Wilfrid Prest, AM (born 1940) is a historian, specialising in legal history, who is professor emeritus at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[1] the Australian Academy of the Humanities,[2] the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia,[3] and Queen's College, University of Melbourne, and a member of the Council of the Selden Society, London.[4]
He has published five sole-author books, three scholarly textual editions, and twelve edited collections, together with numerous journal articles and entries in works of reference.