John H. Baker

Sir John Baker taught at the University of Cambridge from 1971 to 2011, latterly as Downing Professor of the Laws of England. He also served for thirty years as Literary Director of the Selden Society and was knighted for services to legal history in 2003. He is the author of Collected Papers on English Legal History (Cambridge, 2013) and Introduction to English Legal History (4th edition, 2002).