S. F. C. Milsom
Stroud Francis Charles Milsom
Biography
Milsom was born in
Milsom was Professor of Legal History at the London School of Economics between 1964 and 1976, succeeding to Theodore Plucknett, and he succeeded Plucknett as Literary Director of the Selden Society, 1965-1980. The first edition of his seminal Historical Foundations of the Common Law was published in 1969.[3][4] During those years, he also taught occasionally as a visiting professor at Yale Law School.[5] Subsequently, Milsom was the society's President from 1985 to 1988, succeeding to Geoffrey Elton.[6] From 1976 to 1990 he was Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. In 1980, he delivered the Selden Society's lecture, on The Nature of Blackstone's Achievement,[7] and the British Academy's Master-Mind Lecture, on F. W. Maitland.[8] In 1984, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[9] In 1986 he delivered the Ford Lectures (Oxford) on Law and Society in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Milson won the Ames Prize in 1972 and the Swiney Prize in 1974. He received honorary LLDs from Cambridge, Chicago, and Glasgow universities.
References
- ^ Squire Law Library, Cambridge
- ^ Selden Society, Vol. 80, for 1963: Novae Narrationes, Edited by the late Miss Elsie Shanks and S. F. C. Milsom, Fellow of New College, Oxford.[1]
- ^ L. Dingle and D. Bates, Squire Law Library
- ISBN 0406625018
- ^ "The Rare Book Collection opens 2017 with an outstanding gift". Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. Yale University. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
- ^ A Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society, 1987.
- ^ Selden Society Publications, Lecture Series
- ^ "Master-Mind Lectures". The British Academy. text
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
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