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Thomas Erskine Holland
1835–1926
A leading Victorian jurist, he helped shape how generations of students and lawyers thought about jurisprudence and international law at Oxford. His writing combined scholarly precision with a practical interest in how law works between states.
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Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920)
by Thomas Erskine Holland
About the author
Born in Brighton on July 17, 1835, Thomas Erskine Holland became one of Britain's best-known legal scholars. He studied at Oxford, was called to the bar in 1863, and later returned to the university to teach law, eventually serving as Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and as a fellow of All Souls College.
He is especially remembered for Elements of Jurisprudence, a widely read work that went through many editions and helped define legal study for decades. Alongside his academic work, he also wrote on international law and questions of war, neutrality, and relations between states, giving his work influence well beyond the classroom.
Holland lived a long life that stretched from the early Victorian period into the 1920s, dying in Oxford on May 24, 1926. He was respected not only as a teacher and writer, but as a scholar whose books gave legal ideas a clear and lasting shape.