dji22@cam.ac.uk
Faculty Contact Details
Room: S14
Tel: 330022
Professor of Civil Law (Regius)
Research centres and interest groups
Publications
Books
English Legal History and its Sources (with N Jones and N Ramsay) (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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ISBN 13:
978-1-108-48306-3
Published Jul 2019
Limitation and Prescription: A Comparative Legal History (with H Dondorp and E Schrage) (Duncker & Humblot, 2019)
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ISBN 13:
978-3-428-15626-9
Published Jul 2019
Law and Legal Process: Substantive Law and Procedure in English Legal History (with Dr Matt Dyson) (eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
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ISBN:
1107040582
ISBN 13:
978-1107040588
Published Aug 2013
European Legal Development: The Case of Tort (with J Bell) (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (English section) (ed) (OUP, 2009)
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Published Sep 2009
Sir William Jones, Essay on the Law of Bailments (ed) (Welsh Legal History Society, 2007)
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Published Nov 2007
Common Law and Ius Commune (Selden Society, 2001)
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Published Sep 2001
A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations (OUP, 1999)
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ISBN:
019876412X
ISBN 13:
978-0198764120
Published Dec 1999
The Roman Law Tradition (ed) (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
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ISBN:
0521441994
ISBN 13:
9780521441995
Published Aug 1994
Articles
"The Requirement of a Deed in the Action of Covenant" (2021) 42 Jnl Leg Hist 233
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(2021) 42 Jnl Leg Hist 233
Published: Nov 2021
"The Renaissance of English Legal History" [2021] CLJ s91
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[2021] CLJ s91
Published: Sep 2021
"Milsom's Legal History" [2017] CLJ 360
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[2017] CLJ 360
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197317000241
Published: Jul 2017
"English Legal History 1999-2011: A Select Bibliography" (2012) 34 Zeitschrift fur Neuere Rechtsgeschichte 263-272
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(2012) 34 Zeitschrift fur Neuere Rechtsgeschichte 263-272
Published: Jul 2013
"The Challenges of Comparative Legal History" (2013) 1 Comparative Legal History 1
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(2013) 1 Comparative Legal History 1
Published: Jul 2013
"Athletics in Ancient Law" (2012) 12 (2) Legal Information Management 98-101
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(2012) 12 (2) Legal Information Management 98-101
Published: Jul 2012
"More Grief on Uncertain Causation in Tort" [2-11] CLJ 451
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[2-11] CLJ 451
Published: Nov 2011
"Law and Custom: Insurance in Sixteenth-Century England" [2008] Jnl Leg Hist 292
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[2008] Jnl Leg Hist 292
Published: Sep 2009
"English Legal Periodicals, 1820-1870" (2006) Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte 175
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(2006) Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte 175
Published: Sep 2006
"English Law and the European Ius Commune 1450-1650" [2006] Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 115
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[2006] Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 115
Published: Sep 2006
"Historical Reflections on the Compensation Culture’" 1 Journal of Law 100
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1 Journal of Law 100
Published: Sep 2005
"Wrongs and Responsibility in Pre-Roman Law" (2004) 25 Journal of Legal History 99
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(2004) 25 Journal of Legal History 99
Published: Sep 2004
"How the Romans did for Us: Ancient Roots of the Tort of Negligence" (2003) 26 University of New South Wales Law Journal 475
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(2003) 26 University of New South Wales Law Journal 475
