Working with Archives – Law and Historiography
Episode Description
In this episode of Talking about Methods, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Professor Michael Lobban (All Souls College, Oxford) about working with archives as a legal historian. They talk about finding a good research question in the field of legal history and accessing and understanding different archives.
Readings recommended by Professor Michael Lobban
Ibbetson, David (2004), ‘What Is Legal History a History of?’ in Lewis, Andrew and Lobban, Michael (eds), Law and History. Oxford University Press.
Baker, John H (2012), ‘Reflections on “Doing” Legal History’ in Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings (eds) Making Legal History. Cambridge University Press.
Gordon, R W (1984), ‘Critical Legal Histories’ in 36 Stanford Law Review
Lobban, Michael (2012), ‘The Varieties of Legal History’ in Clio@Themis
About the Speaker
Michael Lobban
Michael Lobban is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College and Professor of Legal History. 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 (1991), White Man's Justice: South African Political Trials in the Black Consciousness Era (1996), A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900 (2007) and recently published his book Imperial Incarceration: Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa (2021).