Owen Hood Phillips

Owen Hood Phillips
QC
Born(1907-09-30)30 September 1907
Died25 May 1986(1986-05-25) (aged 78)
NationalityBritish
EducationWeymouth College,
Merton College, Oxford
Occupationjurist
Notable workA First Book of English Law
Spouse(s)
Lucy Mary Carden, née Philip
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(m. 1949)​
Parents
  • Surgeon-Captain John Elphinstone Hood Phillips, RN (father)
  • Kathleen Marian Esther, née Way (mother)

Owen Hood Phillips, QC (30 September 1907 – 25 May 1986) was a British jurist. He was Lady Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vice-Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of that university.[1]

The son of Surgeon-Captain John Elphinstone Hood Phillips, RN and of Kathleen Marian Esther, née Way, Phillips was educated at Weymouth College, and went up to Merton College, Oxford in 1926, graduating MA and BCL. He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1930. After pupillages, Phillips did not practise at the bar, instead opting for an academic career. He was a lecturer at King's College, London from 1931 to 1935, at Trinity College Dublin from 1935 to 1937, when he returned to King's College as Reader in English Law and vice-dean.

During the Second World War, he served in the Ministries of Labour and National Service and Aircraft Production. In 1946, he became Lady Barber chair of jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1949, serving until 1968.

He married Lucy Mary Carden, née Philip, in 1949.

Works

  • Questions and Answers on Real Property and Conveyancing. 1932. 2nd Ed: 1939.[2]
  • Principles of English Law and the Constitution. 1939.[3][4]
  • A First Book of English Law. 1948 (1st of 7 editions)
  • Constitutional and Administrative Law.
  • Thomas & Hood Philips' Leading Cases in Constitutional Law. 8th Ed: 1947.[5]
  • Leading Cases in Constitutional Law. 1952. 2nd Ed: 1957.[6] Leading Cases in Constitutional and Administrative Law. 3rd Ed: 1967. 4th Ed: 1973. 5th Ed: 1979.
  • Reform of the Constitution. 1970.[7][8] This book is part of "The Reform Series".
  • Shakespeare and the Lawyers. 1972.[9] Reprinted 2005.[10] Paperback 2010.[11][12]

O Hood Phillips was joint author, with Harold Potter, of the third edition of A Short Outline of English Legal History (1933).[13]

References

  1. ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 187.
  2. ^ For a review of the second edition, see "New Editions" in "Reviews" (1939) 58 Law Notes 383 (December 1939)
  3. ^ For scans of this book, see Google Books: [1] [2].
  4. ^ For reviews of this book, see J S Henderson 56 Law Quarterly Review 120; Annual Survey of English Law 1938, p 77; "Reviews" (1939) 73 Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 171 (17 June 1939); "Reviews" (1939) 103 Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review 119 (18 February 1939); and "New Books" in "Reviews" (1939) 58 Law Notes 125 (April 1939). For other commentary on this book, see Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University, 1953, p 393.
  5. ^ For a scan of this edition, see Google Books.
  6. ^ For scans of the second edition, see Google Books: [3] [4].
  7. ^ For a scan of this book, see Google Books.
  8. ^ For reviews of this book, see "Book Reviews" (1970) 11 Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (New Series) 165; "Law: Reform of the Constitution", British Book News, 1971, p 108; M Ruthnaswamy, "Book Review: A Written Constitution for England!" (1971) 17 The Journal of Parliamentary Information 185; "Book Reviews" (1971) 22 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 238 (No 2); and A C Brassington, "Book Reviews" (1971) 2 Otago Law Review 376.
  9. ^ For a scan of this impression, see Google Books.
  10. ^ For a scan of this reprint, see Google Books
  11. ^ For a scan of this paperback, see Google Books
  12. ^ For reviews of Shakespeare and the Lawyers, see "Book Reviews" (1972) 12 The Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law 305; (1976) Choice: A Classified Cumulation: Volumes 1-10, March 1964--February 1974, vol 2, p 287; "Books" (1972) 244 The Economist 48 (12 August 1972); (1973) 10 Choice 622; and (1973) 98 Library Journal 423. For further commentary on Shakespeare and the Lawyers, see Richard J Schoeck, "Shakespeare and the Law" (1975) Shakespearean Research and Opportunities, SRO, Nos 7-8 (1972-1974), p 61; Ross, Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance, 2003, p 125; (1988) 20 Shakespeare Studies 64; (1973) 6 Southern Review 88; Zesmer, Guide to Shakespeare, 1976, p 125; and Gregory, Special Days, 3rd Ed, 1978, para 723 at p 210.
  13. ^ For a scan of the third edition, see Google Books.