Published: Sep 2003
"Sir William Jones" (2001) 7 Trans Hon Soc Cymmrodorion 66-82
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(2001) 7 Trans Hon Soc Cymmrodorion 66-82
Published: Sep 2001
"Natural Law and Common Law" (2001) 5 Edinburgh Law Review 4
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(2001) 5 Edinburgh Law Review 4
Published: Sep 2001
"Legal Printing and Legal Doctrine" (2000) 35 Irish Jurist 345
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(2000) 35 Irish Jurist 345
Published: Sep 2000
"'The Law of Business Rome’: Foundations of the Anglo-American Tort of Negligence’" [1999] Current Legal Problems 74
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[1999] Current Legal Problems 74
Published: Sep 1999
"Fault and Absolute Liability in Pre-Modern Contract Law" (1997) 18 Journal of Legal History 1
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(1997) 18 Journal of Legal History 1
Published: Sep 1997
"Coventry’s Reports" (1995) 16 Journal of Legal History 281
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(1995) 16 Journal of Legal History 281
Published: Sep 1995
"From Property to Contract: The Transformation of Sale in the Middle Ages’" (1992) 13 Journal of Legal History 1
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(1992) 13 Journal of Legal History 1
Published: Sep 1992
"Sale of Goods in the Fourteenth Century" (1991) 107 Law Quarterly Review 480
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(1991) 107 Law Quarterly Review 480
Published: Sep 1991
"Common Lawyers and the Law before the Civil War" (1988) 8 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 142
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(1988) 8 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 142
Published: Sep 1988
"Implied Contracts and Restitution" (1988) 8 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 312
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(1988) 8 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 312
Published: Sep 1988
"Words and Deeds: the Action of Covenant in the Reign of Edward I" (1986) 4 Law and History Review 71
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(1986) 4 Law and History Review 71
Published: Sep 1986
"Law, Religion and Revolution in the Twelfth Century" (1986) 6 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 137
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(1986) 6 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 137
Published: Sep 1986
"Sixteenth Century Contract Law: Slade’s Case in Context" (1984) 4 OJLS 295
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(1984) 4 OJLS 295
Published: Sep 1984
"Mental Element for Complicity" (1982) 2 OJLS 287
"Assumpsit and Debt in the Early Sixteenth Century" [1982] CLJ 142
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[1982] CLJ 142
Published: Sep 1982
Book Chapters
"Writing, Speaking and the Roman Stipulatio" in B Spagnolo, J Sampson (ed(s)), Principle and Pragmatism in Roman Law (Hart, 2020), pp. 99-115
"Development in Common Law" in E Bant, K Barker, S Degeling (ed(s)), Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (Edward Elgar, 2020), pp. 28-40
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28-40
ISBN 13:
978-1-78811-425-7
Published Sep 2020
"Introduction" (with H Dondorp, E Schrage) in D Ibbetson, H Dondorp, E Schrage (ed(s)), Limitation and Prescription: a Comparative Legal History (Duncker & Humblot, 2019)
"Limitation and Prescription in Early-Modern England" in D Ibbetson, H Dondorp, E Schrage (ed(s)), Limitation and Prescription: a Comparative Legal History (Duncker & Humblot, 2019)
"Arbitration before 1996" (with J Kelsoe) in H Puschmann (ed(s)), Challenges in Arbitration (Butterworths, 2019)
"Unjust Enrichment and Lord Mansfield" in M Schermaier, H Dondorp, B Sirks (ed(s)), De Rebus Divinis et Humanis (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019)
"Errores in Camera Scaccarii" in D Ibbetson, N Jones, N Ramsay (ed(s)), English Legal History and its Sources (Cambridg University Press, 2019)
"Revolutions in Private Law" in S Worthington, G Virgo, A Robinson (ed(s)), Revolution and Evolution in Private Law (Hart, 2018)
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Published Jul 2018
