Regius Professor of Laws (Dublin)

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The Regius Professor of Laws is an originally as Regius Professor of Canon and Civil Law in 1668 by King Charles II. Donated Regius Professor of Law at Trinity College in Dublin. In addition to this Regius Professorship, a Regius Professorship of Feudal and English Law at Trinity College was filled from 1761 , which has been combined with the Professorship of Law since 1934.

History of the professorship

In the founding charter of Trinity College in Dublin, Elizabeth I granted the university the right to award degrees in omnibus artibus et facultatibus , including law. There were no other opportunities for legal training in Ireland until the mid-19th century. Even in early regulations, there was a professor of civil law who was responsible for the examinations and the training standards. Before 1668, the teaching of jurisprudence was under the control of the university administration. One of the fellows taught law for one semester. There was no permanent professorship.

The first mention of a publicly appointed professor is on November 20, 1667, when Henry Styles was appointed first publ. Prof. Legum . By a letter of Charles II dated November 4, 1668, a professorship was newly established as Regius Professor of Civil and Canon Law and supported with funds from the Act of Settlement with 40 pounds sterling per year.

The chair was usually occupied by a fellow from the college, a practice that was expressly forbidden, for example, in the Chair of Feudal and English Law founded in 1761 . When this chair received written examination regulations in the middle of the 19th century, the chair for civil law was reformed at the same time, the salary was raised and the practice of appointing a fellow was abandoned. From then on, the professor had to be a doctor of law, a barrister with at least six years of professional experience. In 1871 it was even determined that a fellow appointed professor had to give up his fellowship. Nevertheless, the chair was just a sinecure for many of the holders .

Notable exceptions were people like Francis Stoughton Sullivan , who later became the first Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law, or Arthur Brown , who also campaigned politically for the goals of the university.

It was not until the mid-19th century that the division of tasks between the Regius Professor of Laws (Roman law, general law and international law) and that of Feudal and English Law (property law) made the chair a permanent first-class address in university teaching. In 1944, Frances Elizabeth Moran took over the chair, becoming the first woman in the British Isles to be a professor in law. In 2013 no other woman had been appointed to a Regius Professorship in law.

owner

Surname name suffix from to annotation
Henry Styles LL.D. Nov 4, 1668 Despite the appointment of Henry Styles (or Stiles), there was still no basis for legal training. At best one can speak of an embryonic state.
George Brown DD 1686
John Barton DD 1693
Benjamin Pratt DD 1704 Pratt became Provost of Trinity College in 1710. His political bias towards the Tories brought him into connection with Jacobites . In 1717 he was forced to give up his office due to political influence.
John Elwood LL.D. 1710
Robert Shawe DD 1740
John Forster LL.D. 1743
Brabazon Disney DD 1747
John Whittingham DD 1749
Francis Stoughton Sullivan LL.D. 1750 1761 Sullivan was the youngest member to become a Fellow at Trinity College at just 19 years old. He was highly regarded and his work An Historical Treatise on the Feudal Law, and the Constitution and Laws of England, with a Commentary on Magna Charta , published in 1772, was for a long time the authoritative work on the subject. Sullivan took over the newly established Regius Chair of Feudal and English Law in 1761 .
Patrick Duigenan LL.D. 1766 1776 In 1776, Duigenan, born in County Leitrim, took over the Regius Professur of Feudal and English Law. The move was made palatable through the influence of Provost Hutchinson, who increased the professor's salary by £ 100 for this purpose only. In gratitude, Duigenan published a diatribe a year later in which he mercilessly exposed Hutchinson. But Duigenan's academic career was damaged. So he focused on his legal career, where he caught the attention of political forces with an anti-Catholic stance and was elected to the Irish Parliament for the constituency of Armagh.
Michael Kearney DD 1776
James Drought 1778
Henry Dabzac DD 1779
John Forsayeth DD 1782
Gerald FitzGerald DD 1783
Arthur Browne LL.D. 1785 June 8, 1805 In addition to the Regius Chair of Civil and Canon Law , Browne held the Regius Professorship for Greek in Dublin three times , 1792 to 1795, 1797 to 1799 and 1801 to 1805. In 1783 Brown became a member of the House of Commons for the Borough of Dublin University. In 1795 Browne became Crown Attorney , in 1802 Prime Serjeant (last of this office) and in 1803 Bencher of the Society of the Kings Inns in Dublin.
Francis Hodgkinson LL.D. June 8, 1805 1810 Hodgkinson owed his professorship more to his political position in the university than to his skills. He neglected his duties as a professor because he did not give any lectures on the subject during his entire tenure.
Richard Graves DD 1809
Francis Hodgkinson LL.D. 1810 see 1805.
Christopher Edmund Allen 1817
Richard MacDonnell DD 1840 MacDonnell was elected provost of the university in 1852 and remained there until 1867.
Henry Wray DD 1841
John Lewis Moore DD 1844
John Anster LL.D. 1849 1867 Anster was better known for his literary endeavors than for his teaching. His best-known works are partly translations of Faust . He held the professorship until his death. In a questioning by a parliamentary commission in 1853, Anster explained to the members that the award of titles had been a purely formality from the earliest times .
Thomas Ebenezer Webb LL.D. 1867 1887 Born in England, Webb had come to the university in 1845 and took over the professorship in moral philosophy in 1857 after he was awarded the Doctor of Laws. left the professorship to become a judge in Donegal District. In 1868 he tried unsuccessfully to be elected to parliament for the university.
Henry Brougham Leech LL.D. 1888 1908 Leech was a recognized specialist in international law.
Charles Francis Bastable MA, LL.D. Feb. 29, 1908 1932 Bastable became known as an economist. His professorship, the Whately Professorship of Political Economy at Trinity College, which he had held since 1882, was so poorly endowed that he had to look for other fields of activity. Among other things, he was involved as an author for the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (abbreviation CFB). At the same time, he taught law and economics at Queen's College in Galway (now the National University of Ireland, Galway ), from 1903 law and international law at Trinity College and from 1908 as Regius Professor of Law. The burden of the many duties is cited as the reason why Bastable made no more contributions to academic theory.
unexplained gap
Frances Elizabeth Moran LIB, LID 1944 1963 Moran was admitted to the bar in Ireland in 1924 and in England in 1940. When Frances Moran was appointed Reid Professor in 1925, she was the first woman to accept a professorship in Dublin. She was also the first woman in Britain to be honored as Queen's Counsel ( took the silk ). A scholarship at Trinity College, the Frances E. Moran Research Studentship and an annual lecture series since 1983, the Frances E. Moran Memorial Lecture, were named after her .
Vincent Thomas Hyginus Delany (VTH Delany) 1963 Jan. 17, 1964
unexplained gap
Robert Francis Vere Heuston 1970 1983 Heuston had at Pembroke College of University of Oxford taught (1947-1963) and then five years at the University of Southampton . With his volume Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 1885–1970 , Heuston brought legal biography to life as an art form.
Paul O'Higgins MA, Ph.D., LL.D. 1984 1987 O'Higgins has become a leading figure in labor law, civil liberties and social security law through his teaching activities . During his time at the University of Cambridge (early 1960s to 1984) he published Public Employee Trade Unionism in the United Kingdom and Individual Employment Law with Bob Hepple in 1971 and the Encyclopaedia of Labor Relations Law in 1972 . In 1975, O'Higgins and Hepple teamed up with Judith Neeson to compile the previously non-existent bibliography of literature on British and Irish Labor Law. In 1994 he was honored with a commemorative publication , Human Rights and Labor Law: essays for Paul O'Higgins . In 1987 O'Higgins returned to England, where he took up a professorship at King's College London , which he held until his retirement in 1992.
unexplained gap
John Waters
William Binchy BA, MA, BCL, LL.M 1992 2012 Binchy was a member of the Irish Commission on Human Rights.
vacant 2013 Aug. 2014
Mark Bell 2015 Bell previously headed the University of Leicester 's School of Law from 2011 to 2014 .

