The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume VI

There can be no doubt that this series will stand as an enduring testament to the sheer fecundity of the contemporary study of English legal history. Law Quarterly Review Despite the mass of scholarship shoe-horned into its pages, great care has been taken that this volume should be reasonably accessible to non-specialists and it is … an excellent volume. Law Quarterly Review

Sir John Baker is Downing Professor of the Laws of England, and Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He was Professor of English Legal History at Cambridge from 1988-98, and has been Literary Director of the Selden Society since 1981. He has taught at New York University School of Law as a visiting professor since 1988, and also at University College London, and at Harvard and Yale Universities. He became Honorary Queen’s Counsel in 1996, became a Fellow ofthe British Academy in 1984, and was made an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.