Law
Law at All Souls has a long and distinguished history. The College's Founder, Archbishop Chichele, intended some of the College's Fellowships to support those studying canon and civil law. In 1753, William Blackstone gave the first Oxford lectures on the common law while a Fellow of the College and in 1758 he became the first Vinerian Professor of English Law.
Today the College has a large number of Fellows and Visiting Fellows who engage in legal research and practice in diverse fields. The College also provides Fellowships to the following University post holders: the Regius Professor of civil law, the Vinerian Professor of English law, the Chichele Professor of International law, and the Professor of Criminology. Lectures and seminars on a variety of legal topics are frequently held.
The Codrington Library's collection of case and statute reports, monographs, periodicals and textbooks, is housed in the Anson Room. The library holds a particularly impressive collection of legal works on civil and common law of the 16th-18th century.
Current Fellows in Law
| Andrew Ashworth | Criminal Law, Criminal Justice |
| Paul Brand | Legal History |
| Guy Goodwin-Gill | International Law, Barrister |
| Ian Loader | Criminology |
| Vaughan Lowe | International Law, QC, Barrister |
| Boudewijn Sirks | Roman Law, Legal History |
| Fraser Campbell | Barrister |
| Launcelot Henderson | High Court Judge, Chancery Division |
| Jeremy Lever | QC, Barrister |
| David Pannick | QC, Barrister |
| James Walmsley | Barrister |
| Nicola Lacey | Criminal Law, Legal Theory |
| Birke Häcker | Private Law (English and German), Comparative Law, Legal History |
| Frederick Wilmot-Smith | Unjust enrichment, particularly failure of consideration |