Professor Ray Cocks

Title: Professor of Law
Phone: +44(0)1782 733477
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Location: Chancellor's Building, room CBC 1.013
Role:
Contacting me: During my office hours without an appointment, or email me to make an appointment.

B.A. (Cantab) 1969, Barrister (MT) 1971

Ray's special interests are in Modern Legal History and Property Law. He teaches in the area of Property Law.

Ray would be happy to supervise postgraduate research in legal history of (a) institutions (including the legal professions), (b)the history of legal literature and (c) the history of property law.

Selected Publications

  • Cocks RCJ. 2011. The Middle Temple in the Nineteenth Century. In History of the Middle Temple. Harvey O (Ed.). Hart.
  • Cocks RCJ. 2011. The New Associate Member from the University of Khartoum: African Dimensions. International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 18(1-2), 109-119.
  • Cocks RCJ. 2010. Statutes, Law Reform, and Control. In 1820-1914: Fields of Development, The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Cornish W, Anderson S, Cocks R, Lobban M, Polden P, Smith K (Eds.). (vol. XIII). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Cownie F and Cocks RCJ. 2009. 'A Great and Noble Occupation!': The History of the Society of Legal Scholars. Oxford: Hart.
  • COCKS RCJ. 2004. Power, Policy and Co-ordination in Law Reform: a Civil Servant and Town Planning Law, 1929–1930. Liverpool Law Review, vol. 25(1), 1-28. doi>

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Books

  • Cownie F and Cocks RCJ. 2009. 'A Great and Noble Occupation!': The History of the Society of Legal Scholars. Oxford: Hart.

Journal Articles

  • Cocks RCJ. 2011. The New Associate Member from the University of Khartoum: African Dimensions. International Journal of the Legal Profession, vol. 18(1-2), 109-119.
  • COCKS RCJ. 2004. Power, Policy and Co-ordination in Law Reform: a Civil Servant and Town Planning Law, 1929–1930. Liverpool Law Review, vol. 25(1), 1-28. doi>
  • COCKS RCJ. 2002. Social Roles and Legal Rights: Three Women in Early Nineteenth-Century India. Journal of Legal History, vol. 23(2), 77-106.
  • COCKS RCJ. 2001. Ram, Rab and the civil servants: a lawyer and the making of the 'Great Education Act 1944'. Legal Studies, vol. 21(1), 15–35. doi>
  • COCKS RCJ. 2001. Enforced Creativity: Noel Hutton and the New Law for Development Control, 1945-47. Journal of Legal History, vol. 22(1), 21-54.

Chapters

  • Cocks RCJ. 2011. The Middle Temple in the Nineteenth Century. In History of the Middle Temple. Harvey O (Ed.). Hart.
  • Cocks RCJ. 2010. Statutes, Law Reform, and Control. In 1820-1914: Fields of Development, The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Cornish W, Anderson S, Cocks R, Lobban M, Polden P, Smith K (Eds.). (vol. XIII). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Land 1

Law and Social Reform