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Dr Ian Williams
Associate Professor
Faculty of Laws
UCL SLASH
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2009
Research summary
My research interests are principally in legal history, particularly early-modern English legal history. I have particular interests in the history of common-law reasoning and its interaction with legal theory and legal practice as well as the relationship between texts and legal practice. As part of the latter I work on book history.
I am currently working on a several articles as part of a large project on the court of Star Chamber. I am investigating contemporary knowledge and understanding of the court, as well as how lawyers and other actors in the Star Chamber understood the court and its work. I am also editing a collection of Star Chamber law reports which was widely circulated in the reign of Charles I. This will be published by the Selden Society.
Teaching summary
Undergraduate:
- History of English Law
- Property Law I
- I have also taught Criminal Law, the Law of Trusts, the Law of Succession and Tort
Postgraduate:
- Historical Development of the Common Law
- PhD Research Students' Programme: Legal History
Continuing Professional Education:
- Roman Law as an Introduction to Modern Civil Law Systems (part of the Notarial Practice Course)
Education
- University College London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ02 - Recognised by the HEA as an Associate Fellow | 2011
- University of Cambridge
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2009
- University of Cambridge
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 2007
- University of Cambridge
- Other higher degree, Master of Laws | 2004
Biography
Ian joined UCL in September 2009 from Cambridge University, where he was a College Lecturer at Christ’s College. He was a Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library, California in 2006.