Anthony Maurice Honoré (30 March 1921 – 26 February 2019) was a British lawyer and jurist known for his work on

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, causation and

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.John Gardne
''Tony Honoré as Teacher and Mentor: A Personal Memoir''
; read 1 April 2014.

Biography

Honoré was born in London but was brought up in South Africa. He served in the South African Infantry during the

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and was severely wounded in the Battle of Alamein. After the war he continued his studies at

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, and he lived and taught in

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for seventy years, including periods as a

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of The Queen's College and then of New College.Profile o
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All Souls College website, Oxford; read 1 April 2014. Between 1971 and 1988 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford and a Fellow of

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Tony Honoré
University of Oxford website, read 1 April 2014.Daniel Visser and Max Loubser (2011)
Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honore
'; Siber Ink, Westlake (South Africa). read 1 April 2014. for nearly 30 years after retiring from his chair, he taught seminars in Jurisprudence for the BCL jointly with John Gardner. Honoré was a close associate of H. L. A. Hart. They jointly wrote ''Causation in the Law'' (Oxford, 1st ed. 1959, 2nd 1985) in 1953-8 and Honoré had some influence on Hart's ''The Concept of Law'' (Oxford, 1st ed. 1961, 2nd 1994). A number of his philosophical papers are collected in ''Making Law Bind'' (Oxford, 1987) and ''Responsibility and Fault'' (Oxford, 1999) and his contributions to legal philosophy and Roman law, which range widely, include 16 books and more than a hundred articles published over six decades. Honoré was an honorary

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and Bencher of

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, a member of the

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and Bavarian Academies and of the International Academy of Comparative Law. In South Africa, his standing has been recognised by the award of honorary degrees from the Universities of

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and

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. When receiving this last degree, in 1990, he had the opportunity to give an address. He used this opportunity to point to the parallel between the extension of citizenship to all free people in the

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, regardless of race, sex or religion, by

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in 211 AD, and the extension of citizenship to the whole of the South African population. This he foresaw would need an adjustment of the legal system, and he suggested a constitutional court to carry it through with a parallel to the composition of the German Constitutional Court.

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approved of this. It was put into practice in 1995, and has been a success. He delivered the

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(1982), the Blackstone and H. L. A. Hart lectures, the J. H. Gray lectures at

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and the Maccabaean lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy. Three

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en have been published in his honour. * Neil MacCormick and Peter Birks (eds., 1985) ''The Legal Mind: Essays for Tony Honoré'';Neil MacCormick and Peter Birks (Eds., 1985) ''The Legal Mind: Essays for Tony Honoré''; Claredons Press, Oxford. * Peter Cane and John Gardner (eds., 2001) ''Relating to Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Tony Honoré on his 80th Birthday''.Peter Cane and John Gardner (Eds., 2001) ''Relating to Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Tony Honoré on his 80th Birthday''; Oxford: Hart Publishing Co., * Daniel Visser and Max Loubser (eds., 2011) ''Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honore''; On 17 September 2004 he received

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from the then mayor of San Ginesio, Pietro Enrico Parrucci.

List of publications

;Books * ''Gaius: a biography'' (Oxford, 1962) * ''Tribonian'' (London, 1978) * ''Sex Law in England'' (London: Duckworth, 1978) * ''Emperor and Lawyers: with a paligenesia of third-century imperial rescripts 193–305 AD'' (London, 1st ed. 1981; Oxford, 2nd ed. 1994) * ''Ulpian: pioneer of human rights'' (Oxford, 1st ed. 1982; 2nd ed. 2002) * ''The Quest for Security: Employees, Tenants, Wives'' (London: Stevens, 1982) * ''Causation in the Law'' (Oxford, 1st ed. 1959; 2nd 1985) – with H. L. A. Hart * ''Making Law Bind'' (Oxford, 1987) * ''Concordance to the Digest Jurists'' (Oxford: OMP, 1980) – with J. Menner * ''About Law: an introduction'' (Oxford, 1995) * ''Law in the Crisis of the Empire 379–455 AD: the Theodosian dynasty and its quaestors'' (Oxford, 1998) * ''Responsibility and Fault'' (Oxford, 1999) * ''Justinian's Digest: character and compilation'' (Oxford, 2010) ;Articles * "Responsibility and luck: the moral basis of strict liability" (1988) 104 ''Law Quarterly Review'' 530

References

External links

Tony Honoré 1921– 2019
Memorial notice from the Oxford Law faculty, by John Gardner. from 7 March 2019.
link

Tony Honoré (F, 1938) – RIP
Memorial from the Diocesan College alumni network site from 26 February 2019.
Tony Honoré's web site
Includes several online papers and brief biographical details. {{DEFAULTSORT:Honore, Tony 1921 births 2019 deaths British philosophers of law Members of Lincoln's Inn Alumni of New College, Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of the Queen's College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford University of Cape Town alumni Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Oxford) Honorary King's Counsel Fellows of the British Academy South African Army officers British expatriates in South Africa Academics of the University of Nottingham