Owen Hood Phillips, QC (30 September 1907 – 25 May 1986) was a British jurist. He was Lady Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at the

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and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vice-Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of that university. The son of Surgeon-Captain John Elphinstone Hood Phillips, RN and of Kathleen Marian Esther, , Phillips was educated at

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, and went up to

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in 1926, graduating MA and BCL. He was called to the Bar by

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in 1930. After pupillages, Phillips did not practise at the bar, instead opting for an academic career. He was a lecturer at

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from 1931 to 1935, at

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from 1935 to 1937, when he returned to King's College as Reader in English Law and vice-dean. During the

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he served in the Ministries of Labour and National Service and Aircraft Production. In 1946, he became Lady Barber chair of jurisprudence at the

, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1949, serving until 1968. He married Lucy Mary Carden, ''née'' Philip, in 1949.

Works

*''Questions and Answers on Real Property and Conveyancing''. 1932. 2nd Ed: 1939. *''Principles of English Law and the Constitution''. 1939. *''

A First Book of English Law ''A First Book of English Law'' is a book originally written by Owen Hood Phillips and subsequently edited by him and Anthony Hugh Hudson. It was published by Sweet and Maxwell. F.R. Crane praised it for its "lucidity, accuracy, brevity and readab ...

''. *''Constitutional and Administrative Law''. *''Thomas & Hood Philips' Leading Cases in Constitutional Law''. 8th Ed: 1947. *''Leading Cases in Constitutional Law''. 1952. 2nd Ed: 1957. ''Leading Cases in Constitutional and Administrative Law''. 3rd Ed: 1967. 4th Ed: 1973. 5th Ed: 1979. *''Reform of the Constitution''. 1970. This book is part of " The Reform Series". *''Shakespeare and the Lawyers''. 1972. Reprinted 2005. Paperback 2010. O Hood Phillips was joint author, with Harold Potter, of the third edition of ''A Short Outline of English Legal History'' (1933).For a scan of the third edition, se
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References

*L. Neville Brown
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'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 14 March 2013.
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'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012, accessed 14 March 2013. *"Hood Phillips, Owen". The Writers Directory 1980–82. Macmillan Press. 1979
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p 674. *"Phillips, Owen Hood". Who was who Among English and European Authors, 1931–1949. Gale Research Company. Detroit. 1978
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p 1121. *"In Memoriam Owen Hood Phillips" (1986
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