister in so far as he can now appear in the High Court and the Court of Appeal.

He has written a number of books on various topics, including his PhD thesis which discussed the anti-semitism of T. S. Eliot. He has been a part-time lecturer at the Law Faculty of University College London. He is Vice-President of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, and was one of the charity's founders and its first Chairman. He is Chairman of the London Consortium and a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London.

It was announced on August 8, 2006 that he will be representing Heather Mills McCartney in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney, who is said to be worth over £1 billion. It has been alleged that Mills McCartney could be awarded as much as a quarter of his fortune, although a settlement in the region of £25 million is more realistic.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Selected publications

TS Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form (1st edition - CUP 1995, 2nd edition Thames Hudson 2003) PhD thesis.
Idolising Pictures (Thames Hudson 2000).
Transgressions: The Offences of Art (Thames Hudson 2002).
"Art Crimes," in Law and Literature (Oxford University Press, 1999) and in *Art, Copyright and Culture, Dear Images, (Ridinghouse, 2003).