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'''Michael Jacob Beloff''', <small>[[Queen's Counsel|QC]]</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 |publisher=The Telegraph|accessdate=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]] and, [[administrative law]] and sports law.
 
== Career ==
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The term [[Plate glass university]] stems from the title of his book "The Plateglass Universities" (1970).<ref name="Beloff 1970">{{cite book | last=Beloff | first=Michael | title=The plateglass universities | publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | publication-place=Rutherford N.J | year=1970 | isbn=978-0-8386-7550-2}}</ref>
 
SinceFrom 1995 heuntil has2014 he beenwas 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>Gibson, Owen (2014-12-13).</ref><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 | access-date=January 15, 2018}}</ref>
 
He served as 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=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-11-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023013149/http://www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/pages/admissions/grants-and-scholarships.php |archivedate=2012-10-23 |df= }}</ref> Trinity College's debating society also runs the annual Michael Beloff After-Dinner Speaking Competition, open to members of the college. He represented [[Fulham F.C.|Fulham]] in the Independent Arbitration Panel for the case [[Sheffield United F.C.|Sheffield United]] v [[FA Premier League]]. On 3 July 2007, the panel dismissed the claim by Fulham F.C. and Sheffield United F.C.
 
==Personal life==