Michael Lobban

Michael Lobban is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor of Legal History. He was an undergraduate and postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge, a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford and has taught Law at the University of Durham. Brunel University, Queen Mary University of London and the London School of Economics.

His research interests lie in the history of law and legal thought in the common law world, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the author of The Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850 (OUP 1991), White Man's Justice: South African Political Trials in the Black Consciousness Era (OUP 1996), A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900 (Springer 2007) and was one of the author of vols. XI-III of The Oxford History of the Laws of England (OUP 2010). His most recent book is Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa (CUP 2021).

He is also the Secretary of the Selden Society, for whom he edited Jeffrey Gilbert on Property and Contract (vol. 134 and 135 for 2017-2018).