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	text:  larger  smaller		Stephen Cretney Retired: Formerly Senior Research Fellow at All Souls  Stephen Cretney FBA QC is an Emeritus Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. After Practice as a solicitor in the City he became an academic lawyer, with appointments in Kenya, Southampton and as a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Exeter College Oxford. As a Law Commissioner from 1978 to 1983 he was responsible for the Commission's family law programme. On leaving the Commission he became Professor and Dean of the Faculty of law at Bristol University and in 1993 was elected Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College. He has served on a number of official committees dealing with the prison system, the administration of Family Law, judicial training and legal education. Subject groups : Legal History All | Recent | Selected Publications    sorted by selection | sort by year S M Cretney, Family Law in the Twentieth Century: A History (OUP 2005) S M Cretney, 'Sir John Withers MP: The Solicitor in Private Practice and Public Life in England between the Wars' (2007) 66(1) Cambridge Law Journal 200-227 DOI: 10.1017/S0008197307000086 ISBN: 1469-2139 S M Cretney, Same Sex Relationships, From 'Odious Crime' to 'Gay Marriage' (OUP 2006) S M Cretney, 'The Literature of Family Law' (2005) 40 Irish Jurist 17-41 Link to All Souls College