Sir John Baker's writings touch on most aspects of English legal history, especially the legal profession and its learning.

1. The English legal profession, 1450-1550; 2. Counsellors and barristers; 3. Solicitors and the law of maintenance, 1590-1640; 4. The degree of barrister; 5. Audience in the courts; 6. The rank of Queen's Counsel; 7. The third university of England; 8. The Inns of Court in 1388; 9. The division of the Temple: Inner, Middle and Outer; 10. The Inn of the Outer Temple; 11. The Old Constitution of Gray's Inn; 12. The Ancient and Honourable Society of Gray's Inn; 13. The Inns of Court and Chancery as voluntary associations; 14. The judges as visitors to the Inns of Court; 15. Oral instruction in land law and conveyancing, 1250-1500; 16. Legal education in London, 1250-1850; 17. The Pekynnes; 18. Learning exercises in the medieval Inns of Court and Chancery; 19. The Old Moot Book of Lincoln's Inn; 20. Readings in Gray's Inn, their decline and disappearance; 21. The Inns of Court and legal doctrine; 22. Roman law at the third university of England; 23. The Inns of Court: law school or finishing school?; 24. The changing concept of a court; 25. From lovedays to commercial arbitration; 26. Personal actions in the High Court of Battle Abbey, 1450-1602; 27. Judicial Conservatism in the Tudor Common Pleas, 1500-1560; 28. The common lawyers and the Chancery: 1616; 29. The three languages of the common law; 30. Case-law in medieval England; 31. Dr Thomas Fastolf and the history of law reporting; 32. John Bryt's reports and the year books of Henry IV; 33. Case-law in England and continental Europe; 34. The books of the common law, 1440-1557; 35. English law books and legal publishing, 1557-1695; 36. Books of entries; 37. Manuscripts in the Inner Temple; 38. Common lawyers' libraries before 1640; 39. John Rastell and the terms of the law; 40. Coke's notebooks and the sources of his reports; 41. John Selden and English legal history; 42. The Newe Littleton; 43. Sir Thomas Robinson; 44. Westminster Hall; 45. English judges' robes, 1350-2008; 46. The earliest serjeants' rings; 47. The collar of SS; 48. The mystery of the Bar gown; 49. Personal liberty under the common law, 1200-1600; 50. An English view of the Anglo-Hibernian Constitution in 1670; 51. Human rights and the rule of law in Renaissance England; 52. Equity and public law in England; 53. Some early Newgate reports, 1315-26; 54. The refinement of English criminal jurisprudence, 1500-1848; 55. Criminal courts and procedure, 1550-1800; 56. Torture and the law of proof; 57. The Tudor law of treason; 58. Criminal justice at Newgate, 1616-27; 59. Le brickbat que narrowly mist; 60. The history of the common law of contract; 61. Covenants and the law of proof, 1290-1321; 62. New light on Slade's case; 63. The origins of the 'doctrine' of consideration, 1535-85; 64. Privity of contract in the common law before 1680; 65. The rise and fall of freedom of contract; 66. The law merchant and the common law before 1700; 67. The law merchant as a source of English law; 68. The use of assumpsit for restitutionary money claims, 1500-1800; 69. Bezoar-stones, gall-stones, and gem-stones: the action on the case for deceit; 70. The common law of negligence, 1500-1700; 71. Dower of personalty, 1250-1450; 72. Sir John Melton's case, 1535; 73. Funeral monuments and the heir; 74. Charity and perpetuity: the commemoration of benefactors; 75. The dark age of English legal history, 1500-1700; 76. Editing the sources of English legal history; 77. Kiralfy's action on the case; 78. Words and fictions: male and married spinsters; 79. Legal process as reported in correspondence; 80. 'Authentic testimony'?: fact and law in legal records; 81. English law and the Renaissance; 82. The common law in 1608; 83. Why the history of English law has not been finished; 84. Why should undergraduates study legal history?; Bibliography of writings by Sir John Baker.