Beloff is the son of the historian
Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, and is therefore technically styled 'the Honourable', a courtesy title he habitually uses. His mother was Helen Dobrin. He was educated at the
Dragon School and
Eton College (under scholarship), read history at
Magdalen College, Oxford, and was President of the
Oxford Union. When he was President of the Union in 1963 the Union passed a resolution 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. The term
Plate glass university stems from the title of his book
The Plateglass Universities (1970). 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. 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. He was President of
Trinity College, Oxford, from 1996 to 2006, succeeded by
Ivor Roberts. Trinity College now awards a Michael and Judith Beloff Scholarship. Trinity College's debating society also runs the annual Michael Beloff After-Dinner Speaking Competition, open to members of the college. ==Sources==