astronomy

John Armour

John Armour is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand John Armour rather than just read about it. In short: John Hamish Armour, (born 24 December 1971) is a British legal scholar. Since 2007, he has been Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

Key takeaways

John Armour belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect John Armour to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of John Armour from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

John Hamish Armour, (born 24 December 1971) is a British legal scholar. Since 2007, he has been Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Nottingham and at the University of Cambridge, where he was also a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. From 2023 he has been dean of the Faculty of Law.

Early life and education Armour was born on 24 December 1971 in Nottingham, England. He studied law at Pembroke College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1994, later promoted to Master of Arts (MA Oxon) as per tradition, and a post-graduate Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) degree in 1995. He then attended Yale Law School where he completed a Master of Laws (LLM) degree.

Academic career From 1996 to 2000, Armour was a lecturer in law at the University of Nottingham. In addition, between 1999 and 2000, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge. From 2000 to 2001, he was the Norton Rose Lecturer in Corporate and Financial Law at Nottingham. In 2001, Armour moved to the University of Cambridge. He was a senior research fellow from 2001 to 2002. He was then a lecturer in law from 2002 to 2005 and, having been promoted, was a senior lecturer from 2005 to 2007. During his time at Cambridge, he was also a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 2007, Armour moved to the University of Oxford. On 1 July 2007, he became the first Lovells Professor of Law and Finance. That year, he was also elected a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. In 2011, the chair was renamed as the Hogan Lovells Professorship of Law and Finance. Armour has held a number of visiting academic appointments, including Visiting Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School and Visiting Scholar at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics of the University of Chicago.

Personal life In 2007, Armour married Rebecca Ann Williams, Professor of Public and Criminal Law at Oxford. They have two daughters and a son.

Honours In July 2017, Armour was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Works Kraakman, Reinier; Armour, John; Davies, Paul; Enriques, Luca; Hansmann, Henry B.; Hertig, Gérard; Hopt, Klaus J.; Kanda, Hideki; Rock, Edward B. (2009). The Anatomy of Corporate Law: A Comparative and Functional Approach (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199565849.

References ARMOUR, Prof. John Hamish, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with John Armour

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what John Armour claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to John Armour before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about John Armour ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of John Armour

In research: John Armour appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses John Armour in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: John Armour is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1971 births, AI legal scholars, Academics of the University of Cambridge, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for John Armour outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study John Armour in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what John Armour means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain John Armour out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does John Armour matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study John Armour?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on John Armour.