Owen Hood Phillips

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Owen Hood Phillips (30 September 1907 - 1986) was 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]

Phillips was educated at Weymouth College, and went up to Merton College, Oxford in 1926. He was called to the Bar in 1931, and during the Second World War he served in the Ministries of Labour and Aircraft Production.

He married Lucy née Philip in 1949.

Works[]

  • Principles of English Law and the Constitution. 1939.
  • A First Book of English Law.
  • Constitutional and Administrative Law.
  • Leading Cases in Constitutional and Administrative Law.
  • Reform of the Constitution. 1970.
  • Shakespeare and the Lawyers. 1972.

References[]

  1. ^ Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College Register 1900–1964. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 187.
  • L. Neville Brown, "Phillips, Owen Hood (1907–1986)", rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 14 March 2013.
  • "PHILLIPS, Prof. Owen Hood", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012, accessed 14 March 2013.
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