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Professor Adam Tomkins is a British legal scholar and John Millar Professor of Public Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. Until 2015 Tomkins was constitutional advisor to the House of Lords Constitution Committee. From 2015 he has acted as constitutional advisor to the Scotland Office and Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell. Tomkins is a Scottish Conservative politician who is standing for election to the Scottish Parliament in 2016. ==Academia== Tomkins was educated at the University of East Anglia (LL.B.) and the London School of Economics (LL.M.).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.oxfordintellect.com/faculty_tomkins.html )〕 He taught at the School of Law of King's College London between 1991 and 2000 and became a fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford in 2000, before being elected to the John Millar Chair of Law at Glasgow in 2003.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/law/staff/adamtomkins/#/biography )〕 His research interests lie in constitutional theory and history, British, EU and comparative constitutional law, and republicanism.〔 Professor Tomkins has published seven books〔 in the areas of constitutional, administrative and European Union law, including two, ''Public Law'' (2003) and ''British Government and the Constitution'' (2007, with Colin Turpin), which are amongst the most widely used by law students in the United Kingdom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.ampersandstable.com/evoke/who/Professor-Adam-Tomkins/view )〕 Professor Tomkins was a supporter of the group, Republic, a British republican organisation advocating the replacement of the monarchy with a democratically elected head of state,〔https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/scotland/2004/10/298867.html〕 Tomkins published ''Our Republican Constitution'', a republican re-interpretation of the United Kingdom's constitution〔 which claims that the constitution is deeply influenced by republican principles, despite its monarchic nature.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=270763 )〕 Professor Tomkins has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Toronto, Queensland and New South Wales and the Australian National University, and has lectured throughout the world.〔 In April 2009, Professor Tomkins became associated with Ampersand, a stable at the Faculty of Advocates, as part of its ''Ampersand Academics'' link between practitioners and academics. Professor Douglas Brodie, former head of the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh, has also joined this project. In the summer of 2009 he was appointed legal adviser to the House of Lords Constitution Committee. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adam Tomkins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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