Edward Jenks was an English jurist and writer on law and legal history who lived from 20 February 1861 to 10 November 1939. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, he held academic posts at Jesus College Cambridge, the University of Melbourne, University College Liverpool, Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and he founded the Society of Public Teachers of Law. He became a Fellow of the British Academy and edited the multi volume Digest of English Civil Law, published between 1905 and 1917. He is particularly remembered for his 1904 essay The Myth of Magna Carta, which challenged the conventional historical account of the charter's significance.
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