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The University of Michigan Press has published Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts (Law and Society in the Ancient World) by Peter Candy. Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts studies the first millennium of the standard form contracts at the heart of ancient long-distance trade, from the fifth century BCE to Justinian. Maritime loan contracts recorded the t…

Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, has published Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson edited by Joe Sampson and Stelios Tofaris. Over the last 40 years, David Ibbetson has paved the way in a remarkably broad range of fields. In ancient law, his scholarship has spanned both the detailed doctrine of the Roman law of obliga…

The Centre for English Legal History (CELH) has recently welcomed two new Faculty members with research interests in legal history: Dr Joe Sampson, University Assistant Professor in Legal History, and Dr Fleur Stolker, Herchell Smith Teaching/Research Fellow at Emmanuel College. Publications In 2023 the Selden Society published volumes 3 to 5 of Pr…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Helen Scott will join the Faculty of Law in October 2022 as the Regius Professor of Civil Law. The Regius Professorship of Civil Law was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 and was the University of Cambridge’s first Chair in Law. The Chair is currently held by Professor David Ibbetson, who will retire in Septe…

A team from the Université de Liège has won the Twelfth International Roman Law Moot, defeating the University of Oxford in the Grand Final, held in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral. This is the first time that Liège has secured the Palma Victoriae, and reverses the 2018 result, in which Oxford defeated Liège. This year's prize consisted of a repli…

The Selden Society, founded in 1887 by F.W. Maitland and others to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of English law, offers a Milsom Studentship (named in honour of the late Professor S.F.C. Milsom, sometime Literary Director and President of the Society) for a person commencing research in English legal history leading t…

On Friday, 18 November 2016, the Centre for English Legal History at the University of Cambridge hosted a symposium to commemorate the life and works of Professor SFC Milsom QC FBA (1923–2016), whose writings revolutionised legal historical scholarship. Papers on medieval legal history were presented by Professors George Garnett (Oxford), Hector Ma…

The Centre has launched a fund-raising campaign to secure permanent accommodation two substantial and complementary libraries of English legal history, belonging to the late Professor SFC Milsom and Professor Sir John Baker, as the core of a research collection which will provide a vital resource for legal historians for generations to come. For fu…