The Selden Society


About the Selden Society

 

      The Society was founded in 1887 ‘to encourage study and advance the knowledge of the history of English Law’. It publishes annual volumes of source materials such as law reports, court records and other kinds of professional literature. In each case the text is provided with a translation (where the original is Latin or French) and with full indices and other apparatus. The introductions to these volumes comprise a substantial proportion of the research done in modern times on the history of the common law; and they and the materials themselves are important for social, economic, constitutional, and linguistic historians, and also for students of local and family history. The Society has in fact averaged a little more than a volume a year; and 2007 saw the publication of the 124th volume in the series, the whole of which, as of this writing, remains available in print.

      There are now almost 1700 members in some 30 countries, mainly the United Kingdom, the United States and the Commonwealth. These members include, in addition to legal historians, professional and amateur, many distinguished judges and practicing lawyers, together with most of the major university, court and official libraries in the English-speaking world.

      For the annual subscription a member receives without further charge the annual volume, the annual report of the Council of the Society and occasional literature, including published lectures. A member is also entitled to concessional rates on other publications.

      For further information about the Selden Society and its programs, see below and the Society’s London website.


Selden Society Officers

 

Patron

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE PHILLIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G.

 

President

The Right Honourable Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

 

Vice-Presidents

Dr Paul Brand, f.b.a.

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, c.J.

The Honourable B.H. McPherson, c.b.e.

 

Council

Mr David Ainger

The Hon. Morris S. Arnold

Mr Richard Bagley

Professor Thomas G. Barnes

Professor Joseph Biancalana

Professor C.W. Brooks

Mrs Marjorie Chibnall, f.b.a.

Professor M.T. Clanchy, F.B.A.

Professor W.R. Cornish, Q.C., F.B.A.

Dr David Crook

Professor Charles Donahue, Jr.

Sir Matthew Farrer, G.C.V.O.

Professor Richard H. Helmholz, F.B.A.

Professor Sir James Holt, F.B.A.

Mr John Howell Q.C.

Dr J.G. Hudson

Dr R.F. Hunnisett

Professor D.J. Ibbetson, F.B.A.

Dr N.G. Jones

The Rev. Professor A.D.E. Lewis

Professor Janet Loengard

Dr MICHAEL MaCNAIR

Dr John Maddicott, F.B.A.

His Honour E.F. MOnier-Williams

The Rt Hon. LORD Mustill, F.B.A.

Mr M.J. Prichard

The Rt Hon. Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, F.B.A.

Professor A.W.B. Simpson, F.B.A.

Professor P.G. Stein, Q.C., F.B.A.

Mr A.C. Taussig

Mr P.W.E. Taylor, Q.C.

Professor Dr R.C. Baron van Caenegem, F.B.A.

The Rev. Professor T.G. Watkin

Mr D.E.C. Yale, Q.C., F.B.A.

 

Literary Director

Professor Sir John Baker, Q.C., F.B.A.

 

Assistant Literary Director

Dr N.G. Jones

 

Honorary Treasurer

Mr Christopher Wright, (Rooks Rider, 19 Clerkenwell Close, London ec1r  0rr)

 

Secretary

Mr Victor Tunkel,  (School of Law, Queen Mary, Mile End Road, London e1  4ns)

 

Trustees

Professor M.T. Clanchy, F.B.A.           Mr P.W.E. Taylor, Q.C.

Mr Christopher Wright

 

Honorary Secretaries and Treasurers Overseas

 

Australia:  Mr Aladin Rahemtula, Supreme Court Library, Brisbane, 4000

Canada:  Professor DeLloyd J. Guth (Treasurer) , Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T  2N2;

            Professor Margaret McGlynn (Secretary), University of Western Ontario, London N6A  52C

New Zealand:  Mr Francis Dawson, Dawson Harford & Partners, 48 Courthouse Lane, Auckland

United States:  Professor Charles Donahue Jr (Treasurer), Mr David Warrington (Secretary),

                           Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA 02138

 

Honorary Correspondents Overseas

Australia

 

A.C.T.:   Dr Russell Smith, Australian Institute of Criminology, Griffith 2603

New South Wales:  The Hon. Mr Justice Peter Young, Supreme Court, Sydney, 2001

                                   The Hon. L.J. Priestly, Q.C., 53 Martin Place, Sydney, 2000

Queensland:  The Hon. B.H. McPherson, C.B.E., Supreme Court, Brisbane, 4000

                         Dr Michael W.D. White, Q.C., Centre for Maritime Law, University of Queensland, 4072

