President
His Honour Judge Donald Cryan was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1970 and became a Bencher of the Inn in 1992. He was appointed as a Circuit Judge in 1996, and sat regularly as a judge of the High Court in Family matters. During his career, he acted as Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Family Law Arbitrators, the Judicial Studies Board Family Law Magisterial Committee and the Advisory Board of City Law School. In 2016, he was the Treasurer of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Since 2019, he has been a visiting professor of law at Goldsmiths University of London..
Vice Presidents
Professor Paul Brand FBA is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he was Senior Research Fellow from 1999 to 2014. He has written extensively on English medieval legal history and is the editor of four Selden Society volumes.
The Hon Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in January 2017, having served as a Justice of the High Court since 2007.
Literary Director
Professor Neil Jones is Professor of English Legal History at the University of Cambridge, and is Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Magdalene College. He has written widely on the history of the law of trusts and was the recipient of the Selden Society’s David Yale Prize in 2003.
Secretary
Professor Michael Lobban FBA is Professor of Legal History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He has written widely on the history of English legal thought and legal practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Treasurer
Professor Catharine MacMillan is Professor of Private Law at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. She is the author of a number of works on the history of private law.
Overseas Honorary Secretaries and Treasurers
Australia: Ms Marian Morgan-Bindan, Supreme Court Library, Brisbane, Queensland.
Canada: Professor Margaret McGlynn, University of Western Ontario.
New Zealand: Professor Warren Swain, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland.
United States: Professor Joshua Tate (Treasurer), Mr Gregory Ivy (Secretary), Southern Methodist University School of Law, Dallas, Texas.
Members of the Council
Mr David Ainger
The Hon. Morris S. Arnold
Sir John Baker
Dr Susanne Brand
Lord Burnett
Dr David Crook
Dr Sean Cunningham
Professor Norman Doe
Professor Charles Donahue, Jr.
Professor George Garnett
Professor Joshua Getzler
Dr Elizabeth Goldring
Professor Richard H. Helmholz, F.B.A.
Professor J.G.H. Hudson, F.B.A
Professor D.J. Ibbetson, F.B.A.
Mr Philip Jones K.C.
Mr Nicholas Le Poidevin, K.C.
The Rev. Professor A.D.E. Lewis
Professor Janet Loengard
Dr Michael Macnair
Dr John Maddicott, F.B.A.
Professor Wilfrid Prest, A.M.
Professor Rebecca Probert
Dr Sara Elin Roberts
Professor Gwen Seabourne
The Hon Mr Justice Marcus Smith
Professor Chantal Stebbings
Professor Joshua Tate
Professor Alice Taylor
The Rev. Professor T.G. Watkin, K.C.
Dr Ian Williams