We are deeply saddened by the death, on 24 October, of Gordon Woodman, professor of law at Birmingham University. Prof. Woodman, among other things, was an expert on law in Africa, especially in Ghana, and on the legal situation of Africans in the UK. He participated in workshops at the IISL and his work was published within the Oñati International Series in Law and Society (Hart-Bloomsbury); for example, in M.C. Foblets and T.