Right - if someone drafts a letter from the denizens of the Law forum asking him to come back, I'll happily print it and post it to his college address.
That would be hilarious but you would have to act fast
Oxford uni website
John Gardner - will be on current leave from February 2008 to October 2008.
I think you should get Laura to send it. More chance of success that way. She doesn't have to be a signatory if she doesn't want to be; but it will mean more coming from her, I imagine.
I probably would have signed, yet i don't remember the 'famous professor'...Or perhaps he simply was before my time .... Either way I'd personally be a sycophantic hypocrite if I did do so...Hence my pious abstinence