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Margaretha (Margot) Horspool (born 1938) is a British jurist specialising in the law of the European Union. She is Emeritus Professor of European and Comparative Law at the University of Surrey and Professorial Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Originally trained as an interpreter, she interpreted at the highest inter-governmental levels for many years.

She was born Margaretha van den Boogert in The Hague in 1938. Her father was a medical doctor. She trained as an interpreter and became an interpreter for the European Coal and Steel Community. She was one of the interpreters for the Van Gend en Loos case, a landmark case of the European Court of Justice.

In 1964 she married Christopher Horspool, a British lawyer whom she had met while he was on a legal scholarship in Luxembourg, moved to the United Kingdom and became a British citizen, being required under the Law of the Netherlands to renounce her Dutch citizenship in the process. She rose to the top of her profession and was a regular interpreter for British Prime Ministers and Government Ministers as well as interpreting for courts, arbitrations and business events.

Her career took a new turn when she took a law degree at King's College London. She was appointed to a lectureship at University College London where as Director of European Legal Studies she created a network of links with leading European universities and was responsible for the four-year degree in Law involving a foreign law or European law component in addition to the standard three-year degree in English law. While at UCL she also taught at the University of Notre Dame. She was principal author of the standard work European Union Law, published by Oxford University Press, now in its ninth edition. She was appointed Professor of European and Comparative Law at the University of Surrey, and following her retirement became a Professorial Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London.