Professor Michael Lobban
MA, PhD, FBA
Senior Research Fellow since 2022
I work on the history of English legal thought and legal practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as on law and the British empire. I am currently working, with Professor James Oldham, on volume X of the Oxford History of the Laws of England, covering the period 1760 to 1820.
• Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2022)
• Professor of Legal History, London School of Economics (from 2013 to 2022)
• Reader in Law and Professor of Legal History, Queen Mary University of London (from 2001 to 2013)
• Reader in Law, Brunel University (from 1997 to 2000)
• Lecturer and Reader, University of Durham (from 1991 to 1997)
• Junior Research Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1989 to 1991)
• Junior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand (1988)
• Undergraduate and Postgraduate student, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1981-1987)
• The history of English legal thought and legal practice, 1700-1900
• The legal history of the British Empire
• Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa (CUP 2022)
• (ed.) Jeffrey Gilbert on Property and Contract, Selden Society, volumes 134-135 (Selden Society, 2019)
• (with W. Cornish and others), The Oxford History of the Laws of England, vols. XI-XIII (OUP 2010)
• A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900 (Springer Verlag, 2007)
• White Man's Justice: South African Political Trials in the Black Consciousness Era (OUP 1996)
• The Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850 (OUP 1991)
• Secretary, Selden Society
• Member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Legal History
• Member of the editorial board Modern Law Review, Journal of Legal History