Jonathan Philip Chadwick Sumption, Lord Sumption, OBE, PC, FSA, FRHistS (born 9 December 1948), is a British author, medieval historian, barrister and former senior judge who sat on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom between 2012 and 2018, and a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal from 2019 to 2024.
Books in order of publication:
Pilgrimage: An Image of Medieval Religion. Faber & Faber. 1975
The Albigensian Crusade. Faber. 1978
Equality. J. Murray. 1979
The Hundred Years War I: Trial by Battle. 1990
The Hundred Years War II: Trial by Fire. 1999
The Hundred Years War III: Divided Houses. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2009
The Hundred Years War IV: Cursed Kings. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2015
Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics. Profile Books Limited. 2019
Law in a Time of Crisis. Profile Books Limited. 2021
The Hundred Years War V: Triumph and Illusion. 2023
The Challenges of Democracy: And The Rule of Law. 2025
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