South Australia:  Professor Wilfrid Prest, Law School, University of Adelaide, 5005

Tasmania:  The Hon. Sir Guy Green, A.C., K.B.E., Government House, Hobart, 7000

Victoria:  The Hon. Sir John Young, A.C., K.C.M.G.,  2/18 Huntingtower Road, Armadale, 3143

Western Australia:  Mr Anthony Dickey, Q.C., Wickham Chambers, 28 The Esplanade, Perth, 6000

 

Canada

 

 

Alberta:  Professor Louis A. Knafla, Department of History, University of Calgary, T2N  1N4

Manitoba:  Professor DeLloyd J. Guth, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T  2N2

Ontario:  Mr E. Joel Thompson, 1139 Royal York Road, Toronto, M9A  4A8

Quebec:  Mr John G. O’Connor, 801 Chemin St-Louis, Quebec, G1S  1C1

 

New Zealand

 

Dr D.W. McMorland, P.O. Box 40–261, Glenfield P.O., Auckland, 1310

 

United States of America

 

Arizona:  Professor Jonathan Rose, College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287

Arkansas:  The Hon. Morris S. Arnold, U.S. Court of Appeals, Little Rock, 72203

California:  Professor Thomas G. Barnes, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, 94720

Colorado:  Dr Thomas F. Cope, 1700 Lincoln Street, Suite 4100, Denver 80203

District of Columbia:  Professor Peter Jaszi, Washington College of Law, American University,

                                        4400 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., 20016

Connecticut:  Professor Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law School, New Haven, 06520

Illinois:  Mr David W. Maher, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, 8000 Sears Tower, Chicago, 60606-6404

Kansas:  Professor Michael Hoeflich, School of Law, University of Kansas, Laurence, 66045

Louisiana:  The Hon. Donald E. Walter, Federal Building, 500 Fannin Street, Shreveport, 71101

Maryland:  Professor Oscar S. Gray, School of Law, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 21201

Massachusetts:  Professor Daniel R. Coquillette, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 02138

Michigan:  Professor Byron D. Cooper, School of Law, University of Detroit Mercy, 48226

Minnesota:  Professor Thomas P. Gallanis, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455

Missouri:  Mr Courtney Shands, Jr., One Mercantile Center, 24th Floor, St.Louis, 63101

New Jersey:  Professor Stanley N. Katz, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 08544

New York:  Mr John D. Gordon, III, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, 101 Park Avenue, New York, 10178

                     Professor Paul Hyams, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, 14853

Ohio:  Professor Michael D. Gordon, Dept. of History, Denison University, Granville, 43023

            Mr Bruce Tyler Wick, 1525 Leader Building, Superior at East 6th, Cleveland, 44114

Oregon:  Dean Maurice J. Holland, School of Law, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403

Pennsylvania:  Mr Jon F. LaFaver, 120 Carol Street, New Cumberland, 17013

Rhode Island:  The Hon. Joseph R. Weisberger, Supreme Court, Providence, 02903

South Carolina:  Professor Robert C. Gigueira, Lander University, 29649

Tennessee:  Mr Kevin Steiling, Attorney-General’s Office, PO Box 20207, Nashville, 37202

Texas:  Mr Nelson R. Block, Winstead PC, 1100 JPMorgan Chase Tower, 600 Travis St., Houston, 77002

Utah:  Professor Thomas Lund, College of Law, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 84112

Virginia:  Professor W. Hamilton Bryson, School of Law, University of Richmond, 23173

Washington:  Mr John A. Gose, 5400 Columbia Seafirst Center, 701 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, 98104

 

Other Countries

 

Austria, Germany and Switzerland:  Professor Dr Reinhard Zimmermann, Max Planck Institut,

                                                                  Hamburg, D-20148, Germany

Benelux Countries: Professor R.C. Baron van Caenegem, Veurestraat 47, B9051 Afsnee, Belgium

France: Professor Anne Lefebvre-Teillard, Université Paris II, 12 Place du Panthéon, 75231 Paris

Italy:  Professor Avv. Domenico Maffei, Villa delle Cerchia 19, Siena

Japan:  Dr Takeshi Kido, 4-14-5 Minami-cho, Kichijoji, Musashino-shi, Tokyo

Scandinavia:  Professor Thøger Nielsen, Studiegarden, Studiestraede 6, 1455 Copenhagen K, Denmark

 

 



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