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Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England

K.C., LL.B., Ph.D. (Lond.), M.A., LL.D. (Cantab.), Hon. LL.D. (Chicago), F.B.A.;

Interests

English legal history, especially in the early-modern period: history of the legal profession and the inns of court; legal manuscripts

CV / Biography

Barrister (Inner Temple and Gray's Inn), Honorary Bencher (Inner Temple and Gray's Inn);

Multimedia resources

Selected publications

 

Books

Sources of English Legal History: Public Law to 1750, 2024)

Reports from the Notebooks of Edward Coke, vols. I-V (1572-1600), 2022)

English Law Under Two Elizabeths: The Late Tudor Legal World and the Present (The Hamlyn Lectures), 2021)

An Introduction to English Legal History, 2019) 5th Edition

The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640, 2017)

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The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616, 2017)

Selected Readings and Commentaries on Magna Carta 1400-1604 , 2015)

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The Reports of William Dalison 1552-1558 , 2008)

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The English Legal Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps , 2008)

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A Catalogue of the Legal Manuscripts of Anthony Taussig (with A. Taussig), 2007)

Co-Author/s:
A. Taussig
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Reports from the Time of Henry VIII, 2004)

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Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century (with Samuel Thorne), 2000)

Co-Author/s:
Samuel Thorne
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ISBN 13:
9780854231638

The common law tradition : lawyers, books, and the law tradition, 2000)

Publisher:
ISBN:
1852851813
ISBN 13:
978-1852851811

A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library , 1996)

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Judicial Records, Law Reports, and the Growth of Case Law (ed), 1989)

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Legal Records and the Historian (ed), 1978)

English Legal Manuscripts (vol. 2), 1978)

English Legal Manuscripts (vol. 1), 1975)

Collected Papers on English Legal History, 2013)

The Men of Court 1440 to 1550: A Prosopograhy of the Inns of Court and Chancery and the Courts of Law, 2012)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
978-0-8377-3884-0

Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History, 2010) 2nd Edition

An Inner Temple miscellany: papers reprinted from the Inner Temple yearbook, 2004)

The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI, 2003)

The Legal Profession and the Common Law: Historical Essays, 2003)

Publisher:
ISBN:
0907628621
ISBN 13:
978-0907628620

An Introduction to English Legal History, 2002) 4th Edition

The Law's Two Bodies: Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History, 2001)

ISBN:
0199245185
ISBN 13:
978-0199245185

The Reports of John Caryll (Vols I & II) (ed), 1999)

Publisher:
ISBN:
0854231358
ISBN 13:
0854231404

Monuments of Endlesse Labours : English canonists and their work, 1300-1900, 1997)

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ISBN:
1852851678
ISBN 13:
978-1852851675

John Spelman's Reading on Quo Warranto: Lectures Delivered in Gray's Inn (Lent,1519), 1997)

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ISBN:
0 85423 219 2

Reports from the Lost Notebooks of Sir James Dyer (Vol 1 & 2) (ed), 1994)

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English Legal MSS in the USA (Part II), 1990)

Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court (Vol II) (with Samuel Thorne) (eds), 1990)

Co-Author/s:
Samuel Thorne
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Manual of Law French, 1990) 2nd Edition

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ISBN:
0859677451
ISBN 13:
978-0859677455

The Notebook of Sir John Port (ed), 1986)

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ISBN:
085423148X

English Legal MSS in the USA (Part I), 1985)

The Order of Serjeants at Law, 1984)

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The Reports of Sir John Spelman (Vols I & II) (ed), 1976)

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Articles

"David Yale" (2023) 21 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 425–43

Citation:
(2023) 21 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy 425–43
Published: Apr 2023

Book Chapters

"[1. The Common Law], [2. Law Reports and Records], 5. Criminal Justice, 9. [The Legal Profession]" in J. Baker and Y. Kasai (ed(s)), An Introduction to Common Law, 2024), pp. 20-43, 44-78, 194-221, 310-329

Pages:
20-43, 44-78, 194-221, 310-329
Published Apr 2024

"Magna Carta" in E. Balogh (ed(s)), Golden Bulls and Chartas: European Medieval Documents of Liberties, 2023), pp. 195-207

Pages:
195-207
Published Apr 2023

"Custom and Usage", Halsbury’s Laws of England 5th edn, 2023), pp. 1-111

Pages:
1-111
Published Apr 2023