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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 (Oxford University Press, 2024)

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

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

An Introduction to English Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2019) 5th Edition

The Inns of Chancery 1340-1640 (Selden Society, 2017)

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The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216-1616, 2017)

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

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The Reports of William Dalison 1552-1558 (Selden Society, 2008)

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The English Legal Manuscripts of Sir Thomas Phillipps (Selden Society, 2008)

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

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

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

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

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

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ISBN:
1852851813
ISBN 13:
978-1852851811

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

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

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English Legal Manuscripts (vol. 2) (Inter Documentation Company, 1978)

Legal Records and the Historian (ed) (Royal Historical Society, 1978)

English Legal Manuscripts (vol. 1) (Inter Documentation Company, 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 (Selden Society, 2012)

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

An Inner Temple miscellany: papers reprinted from the Inner Temple yearbook (Masters of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, 2004)

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

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

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ISBN:
0907628621
ISBN 13:
978-0907628620

An Introduction to English Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2002) 4th Edition

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

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

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ISBN:
0854231358
ISBN 13:
0854231404

Monuments of Endlesse Labours : English canonists and their work, 1300-1900 (The Hambledon Press, 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) (Selden Society, 1997)

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ISBN:
0 85423 219 2

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

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Manual of Law French (Scolar Press, 1990) 2nd Edition

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ISBN:
0859677451
ISBN 13:
978-0859677455

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

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

Co-Author/s:
Samuel Thorne
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The Notebook of Sir John Port (ed) (Selden Society, 1986)

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ISBN:
085423148X

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

The Order of Serjeants at Law (Selden Society, 1984)

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