Jon Rose

Professor Jon Rose is presenting a paper at the Annual 15th Century Conference at the University of Southampton in England this week.

Rose, a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law, Science & Innovation, will present the paper, “Maintenance in Later Medieval England: Public Complaint, Social Practice, and Judicial Development of the Law,”on
Saturday, Sept. 4.

After spending most of his career focusing on antitrust, regulation and legal ethics, Rose changed direction. His primary scholarly interests now involve medieval and early modern English legal history, and his research focuses on the history and regulation of the legal profession and the operation of the medieval legal system. Professor Rose has also written on early defamation law, medieval prisons, and the historiography of legal history.

Rose is a Faculty Affiliate of the Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies at ASU. He is the author of numerous articles on legal history, antitrust, economic and occupational regulation, and legal ethics. He also is a member of the Selden Society, the American Society of Legal History, the American Law Institute, and the BNA Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report Advisory Board. He is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.