Paul A. Brand

25 December 1946

Paul Anthony Brand, FBA, FRHistS, is a British legal historian. He was Professor of Legal History at the University of Oxford from 2010-14, when he retired, and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 1999-2014 (remaining at All Souls as an emeritus fellow). Brand attended Magdalen College, Oxford (graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967). While completing his doctorate at Magdalen (awarded in 1974 for his thesis *The contribution of the period of baronial reform (1258–1267) to the development of the common law in England*), Brand worked as an assistant keeper