Jeffrey Hackney
Emeritus Fellow
Jeffrey Hackney was a Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Edmund Hall from 1964-76 and was also the College’s Librarian (overseeing the conversion of St Peter-in-the-East to our current library in the late 1960s) and Senior Tutor. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of both St Edmund Hall and Wadham College.
Jeffrey came to Wadham as a law student in 1959. He left in 1962 to pursue historical studies at UCL but returned in 1963 to do the BCL. Following his tutorial fellowship at St Edmund Hall, he returned to Wadham as Tutorial Fellow in Law in 1976.
He has taught at universities in North America and on the mainland. He was a co-founder of a law reporting company which pioneered the notion of same-day law reporting and for many years, in conjunction with the National Judicial College, organised residential seminars for senior American judges seeking to learn more about the British system.
His teaching and research interests, formerly in property law and legal history, are now limited to Roman law and he is becoming obsessed by the debt which the Common law owes to the Civilian tradition. He is also exploring whether useful comparative data can be assembled on the ways in which different legal systems offer fiscal inducement to charitable donors.
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