Tony Honoré

Who is Tony Honoré?

Anthony Maurice Honoré is a British lawyer and jurist, known for his work on ownership, causation and Roman law.

Honoré was born in London but was brought up in South Africa. He served in the army during the Second World War and was severely wounded in the Battle of Alamein. After the war he continued his studies at New College, Oxford, and he has lived and taught in Oxford for the last fifty-five years, including periods as a Fellow of The Queen's College and then of New College. Between 1971 and 1988 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; though retired from his Chair, he teaches seminars in Jurisprudence for the BCL jointly with John Gardner.

Honoré was a close associate of H. L. A. Hart. They jointly wrote Causation in the Law in 1953-8 and Honoré had some influence on Hart's The Concept of Law. A number of his philosophical papers are collected in Making Law Bind and Responsibility and Fault and his contributions to legal philosophy, which range widely, include sixteen books and more than a hundred articles published over the last six decades.