"Natural Law in Early-Modern Legal Thought" in M Godfrey, H Pihlajamäki, and M Dubber (ed(s)), Oxford Handbook of European Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2018)
"William Warwick Buckland on the Lex Aquilia" in P Du Plessis (ed(s)), Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law: British Perspectives (Edinburgh University Press, 2018)
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Published Jul 2018
"Edward Coke, Roman Law, and the Law of Libel" in L Hutson (ed(s)), Oxford Handbook to English Law and Literature, 1500-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2017)
"Obligatio in Roman Law and Society" in P Du Plessis, C Ando, K Tuori (ed(s)), Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (Oxford University Press, 2016)
"Authority and Precedent" in M Godfrey (ed(s)), Law and Authority in British Legal History (CUP, 2016)
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Published Apr 2016
"Humanism and Law in Elizabethan England: the Annotations of Gabriel Harvey" in P Du Plessis (ed(s)), Reassessing Legal Humanism (Edinburgh UP, 2016)
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Published Mar 2016
"The Arguments in Calvin's Case", Studies in Canon Law and Common Law in Honor of R H Helmholz (Robbins Collection, 2015), pp. 213-230
"Sources of Law from the Republic to the Dominate", Cambridge Companion to Roman Law (CUP, 2015), pp. 25-44
"Pleading Defences in Tort: The Historical Perspective" in A Dyson et al (ed(s)), Defences in Tort (Hart, 2015)
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Published Jan 2015
"Iniuria, Roman and English" (with E Descheemaeker and H Scott), Iniuria and the Common Law (Hart, 2013), pp. 33-48
"The Dating of the Lex Aquilia" (with A Burrows, D Johnston, R Zimmermann), Judge and Jurist (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 167-177
"The Assessment of Contractual Damages at Common Law in the Late Sixteenth Century" (with M Dyson and D Ibbetson), Law and legal Process (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 126-147
"Civilian and Canonist Influence on the Writ Cessavit per Biennium" (with S Jenks, J Rose, C Whittick), Laws, Lawyers and Texts (Brill, 2012), pp. 87-100
"The Earl of Oxford's Case (1615)" (with C Mitchell and P Mitchell), Landmark Cases in Equity (Hart, 2012), pp. 1-32
"Comparative Legal History: A Methodology" (with Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings), Making Legal History (CUP, 2012), pp. 131-145
"The Misbehaving Judge: Two Footnotes" (with H Dondorp, J Hallebeek, T Wallinga, L Winkel), Ius Romanum - Ius Hodiernum - Ius Commune (Scientia Verlag, 2010), pp. 209-224
"The Tort of Negligence in England" (with N Jansen), The Development and Making of Legal Doctrine (CUP, 2010), pp. 46-72
"Elizabethan Revenue Law: The Practice of the Court of Wards" (with J Tiley), Studies in the History of Tax Law, IV (Hart, 2010), pp. 107-120
"George v Skivington (1869)" (with C Mitchell and P Mitchell), Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (Hart, 2010), pp. 69-94
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69-94
ISBN 13:
978-1-84946-003-3
Published Mar 2010
"Common Law Evolution: the Influence of Mixed Legal Systems" (with H MacQueen), Stair Miscellany VI (The Stair Society, 2009), pp. 267-282
"Coggs v Barnard (1703)" (with C Mitchell and P Mitchell), Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (Hart Publishing, 2008), pp. 1ff
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Pages:
1ff
ISBN 13:
9781841137599
Published Sep 2008
"Introduction" (with E J H Schrage), Ius Quaesitum Tertio (Duncker & Humblot Gmbh, 2008), pp. 1ff
"Privity of Contract between Dutton v Poole and Tweddle v Atkinson" (with E J H Schrage), Ius Quaesitum Tertio (Duncker & Humblot Gmbh, 2008)
"English Law" (with J Hallebeek and H Dondorp), Contracts for a Third Party Beneficiary (Brill, 2008)
"Custom in Medieval Law" (with J Murphy and A Perreau-Saussine), The Nature of Customary Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 151ff
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Pages:
151ff
ISBN 13:
978-0521115568
Published Sep 2007
"Lamplugh v Braithwaite (1615)" (with C Mitchell and P Mitchell), Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution (Hart Publishing, 2006), pp. 1ff
