Overview
Ian
Forrester
President
Ian Forrester has been a practitioner, author, academic teacher and judge. He studied and trained in Scotland, Louisiana, New York and Brussels. He was admitted to the bar in Scotland, New York, En ...
Scotland
Royaume-Uni
Individual
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Brexit law
European law
About
Ian Forrester has been a practitioner, author, academic teacher and judge. He studied and trained in Scotland, Louisiana, New York and Brussels. He was admitted to the bar in Scotland, New York, England and Wales, and Brussels. After professional experience with Maclay Murray and Spens in Glasgow, Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels, he cofounded Forrester & Norall, subsequently Forrester Norall & Sutton, which merged with White & Case in 1998. He was nominated in 2015 by the government of the UK to become the judge from the UK on the General Court of the European Union. That mandate ended with Brexit in 2020.
He is the President of the Franco British Lawyers Society.
Professional History
Forrester Norall & Sutton
Cofounder
1981
1998
White & Case LLP
Partner
1998
2015
General Court of the European Union
Judge
2015
2020
Faculty of Advocates, Edinburgh
King's Counsel at the Scots Bar
2021
present
Education
University of Glasgow
MA LLB LLD honoris causa
1963
present
Tulane Law School, New Orleans
MCL
1968
1969