John Geoffrey Henry Hudson, (born 7 May 1962) FBA, FRSE,

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. He is Professor of Legal History at the

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Global Law Professor at the

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. 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

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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 ''

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''. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford (M.A. and D.Phil.) and the

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(M.A.). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014. In 2016, Hudson was elected to the

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Books

* ''Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England'' (Oxford, 1994) * ''The Formation of the English Common Law'' (London, 1996) * ''"Pollock and Maitland": Centenary Essays on the "History of English Law"'' (Proceedings of the British Academy (89; 1996) (Hudson was editor) * ''The History of the Church of Abingdon'', 2 vols, (Oxford, 2002 and 2007) * ''F. W. Maitland and the Englishness of English Law'' (Selden Society Lecture for 2006:published 2008) * ''The Oxford History of the Laws of England Volume II 871-1216'' (Oxford, 2012)

In popular culture

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'' magazine for "worst Briton" of the previous millennium, Hudson's nominee for worst Briton of the 12th century, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury Saint

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. The poll was dismissed as "daft" in ''

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'', and the result disputed by Anglicans and Catholics. Historians had nominated one person per century, and for the 12th century John Hudson chose Becket for being "greedy", "hypocritical", "founder of gesture politics" and "master of the

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