Professor Sir John H Baker
- Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England
Contact
About
Barrister (Inner Temple and Gray's Inn), Honorary Bencher (Inner Temple and Gray's Inn);
- Full bibliography in the Eminent Scholars Archive
Multimedia resources
- The Early History of the English Bar (Inner Temple, 20 March 2026)
- Sovereignty of Parliament and Legal History (2026 Bentham Association Presidential Address)
- The Royal Prerogative and the Judges (The Lord Judge Memorial Lecture in Legal History, 2024)
- The Elizabethan Middle Temple and the Rule of Law (Middle Temple Treasurer's Lecture, 2024)
- Treasures from the Inner Temple Library (Inner Temple 2023)
- John Selden: 'Liberty above all Things' (Temple Church 2022)
- Law in Time of Plague (Inner Temple 2021)
- YouTube Videos from www.reconstitution.org.uk.
- Maccabaean lecture in Jurisprudence (British Academy, November 2009)
Research
English legal history, especially in the early-modern period: history of the legal profession and the inns of court; legal manuscripts
Publications
Selected publications
Reports from the Notebooks of Edward Coke, vols. I-VIII (1572-1616)
Book
1 July 2025
Selden Society
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[1. The Common Law], [2. Law Reports and Records], 5. Criminal Justice, 9. [The Legal Profession]
Chapter
1 April 2024
In An Introduction to Common Law (eds J. Baker and Y. Kasai)
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Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750
Book
1 February 2024
Oxford University Press
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Magna Carta
Chapter
1 April 2023
In Golden Bulls and Chartas: European Medieval Documents of Liberties (eds E. Balogh)
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Custom and Usage
Chapter
1 April 2023
In Halsbury’s Laws of England 5th edn
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David Yale
Journal article
1 April 2023
(2023) 21 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 425–43
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English Law Under Two Elizabeths: The Late Tudor Legal World and the Present (The Hamlyn Lectures)
Book
1 January 2021
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An Introduction to English Legal History
Book
1 June 2019
Oxford University Press
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The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640
Book
1 July 2017
Selden Society
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The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616
Book
1 February 2017
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