Upcoming lecture
Paul Brand (University of Oxford): 'Dower ex assensu: trial by jury and trial by witnesses in the 13th century'
Past lectures
This is a complete list of the lectures organised by the Centre for English Legal History since its inception:
Professor Michael Lobban (LSE): 'Martial Law in Black and White: the rule of law, the British empire and the Privy Council, 1899-1906'
Professor Alain Wijffels (KU Leuven): 'Why civil lawyers? Alberico Gentili's commitment to legal scholarship and public governance' (2017)
Additional audio and video formats are available to download from the University Streaming Media service.
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Professor David Ibbetson (University of Cambridge): 'Milsom's Legal History' (2016)
Accompanying symposium
- George Garnett (University of Oxford) 'Milsom and beyond'
- Hector MacQueen (University of Edinburgh) 'Milsom abroad: the feudal framework of Scots law'
- Norman Doe (Cardiff University) 'Milsom on ecclesiastical law'
- Paul Brand (University of Oxford) 'Building on Milsom: the strange history of c.7 of the Statute of Gloucester (1278)'
- John Hudson (University of St Andrews) 'Glanvill’s framework: language, law and identity'
- Professor Martyn Rady, ‘Not the Magna Carta: Hungary and the Golden Bull of 1222’ (2015)
- Professor Christine Carpenter, ‘Landowners’ use of the law in the fourteenth century’ (2014)
- Professor Sir John Baker, 'The Legal History Nobody Knows' (2013)