Paul Anthony Brand, FBA, FRHistS, is a British legal historian. He was Professor of Legal History at the University of Oxford from 2010-14, when he retired, and a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 1999-2014 (remaining at All Souls as an emeritus fellow). Brand attended Magdalen College, Oxford (graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967). While completing his doctorate at Magdalen (awarded in 1974 for his thesis *The contribution of the period of baronial reform (1258–1267) to the development of the common law in England*), Brand worked as an assistant keeper at the Public Record Office from 1970-76, when he took up a lectureship at University College Dublin (UCD). He left UCD in 1983 and carried out research before joining the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) as a research fellow in 1993. In 1997, he was elected to a two-year fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and in 1999 became a senior research fellow there (leaving his post at the IHR). In 1998, Brand was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and, since 2014, he has also been an honorary bencher at the Middle Temple. In 2018, he was the recipient of the Sarton Medal of the University of Ghent. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Brand_(historian))