Paul A. Brand

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 at the Public Record Office from 1970-76, when he took up a lectureship at University College Dublin (UCD). He left UCD in 1983 and carried out research before joining the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) as a research fellow in 1993. In 1997, he was elected to a two-year fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and in 1999 became a senior research fellow there (leaving his post at the IHR). In 1998, Brand was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and, s

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