William J. L. Blair
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William James Lynton Blair (born March 31, 1950) is a British QC and domestic and international banking and finance law specialist. He is the elder brother of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Blair was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was awarded a BA in 1971. He was called to the Bar (Lincoln's Inn) in 1972.
He is a specialist in domestic and international banking and finance law.
He is Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics (1994-) and at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London (1999-). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (1997), and an academic adviser to the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (1999-). He is a Recorder of the Crown Court (1998-), a Deputy High Court Judge (2003-), and has been admitted as a Barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the Virgin Islands (2003). Since 2001 he has served, part-time, as Chairman of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal (Finsmat), and from 2003 until 2005 he was Chairman of the Commercial Bar Association (Combar). He is Chairman of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association (2004-) and of the Qatar Financial Centre Appeals Body (2006-).
He has edited or contributed to a number of publications: co-editor of the Encyclopaedia of Banking Law, Butterworths, London, (available online), co-author of Banking and Financial Services Regulation (3rd edition), Butterworths, London, 2002, editor of Banks and Remedies, LLP, London, 1999, general editor of Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Precedents of Pleadings, 14th edition (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2001), editor of Banks, Liability and Risk, 3rd edition, (LLP, London, 2001).
