Surgeon-Captain John Elphinstone Hood Phillips, RN (father)
Kathleen Marian Esther, née Way (mother)
Owen Hood Phillips,
QC (30 September 1907 – 25 May 1986) was a British jurist. He was Lady Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at the
University of Birmingham and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Vice-Principal and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of that university.[1]
The son of Surgeon-Captain John Elphinstone Hood Phillips, RN and of Kathleen Marian Esther, née Way, Phillips was educated at
Weymouth College, and went up to
Merton College, Oxford in 1926, graduating MA and BCL. He was called to the Bar by
Gray's Inn in 1930. After pupillages, Phillips did not practise at the bar, instead opting for an academic career. He was a lecturer at
King's College, London from 1931 to 1935, at
Trinity College Dublin from 1935 to 1937, when he returned to King's College as Reader in English Law and vice-dean.
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^Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 187.
^For a review of the second edition, see "New Editions" in "Reviews" (1939)
58 Law Notes 383 (December 1939)
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[1][2].
^For reviews of this book, see J S Henderson 56 Law Quarterly Review 120;
Annual Survey of English Law 1938, p 77; "Reviews" (1939)
73 Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 171 (17 June 1939); "Reviews" (1939)
103 Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review 119 (18 February 1939); and "New Books" in "Reviews" (1939)
58 Law Notes 125 (April 1939). For other commentary on this book, see Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University, 1953,
p 393.
^For reviews of this book, see "Book Reviews" (1970)
11 Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (New Series) 165; "Law: Reform of the Constitution",
British Book News, 1971, p 108; M Ruthnaswamy, "Book Review: A Written Constitution for England!" (1971)
17 The Journal of Parliamentary Information 185; "Book Reviews" (1971)
22 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 238 (No 2); and A C Brassington, "Book Reviews" (1971) 2 Otago Law Review
376.
^For reviews of Shakespeare and the Lawyers, see "Book Reviews" (1972)
12 The Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law 305; (1976) Choice: A Classified Cumulation: Volumes 1-10, March 1964--February 1974,
vol 2, p 287; "Books" (1972)
244 The Economist 48 (12 August 1972); (1973)
10 Choice 622; and (1973)
98 Library Journal 423. For further commentary on Shakespeare and the Lawyers, see Richard J Schoeck, "Shakespeare and the Law" (1975) Shakespearean Research and Opportunities, SRO,
Nos 7-8 (1972-1974), p 61; Ross,
Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance, 2003, p 125; (1988)
20 Shakespeare Studies 64; (1973)
6 Southern Review 88; Zesmer,
Guide to Shakespeare, 1976, p 125; and Gregory, Special Days,
3rd Ed, 1978, para 723 at p 210.