Professor Neil Jones
College positions: Fellow, College Lecturer in Law
University position: Professor of English Legal History
Subject: Law
Group membership: Governing Body, Libraries Committee, Stipends Committee
Professor Neil Jones is Professor of English Legal History in the Faculty of Law and a College Lecturer in Law at Magdalene. He supervises undergraduates in Land Law and Legal History.
Professor Jones read Law as an undergraduate at Peterhouse, Cambridge, going on to take the LLM degree in 1990. He began research for his PhD degree at Peterhouse, moving to Clare College in 1992 as the William Senior Research Student, and moved to Magdalene in 1994 as a Research Fellow in English Legal History.
He is now Professor of English Legal History in the Faculty of Law and a Co-Director of the Faculty’s Centre for English Legal History. He supervises undergraduates in Legal History and Land Law, and lectures on Legal History both in the Law Tripos and in LLM Course. He has taught law at Magdalene since 1994.
Research Interests
Professor Jones’s research interests are in English Legal History in the early-modern period, with a particular focus on equity, trusts, conveyancing, and the royal feudal revenue.
Qualifications
- MA (Cantab.)
- LLM
- PhD
Career/Research Highlights
- 1990 Chancellor’s Medal for English Law, University of Cambridge
- 1996 Yorke Prize, University of Cambridge
- 2003 David Yale Prize, Selden Society
- 2011 Sutherland Prize, American Society for Legal History
Professional Affiliations
- Literary Director, Selden Society
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Wills, Trusts and Trusting from the Statute of Uses to Lord Nottingham (2010) 31 Journal of Legal History, 273-298 (awarded the American Society for Legal History's Sutherland Prize 2011).
The Use upon a Use in Equity Revisited (2002) 33 Cambrian Law Review, 67-80 (awarded the Selden Society's David Yale Prize 2003).
Trusts in England after the Statute of Uses: A View from the 16th Century, in Richard Helmholz and Reinhard Zimmermann, eds, Itinera Fiduciae: Trust and Treuhand in Historical Perspective (Berlin, 1998), pp. 173-205.