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Pages:
1ff
ISBN 13:
978-1841135885
Published Sep 2006
"Sir William Jones and the Nature of Law" (with A Burrows and Lord Rodger), Mapping the Law (OUP, 2006), pp. 619ff
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Pages:
619ff
ISBN 13:
978-0199206551
Published Sep 2006
"High Classical Law" (with A Bowman), The Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 12, 2005), pp. 184ff
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184ff
Published Sep 2005
"Custom in the Tripartitum" (with M Rady), Custom and Law in Central Europe, 2004), pp. 1ff
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1ff
ISBN 13:
978-0954686901
Published Sep 2004
"What is Legal History a History of?" (with A Lewis and M Lobban), Law and History (OUP, 2004), pp. 33ff
"Hermann Kantorowicz and Walter Ullmann" (with J Beatson and R Zimmermann), Jurists Uprooted (OUP, 2004), pp. 269
"Historical Research in Law" (with P Cane and M Tushnet), Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (OUP, 2003), pp. 863ff
"Case-Law and Doctrine" (with R Schulze and M Selb), Richterrecht und Rechtsfortbildung in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, 2003)
Published Sep 2003
"Harmonisation of the Law of Tort and Delict" (with R Zimmermann), Grundstrukturen des Europäischen Deliktsrechts, 2003), pp. 83ff
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83ff
Published Sep 2003
"The Tort of Negligence in the Common Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" (with E J H Schrage), Negligence (Duncker & Humblot Gmbh, 2001), pp. 229ff
"Ghosts of the Past and the English Common Law" (with A Wijffels), History in Court (Ius Deco, 2001), pp. 111ff
"Unjust Enrichment in English Law" (with E J H Schrage), Unjust Enrichment and the Law of Contract (Kluwer Law International, 2001), pp. 33ff
"Legal Teaching and the History of the Law of Obligations" (with D Heirbaut and D Lambrecht), Iuris Scripta Historica XIV, 2000), pp. 29ff
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29ff
Published Sep 2000
"Charles Viner and his Chair: Legal Education in Eighteenth-Century Oxford" (with J Bush and A Wijffels), Learning the Law (Hambledon Continuum, 1999), pp. 315ff
"Sir William Jones as a Comparative Lawyer" (with A Murray), Sir William Jones, 1746-94, 1998), pp. 19ff
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19ff
Published Sep 1998
"Reply to Professor Zimmermann" (with T G Watkin), The Europeanisation of Law (British Institute for International & Comparative Law, 1998), pp. 224ff
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224ff
ISBN 13:
978-0904281132
Published Sep 1998
"Report and Record in the Early-Modern Common Law" (with A Wijffels), Case Law in the Making (Duncker & Humblot Gmbh, 1997), pp. 1.55ff, 2.27ff
"The Techniques and Methods of Judicial Records and Law Reports" (with A Wijffels), Case Law in the Making (Duncker & Humblot Gmbh, 1997), pp. 13ff
"Case-Law and Judicial Precedents in Mediaeval and Early-Modern England" (with S Dauchy), Auctoritates: Xenia R C van Caenegem Oblata, 1997), pp. 55ff
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55ff
Published Sep 1997
"Absolute Liabilty in Contract: the Antecedents of Paradine v. Jayne" (with F D Rose), Consensus ad Idem, 1996), pp. 1ff
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1ff
Published Sep 1996
"Juge et Jury dans le Common Law Anglais" (with R Jacob), Le Juge et le Jugement dans les Traditions Juridiques Européennes, 1996), pp. 89ff
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89ff
Published Sep 1996
"Unjust Enrichment in England before 1600" (with E J H Schrage), Unjust Enrichment, 1995), pp. 121ff
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121ff
Published Sep 1995
"The Danger of Definition: Contrectatio and Appropriation" (with D J Ibbetson and A D E Lewis), The Roman Law Tradition, 1994), pp. 54ff
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54ff
Published Sep 1994
"The Roman Law Tradition" (with D J Ibbetson and A D E Lewis), The Roman Law Tradition, 1994)
Published Sep 1994
"Consideration and the Theory of Contract" (with J L Barton), Towards a General Law of Contract, 1990), pp. 67ff
Pages:
67ff
Published Sep 1990