Dr. Michael Lobban

Biography

Michael Lobban is a Senior Research Fellow at Souls College, specializing in Legal History. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge and was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. He has taught Law at several institutions, including the University of Durham, Brunel University, Queen Mary University of London, and the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on the history of law and legal thought in the common law world, particularly during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of "Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850" (OUP, 1991), "White Man's Justice: South African Political Trials in the Black Consciousness Era" (OUP, 1996), and "A History of Philosophy in the Common Law World, 1600-1900" (Springer, 2007). He has also contributed volumes XI-III to the "Oxford History of the Laws of England" (OUP, 2010) and his recent book is "Imperial Incarceration: Detention and Trial in Making British Colonial Africa" (CUP, 2021). He serves as Secretary of the Selden Society and has edited Jeffrey Gilbert's "Property and Contract" (volumes 134 and 135, 2017-2018).

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