The Lord Chancellor and Professor John Baker, the current Downing Professor of the Laws of England, inspecting computer facilities in the Maitland Legal History Room.
The Lord Chancellor and Professor John Baker, the current Downing Professor of the Laws of England, inspecting computer facilities in the Maitland Legal History Room.
The Lord Chancellor and Professor John Baker, the current Downing Professor of the Laws of England, inspecting computer facilities in the Maitland Legal History Room.
The University's Law Faculty has a new centre for studying legal history. The Maitland Legal History Room will provide a convenient and secure location for the study and storage of the rare and valuable legal history collection maintained by the Squire Law Library.
The Maitland Legal History Room was opened by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, who said:
"I am delighted to open the Maitland Legal History Room which will offer a valuable resource to legal historians. It is a particular pleasure to me as a Cambridge graduate, whose own studies in the old Squire Law Library provided the foundation for my career in law."
The Room is named for Frederic William Maitland, Downing Professor from 1888-1906, who is considered by many as the founder of English legal history. Lord Irvine commented that the name was wholly appropriate, as Maitland "saw the study of legal history as a springboard for future action, and changes in the law as a dynamic part of social and political change." Maitland was instrumental in the foundation of the Squire Law Library in 1904.
The project has been supported by funds from the F.W. Maitland Memorial Fund and the Cambridge Law Journal.
The Lord Chancellor in discussion with Professor David Williams after the opening.
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