John G.H. Hudson, William W. Cook Global Law Professor at Michigan Law, is a professor of legal history and head of the School of History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has an MA and DPhil from Oxford and an MA from the University of Toronto. His teaching and research focus on ninth- to thirteenth-century England and France, particularly the fields of law, lordship, and literature, as well as historical writing and the late nineteenth-century study of medieval England. He is the author of the two-volume The History of the Church of Abingdon (2002 and 2007); The Formation of the English Common Law (1996); and Land, Law, and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England (1994). He edited and contributed to a volume of the Proceedings of the British Academy on The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I: Essays Commemorating the Centenary of the Publication of "Pollock and Maitland" (1996), and in 2006 gave the Selden Society Lecture to mark the centenary of Maitland's death; this was published in 2009 as F. W. Maitland and the Englishness of English Law. His volume of the Oxford History of the Laws of England, the chronologically earliest, appeared in 2012.