Melbourne Law School Faculty Scholarship Bibliography 1857 — 2000
Biographical entry
Jenks, Edward (1861 - 1939)
Professor
- Born
- 20/02/1861
Lambeth, London, United Kingdom - Died
- 10/11/1939
Bishop's Tawton, Devonshire, United Kingdom - Occupation
- Academic, Dean and Professor
- Categories
Summary
Dean of Law, 1889-1892.
Professor of Law, the first to occupy a Chair of Law at an Australian university.
Chronology
- 01/01/1888 - 01/01/1892
- Melbourne Law School Employment
Additional Notes
In 1889, aged only 28, Cambridge-educated Edward Jenks became the second Dean of Law at the University.
Also a Professor of Law, Jenks was the first to occupy a Chair of Law at an Australian university.
View the profile in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
View the publication record in TROVE (National Library of Australia)
Publications
Journal Articles
- Jenks, E, 'Some Correspondence of Thurloe and Meadowe', English Historical Review, vol. 7, 1892, p. 720. Details
- Jenks, E, 'Legal Execution and Land Tenure', English Historical Review, vol. 8, no. 31, 1893, p. 417. Details
- Jenks, E, 'On the early history of negotiable instruments', Law Quarterly Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 1893, p. 70. Details
Online Resources
- Melbourne Law School, History, Melbourne Law School, http://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/history/growth-and-influence. Details
- Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090472b.htm. Details
- Trove, National Library of Australia, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-880202. Details
- Jenks, E, The constitutional experiments of the Commonwealth : a study of the years 1649-1660, Cambridge historical essays 3, University Press, Cambridge, 1890, 154 pp. Details