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Director of Studies in Law (Tripos) and University Senior Lecturer in Law
Dr Neil Jones read law as an undergraduate at Peterhouse, Cambridge, going on to take the LL.M. degree, and winning the Chancellor's Medal for English Law in 1990. He moved to Clare College in 1992 as the William Senior Research Student, and came to Magdalene in 1994 as a research fellow in English legal history. He is now a University Senior Lecturer in Law. He supervises and lectures in legal history to both undergraduates and postgraduates, and also supervises undergraduates in modern land law. He was Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law 2001-2003. He has been Director of Studies in Law (Tripos) at Magdalene since 1997.
Dr Jones's research interests are in early modern English legal history, in particular the history of trusts, the feudal revenue, and conveyancing. His Ph.D. dissertation on the history of trusts in England 1536-1660 was awarded a Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge in 1996, and he is currently working on a book in the same field. He is the author of a number of articles on English legal history, and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is editor of the Journal of Legal History, and assistant literary director of the Selden Society, a body devoted to the advancement of legal history and the publication of editions of legal historical source material; he was awarded the Society's David Yale Prize in 2003 for his article 'The Use Upon a Use in Equity Revisited' (2002) 33 Cambrian Law Review 67.
Dr Jones can be contacted by:
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