The position of Professor of Jurisprudence (originally the Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence) at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, England, was created in 1869. The holders of the position have been: * Sir

Henry Maine Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book '' Ancient Law'' that law and society developed "from status to contract. ...

1869–77 * Sir Frederick Pollock 1883–1903 * Sir

Paul Vinogradoff Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (russian: Па́вел Гаври́лович Виногра́дов, transliterated: ''Pavel Gavrilovich Vinogradov''; 18 November 1854 (O.S.)19 December 1925) was a Russian and British historian and medieval ...

1903–25 *

Walter Ashburner Walter Ashburner (1864 – February 1936) was an America-born British classical and legal scholar. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford from 1926 to 1929.{{Cite web , title=Walter Ashburner (1864-1936) , url=https://library ...

1926–1929 * Sir Carleton Allen 1929–1931 * Arthur Lehman Goodhart 1931–51 *

H. L. A. Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (18 July 190719 December 1992), known simply as H. L. A. Hart, was an English legal philosopher. He was Professor of Jurisprudence (University of Oxford), Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University an ...

1952–68 * Ronald Dworkin 1969–98 * John Gardner 2000–2016 *

Ruth Chang Ruth Chang is the Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of University College, Oxford, and an American professor of philosophy. She is known for her research on the incommensurability of values a ...

2019–

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