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Current Member

Paul Halliday

Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Legal History

Home Institution

University of Virginia
Paul Halliday is a historian of law in England and across Britain's empire. At IAS, he will work on “The Stuff of Law,” concerned with how material forms—writing and knowledge storage practices, courtrooms and other spaces—shaped what law was and how it has worked since the fifteenth century or so.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Historical Studies

Degrees

University of Chicago
Ph.D.
1993
Wesleyan University
B.A.
1983

Honors

2011
Inner Temple Prize

Appointments

University of Virginia
Julian Bishko Professor of History & Professor of Law