- Tony Honoré
A. M. (Tony) Honoré (b.1921) is a British
lawyer andjurist , known for his work onownership , causation andRoman law .Honoré was born in
London but was brought up inSouth Africa . He served in the army during theSecond World War and was severely wounded in the Battle of Alamein. After the war he continued his studies at theUniversity of Oxford , where he has lived and taught for the last fifty-five years. Between 1971 and 1988 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford; though retired from his Chair, he teaches seminars in Jurisprudence for the BCL jointly with John Gardner.Honoré was a close associate of
H. L. A. Hart . They jointly wrote "Causation in the Law" (Oxford, 1st ed. 1959, 2nd 1985) in 1953-8 and Honoré had some influence on Hart's "The Concept of Law" (Oxford, 1st ed. 1961, 2nd 1994). A number of his philosophical papers are collected in "Making Law Bind" (Oxford, 1987) and "Responsibility and Fault" (Oxford, 1999) and his contributions to legal philosophy, which range widely, include sixteen books and more than a hundred articles published over the last six decades.Honoré is an honorary Q.C. and Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, a member of the British and Bavarian Academies and of the International Academy of Comparative Law. In South Africa, where he made a contribution to the setting up of the new Constitutional Court in 1995, his standing has been recognised by the award of honorary degrees from the Universities of South Africa, Stellenbosch and Cape Town. He has delivered the Hamlyn lectures, the Blackstone and H. L. A. Hart lectures, the J. H. Gray lectures at Cambridge and the Maccabaean lecture in Jurisprudence at the British Academy. Two Festschrifts have been published in his honour.
List of publications
;Books
*"Causation in the Law" (Oxford, 1st ed. 1959, 2nd 1985)
*"Making Law Bind" (Oxford, 1987)
*"Responsibility and Fault" (Oxford, 1999);Articles
*‘Responsibility and luck: the moral basis of strict liability’ (1988) 104 "Law Quarterly Review" 530External links
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~alls0079/ Tony Honoré's web site] . Includes several online papers and brief biographical details.
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