John Burke (publisher)

John McDonald Burke was a barrister and legal publisher. He served as a senior editor at Sweet & Maxwell.

Burke was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn and he joined Sweet & Maxwell as an editor, taking responsibility for several publications.

Notably, he was co-founding editor of The Criminal Law Review with Peter Allsop.[1] He also prepared Volume 17 (the complete index) of Sir William Searle Holdsworth's A History of English Law.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ashworth, Andrew; Dennis, Ian. "Fifty years of the Criminal Law Review". Criminal Law Review. 2004: 1.
  2. ^ Holdsworth, William Searle; Burke, John McDonald; Goodhart, Arthur L.; Hanbury, Harold Greville (1991). A history of English law. London: Sweet & Maxwell : Thomson/Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN 9780421175600.