In April 2014, a conference was held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, to mark the 80th birthday of Lord Leonard Hoffmann, widely recognised as one of the greatest jurists of our time. This volume brings together as a festschrift edited versions of the papers delivered at that conference. All are written by academics with current or former ties to the University of Oxford, the institution with which Lord Hoffmann's legal career is inextricably linked. For it was to The Queen's College, Oxford that Lord Hoffmann travelled as a Rhodes scholar from his native South Africa in 1954 to study for the BAin Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Civil Law—subsequently winning the Vinerian Scholarship for his performance in the final examinations and being appointed Stowell Civil Law Fellow at University College—and it was to Oxford that he returned as a Visiting Professor when he retired from the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords in 2009.