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{{short description|English barrister}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix = <small>[[The Honourable</small>]]▼
| color = ▼
▲| honorific_prefix = <small>The Honourable</small>
| name = Michael Jacob Beloff
| honorific_suffix = <small>[[QueenKing's Counsel|QCKC]]</small>
| image = Michael Jacob Beloff Escutcheon.png
| birth_date =
| caption = Shield of arms<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dragonlore.co.uk/magazines/issue110.pdf |title=Dragonlore No. 110 |publisher=College of Dracology |accessdate=15 December 2021}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|04|18|df=y}}
| death_date =
| nationality = British
| occupation = Human rights [[Barristers in England and Wales|barrister]]
| alma_mater = [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]
| spouse = Judith Arkinstall (1969-present) =
| father = [[Max Beloff, Baron Beloff]]
| children = Rupert (b. 1973)<br />Natasha (b. 1976)
▲| color mother = Helen Dobrin
}}
'''Michael Jacob Beloff''', <small>[[QueenKing's Counsel|QCKC]]</small> (born 18 April 1942)<ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-18.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120420122229/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-18.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 April 2012 |publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=14 April 2014|date=18 April 2012|quote=the Hon Michael Beloff, QC, President of Trinity College, Oxford, 1996–2006, 70}}</ref> is an English [[barrister]] and arbitrator. A member of [[Blackstone Chambers]], he practises in a number of areas including [[human rights]], [[administrative law]] and sports law.
 
== Career ==
Beloff is the son of the historian [[Max Beloff, Baron Beloff]], and is therefore by courtesytechnically styled 'the Honourable', a courtesy title he habitually uses. His mother was Helen Dobrin. He was educated at the [[Dragon School]], and [[Eton College|Eton]] and, read Historyhistory at [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], and was President of the [[Oxford Union|Union]]. AsWhen he was President of the Union hein 1963 the Union passed a resolution in 1963 to allow women to have full membership for the first time.
 
He was [[called to the Bar]] at [[Gray's Inn]], where he later became a [[Bencher]] and was the Treasurer for 2008. He is the founder of a student prize at the Inn awarded for an essay on administrative law.<ref name="Gray's Inn 2014">{{cite web | title=Gray's Inn | website=Gray's Inn | date=June 25, 2014 | url=https://www.graysinn.org.uk/grays-inn | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref>
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From 1995 until 2014 he was a member of the [[Jersey Court of Appeal]] and the Guernsey Court of Appeal and senior ordinary appeal Judge for six years. He sits on the [[Court of Arbitration for Sport]] (CAS), which deals with disputes including doping offences on behalf of the [[International Olympic Committee]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Berlins|first=Marcel|title=Not strictly academic|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/18/law.highereducation|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 June 2002}}</ref> He has also chaired the ethics commission of the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF), including investigations into IAAF treasurer [[Valentin Balakhnichev]] and Papa Massata Diack, son of IAAF president [[Lamine Diack]].<ref name="Gibson 2014">{{cite web | last=Gibson | first=Owen | website=the Guardian | date=December 13, 2014 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2014/dec/13/iaaf-crisis-drugs-allegations-athletics |title=Crisis at IAAF that threatens to bring athletics to its knees | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref>
 
He served aswas President of [[Trinity College, Oxford]], from 1996 to 2006 and was, succeeded by [[Ivor Roberts (ambassador)|Ivor Roberts]]. Trinity College now awards a Michael and Judith Beloff Scholarship endowed by Michael.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/pages/admissions/grants-and-scholarships.php |title=Grants and Scholarships |website=Trinity College, Oxford |access-date=2012-11-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023013149/http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/pages/admissions/grants-and-scholarships.php |archive-date=2012-10-23 }}</ref> Trinity College's debating society also runs the annual Michael Beloff After-Dinner Speaking Competition, open to members of the college.
 
==Personal lifeSources==
Michael Beloff married Judith Arkinstall in 1969. They have two children: Rupert (b. 1973) and Natasha (b. 1976). {{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
 
== Sources ==
{{Portal|Law}}
* [https://archive.today/20121223035747/http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/members/profile.phtml?lecturer_code=beloffm Brief CV, Oxford University Faculty of Law website]
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120218132407/http://www.blackstonechambers.com/people/barristers/michael_beloff_qc.html Blackstone Chambers Profile of Michael Beloff]
 
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