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2022
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Law School Academic Awarded Sir Anthony Hart Prize

A Manchester academic has been awarded a prestigious, early career prize by the Irish Legal History Society.

Sir Anthony Hart

A Manchester academic has been awarded a prestigious, early career prize by the Irish Legal History Society on the occasion of the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen’s University Belfast.

Ashley Hannay, Lecturer in Property Law, was awarded the Sir Anthony Hart Doctoral Paper Prize, which was awarded for the best paper presented at the conference by a current or recent doctoral researcher, for his paper ‘The Origins of the Statute of Uses, 1536’. Mr Hannay joined Manchester in September 2021, and recently successfully defended his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge.

In announcing the award, Dr Niamh Howlin, Associate Professor, Head of School and Dean of the Sutherland Law School at University College Dublin commended the paper’s exceptional originality and contribution to the field of legal history. The prize was presented to Mr Hannay by Sir Anthony’s widow, Lady Mary Hart, at the conference dinner in the Great Hall at Queen’s University Belfast on Friday 8 July.

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