Professor Emeritus Wilfrid Prest

Biography/ Background

Wilf Prest, BA (Melb.), DPHil (Oxon.) , FRHistS, FAHA, FASSA, joined Adelaide's History Department as a lecturer in 1966.

Apart from two years as Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University, Prest taught history in Adelaide until  2002, when he took up an ARCl Australian Professorial Fellowship, for a research project on the life and works of the eighteenth-century English legal author William Blackstone. William Blackstone: Law and Letters in the Eigteenth Century was published by Oxford University Press on 25 October 2008, to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Blackstone's 'general introductory lecture' as foundation Vinerian Professor of the Laws of England in the University of Oxford.

An Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Prest has held visiting positions at All Souls College, Oxford, Clare Hall, Cambridge, St Andrew's University, the Australian National University, Princeton University, the National Humanities Center, North Carolina and the University of Otago, Dunedin.

 

Research Interests

Research

Corruption, political and judicial, in early modern England

Law and society

Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England : a variorum edition

The Middle Temple, London, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century

The history of history, and universities, in Australia

South Australian history

 

 

http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/research/srg/blackstone/

Publications

For a full list, see below

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Entry last updated: Wednesday, 2 Sep 2009