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British legal scholar (1922–2003)
Brian Hogan (4 May 1932 – 9 February 1996) was an English legal academic and Professor of Common Law at the University of Leeds from 1967-94.
Together with Sir John Smith, he wrote Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law.
Hogan was born the son of a police officer in the North East. Graduating with first-class honours in law from Manchester in 1956 (after completing his National Service), he took up a post as a temporary assistant lecturer at the University of Nottingham. He was called to the Bar (Gray’s Inn) in 1959.[1]
He remained at Nottingham until he was appointed to the chair of Common Law at the University of Leeds in 1967 where he remained until he retired in 1994. He was head of the Department of Law three times, and from 1974 to 1976 was chairman of the Board of Arts, Economic and Social Studies and Law.
From 1966 to 1972, Hogan was editor of the leading specialist journal the Criminal Law Review.
Together with Sir John Smith, he co-wrote the first seven editions (1965-1992) of Smith and Hogan’s Criminal Law[2], which became the leading doctrinal text on criminal law in England and Wales[3][4].
