Dr. Paul Brand

Biography

Paul Brand is the L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. An eminent legal historian, his expertise lies in Anglo-American common law during its formative period from the late 12th century to the early 14th century. He has authored several significant works, including 'The Origins of the English Legal Profession' and 'Making Common Law, Kings, Barons and Justices: Making Enforcement Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England.' Brand has also edited four volumes of the Earliest English Law Reports, which feature surviving pre-1290 law reports, and is currently working on additional volumes to include a larger array of unedited law reports over the decades. Prior to his current position, Brand was an assistant keeper at the Public Record Office in London and a lecturer in law at University College Dublin. He has held research fellowships at the Institute of Historical Research in London and has been elected a fellow of Souls College at the University of Oxford, where he was recognized in 1997. Additionally, he has served as a visiting professor at Columbia Law School and as a distinguished visiting professor at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Merriam Visiting Professor of Law at Arizona State University. Brand is also a fellow of the British Academy, vice president of the Selden Society, and an honorary bencher of Middle Temple in London.

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