Professor David Lemmings

Biography/ Background

I was born in London and educated at the Universities of Sussex, London and Oxford before coming to Australia as a Research Fellow of the University of Adelaide. I then became Associate Professor in History at the University of Newcastle.

Research Interests

My research has been focussed on the history of the legal profession in late seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, and more broadly on law and society in England and its former colonies.

Publications

For a full listing of David Lemming's publications, please see attached document.

Books and Monographs

1. Lemmings, D. Professors of the Law: Barristers and the Culture of English Law in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, xiv+399 pp.
2. Lemmings, D. Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680-1730. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, xiv+323
3. Edited (with Katherine Lindsay) Treaties and Constitutions (Newcastle: Newcastle Law Journal, special issue, 5, 2001), v+125 pp.
4. Edited The British and their Laws in the Eighteenth Century (Wodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005) ix+260pp. 

Files

• Full listing of publications - Lemmings.pdf [77.6K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009