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About John Hudson (historian)
- John Geoffrey Henry Hudson, (born 7 May 1962) FBA, FRSE, FRHistS is an English medieval historian and Latin translator.
- He is Professor of Legal History at the University of St Andrews and the William W.
- Cook Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Hudson specializes in Medieval (particularly Anglo-Norman) legal history, and is known for his monographs on the subject as well as his edition, translation and commentary of the Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis.
- In 2006, he gave the Selden Society lecture to mark the centenary of F.W.
- Maitland's passing.
- In addition to scholarly books, chapters, articles and lectures, Hudson has also contributed to The Times Literary Supplement.
- He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford (M.A.
- and D.Phil.) and the University of Toronto (M.A.). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014.
- In 2016, Hudson was elected to the British Academy.
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