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n VTH Delany: Legal Studies in Trinity College, Dublin, Since The Foundation . In: Hermathena , No. 89, May 1957, pp. 3-16; Trinity College Dublin; JSTOR 23039694
  3. ↑ List of professorships (PDF; 20.5 kB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Trinity College Dublin; accessed on May 1, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.tcd.ie  
  4. ↑ a b c Trinity Appoints New Regius Professor of Laws ; Trinity College press release, Dublin, July 17, 2015.
  5. ^ Seán Patrick Donlan: The Places Most Fit for This Purpose: Francis Stoughton Sullivan and Legal Study at the University of Dublin (1761-6) . In: Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr , Vol. 20, 2005, pp. 120-139; Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society; JSTOR 30071055
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  9. ↑ James Chalmers: Resorting to Crime (PDF) The inaugural lecture of James Chalmers, the Regius Professor of Law, delivered in the Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow on January 17, 2013.
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  20. ↑ Richard MacDonnell: 1851-1867 (c. 1787-1867) ; Richard MacDonnell's short CV on the Trinity College website, Dublin, March 6, 2015; accessed on June 15, 2017.
  21. ^ A b Alfred Webb, Anster, John in A Compendium of Irish Biography ( Wikisource ).
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  30. ↑ The Legal Writing of VTH Delany . In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly , Vol. 15, No. 4; Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  31. ^ A b c Robert Stevens (1995) Obituary: Professor Robert Heuston . In: The Independent , December 21, 1995.
  32. ↑ Bob Hepple: Paul O'Higgins . In: Guardian , March 25, 2008; Obituary for O'Higgins.
  33. ↑ a b c d e f Keith Ewing: Professor Paul O'Higgins: Innovative scholar at the forefront of studies in British labor law . In: The Independent , April 8, 2008; Obituary for Paul O'Higgins.
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  35. ^ Invitation to a conference on: “The Citizenship Referendum: Implications for the Constitution and Human Rights”; on May 22, 2004 in the Hamilton Building of Trinity College, Dublin.
  36. ^ William Binchy, John Ahern: The Rome II Regulation on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations: A New International Litigation Regime . Brill, 2009, ISBN 978-90-474-2525-0 .