Neil Jones (academic)

Neil Gareth Jones is a reader at the University of Cambridge, the current director of studies in law of Magdalene College, and literary director of The Selden Society. He supervises undergraduates in legal history and in land law.

Jones runs the legal history course at the university. He was also the academic secretary to the faculty of law from 2001 to 2003. Jones has also been the secretary of the Cambridge Law Journal and assistant literary director of the Selden Society, from which he won a prize for his seminal work The Use upon a Use in Equity Revisited.

He won the Chancellor's Medal in 1996 for the English law section of his LLM. He was also awarded a Yorke Prize for his doctoral thesis on the history of trusts between 1536 and 1660.