The position of Professor of Jurisprudence (originally the Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence) at the

University of Oxford The University of Oxford is a collegiate university, collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the List of oldest un ...

, England, was created in 1869. The holders of the position have been: * Sir Henry Maine 1869–77 * Sir Frederick Pollock 1883–1903 * Sir

Paul Vinogradoff Sir Paul Gavrilovitch Vinogradoff (; – 19 December 1925) was a Russian and British historian and medievalist. He was a leading thinker in the development of historical jurisprudence and legal history as disciplines. Early life Vinogradoff ...

1903–25 * Walter Ashburner 1926–1929 * Sir Carleton Allen 1929–1931 * Arthur Lehman Goodhart 1931–51 *

H. L. A. Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart (; 18 July 190719 December 1992) was a British legal philosopher. One of the most influential legal theorists of the 20th century, he was instrumental in the development of the theory of legal positivism, which wa ...

1952–68 *

Ronald Dworkin Ronald Myles Dworkin (; December 11, 1931 – February 14, 2013) was an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at ...

1969–98 * John Gardner 2000–2016 *

Ruth Chang Ruth Chang is an American philosopher and legal scholar who serves as the Professor and Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of University College, Oxford, and a professor of philosophy. She was previously a ...

2019–

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