The Regius Professorship of Civil Law is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the

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at the

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. The chair was founded by

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in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, and the holder is still chosen by

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Regius Professors of Civil Law

* Thomas Smith (1540) * Humphrey Busby (1547?) *

Walter Haddon Walter Haddon LL.D. (1515–1572) was an English civil lawyer, much involved in church and university affairs under Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Elizabeth I. He was a University of Cambridge humanist and reformer, and was highly reputed in his ...

(1551) * William Soone (1561) * William Clarke (1563) *

Thomas Legge Thomas Legge (; 1535 – 12 July 1607) was an English playwright, prominently known for his play ''Richardus Tertius'', which is considered to be the first history play written in England. Biography Legge was the second of three sons born to S ...

(1570?) * Thomas Bynge (1574) * John Cowell (1594) * Thomas Morrisson (1611) *

Thomas Goad Thomas Goad (1576–1638) was an English clergyman, controversial writer, and rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk. A participant at the Synod of Dort, he changed his views there from Calvinist to Arminian, against the sense of the meeting. Life He was ...

(1635) * John Clark (1666) * John Boord (1673) * John Oxenden (1684) *

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(1703) *

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(1714) * Henry Monson (1755) * William Ridlington (1757) * Samuel Hallifax (1770) *

Joseph Jowett Joseph Jowett (1751 – 13 November 1813) was an English Anglican cleric and jurist. He was Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University from 1782 to 1813. He was the uncle of William Jow ...

(1782) * James William Geldart (1814) *

Henry James Sumner 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." ...

(1847) * John Thomas Abdy (1854) * Edwin Charles Clark (1873) *

William Warwick Buckland William Warwick Buckland, FBA (11 June 1859 – 16 January 1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945. Life William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint ...

(1914) * Patrick William Duff (1945) * Peter Gonville Stein (1968) *

David Eric Lothian Johnston David Eric Lothian Johnston KC (born 1961) is a Scottish legal expert, currently Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh.Profile oDavid Eric Lothian Johnston website of the Edinburgh Law School; read 17 July 2014. Career Johnsto ...

(1993) *

David John Ibbetson David John Ibbetson is a British legal academic. He has been Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge since 2000, and President of Clare Hall from 2013 to 2020. From 2009 until 2012 he served as the chairman of the Facul ...

(2000) * Helen Scott (2022)

References

Civil Law, Regius School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge 1540 establishments in England Civil Law, Cambridge Civil Law, Regius, Cambridge {{UCambridge-stub