jhb16@cam.ac.uk
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);
- Full bibliography in the Eminent Scholars Archive
Multimedia resources
- 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.
- British Academy: Maccabaean lecture in Jurisprudence (November 2009)
Publications
Books
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) (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
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1108837964
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9781108837965
Published Jan 2021
An Introduction to English Legal History (OUP, 2019) 5th Edition
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Published Jun 2019
The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640 (Selden Society, 2017)
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Published Jul 2017
The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616 (CUP, 2017)
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Published Feb 2017
Selected Readings and Commentaries on Magna Carta 1400-1604 (Selden Society (v. 132), 2015)
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Published Jul 2015
Collected Papers on English Legal History (CUP, 2013)
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ISBN 13:
9781107020436
Published Oct 2013
The Men of Court 1440 to 1550: A Prosopograhy of the Inns of Court and Chancery and the Courts of Law (The Selden Society, 2012)
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ISBN 13:
978-0-8377-3884-0
Published Jul 2012
Baker and Milsom's Sources of English Legal History (OUP, 2010) 2nd Edition
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ISBN 13:
978-0-19-954680-0
Published May 2010
The Reports of William Dalison 1552-1558 (Selden Society (v. 124), 2008)
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Published Jul 2008
The English Legal Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps (Selden Society, 2008)
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Published Feb 2008
A Catalogue of the Legal Manuscripts of Anthony Taussig (with A. Taussig) (Selden Society, 2007)
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Published Jul 2007
Reports from the Time of Henry VIII (Selden Society (v. 120-121), 2004)
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Published Mar 2004
An Inner Temple miscellany: papers reprinted from the Inner Temple yearbook (Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, 2004)
Published Mar 2004
The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI (OUP, 2003)
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ISBN 13:
978-0-19-825817-9
Published Sep 2003
The Legal Profession and the Common Law: Historical Essays (Hambledon & London, 2003)
An Introduction to English Legal History (OUP, 2002) 4th Edition
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ISBN 13:
978-0-40-693053-8
Published May 2002
The Law's Two Bodies: Some Evidential Problems in English Legal History (OUP, 2001)
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ISBN:
0199245185
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978-0199245185
Published Jul 2001
Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court in the Fifteenth Century (with Samuel Thorne) (Selden Society (v. 105), 2000)
The common law tradition : lawyers, books, and the law tradition (Hambledon Press, 2000)
The Reports of John Caryll (Vols I & II) (ed) (Selden Society (v. 115-116), 1999)
Monuments of Endlesse Labours : English canonists and their work, 1300-1900 (Hambledon Continuum, 1997)
John Spelman's Reading on Quo Warranto: Lectures Delivered in Gray's Inn (Lent,1519) (Selden Society (v. 113), 1997)
A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (Boydell Press, 1996)
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Published Jul 1996
Reports from the Lost Notebooks of Sir James Dyer (Vol 1 & 2) (ed) (Selden Society (v. 109-110), 1994)
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Published Mar 1994
Manual of Law French (Scolar Press, 1990) 2nd Edition
English Legal MSS in the USA (Part II), 1990)
Published Mar 1990
Readings and Moots at the Inns of Court (Vol II) (with Samuel Thorne) (eds) (Selden Society (v. 105), 1990)
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Published Mar 1990
Judicial Records, Law Reports, and the Growth of Case Law (ed) (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1989)
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Published Jul 1989
The Notebook of Sir John Port (ed) (Selden Society (v. 102), 1986)
English Legal MSS in the USA (Part I), 1985)
Published Mar 1985
The Order of Serjeants at Law (Selden Society, 1984)
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Published Mar 1984
English Legal Manuscripts (vol. 2) (Inter Documentation Co., Zug, 1978)
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Published Jul 1978
Legal Records and the Historian (ed) (Royal Historical Society, 1978)
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Published Jul 1978
The Reports of Sir John Spelman (Vols I & II) (ed) (Selden Society (v. 93-94), 1976)
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Published Mar 1976
English Legal Manuscripts (vol. 1) (Inter Documentation Co., Zug, 1975)
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Published Jul 1975