Julie Maxton
HeLEX Advisory Board Member
Dr Julie Maxton is the Executive Director of the Royal Society, whose current President is the Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse.
Before taking up her position at the Royal Society in 2011 Julie was Registrar at the University of Oxford where she is an Honorary Fellow of University College. Originally trained as a barrister at the Middle Temple Julie combined a career as a practising lawyer with that of an academic, holding a number of senior academic positions, including those of Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Julie is the author of numerous articles concerned with trusts, equity, commercial and property law. She is a Bencher at the Middle Temple.
