Tony Honoré

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Anthony Maurice Honoré,

QC, FBA (30 March 1921[1] – 26 February 2019[2]) was a British lawyer and jurist known for his work on ownership, causation and Roman law.[3]

Biography

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

John Gardner.[citation needed
]

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 100 articles published over six decades.[citation needed]

Honoré was an honorary

German Constitutional Court. Nelson Mandela approved of this. It was put into practice in 1995, and has been a success.[citation needed
]

He delivered the Hamlyn Lectures (1982),[7] the Blackstone and H. L. A. Hart lectures, the J. H. Gray lectures at Cambridge and the Maccabaean lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy. Three Festschriften have been published in his honour.

  • Neil MacCormick and Peter Birks (eds., 1985) The Legal Mind: Essays for Tony Honoré;[8]
  • Peter Cane and John Gardner (eds., 2001) Relating to Responsibility: Essays in Honor of Tony Honoré on his 80th Birthday.[9]
  • Daniel Visser and Max Loubser (eds., 2011) Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honore;[6]

On 17 September 2004 he received honorary citizenship from the then mayor of San Ginesio, Pietro Enrico Parrucci.[10]

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

  1. ISBN 9783769679762
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  2. ^ "All Souls College Oxford: Tony Honoré (1921-2019)". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  3. ^ John Gardner Tony Honoré as Teacher and Mentor: A Personal Memoir Archived 13 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine; read 1 April 2014.
  4. ^ Profile of Tony Honré All Souls College website, Oxford; read 1 April 2014.
  5. ^ Profile of Tony Honoré Archived 7 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine University of Oxford website, read 1 April 2014.
  6. ^ a b Daniel Visser and Max Loubser (2011) Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honore; Siber Ink, Westlake (South Africa). read 1 April 2014.
  7. ^ The Quest for security: Employees, Tenants, Wives, Tony Honoré
  8. ISBN 978-0198761969
  9. ISBN 1-84113-210-1
  10. ^ "17 settembre pomeriggio". www.comune.sanginesio.mc.it. Retrieved 15 February 2021.

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