Herbert Broom (1815–1882) was an English writer on law.
Broom was born at Kidderminster in 1815, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as a wrangler in 1837.
He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Michaelmas term 1840, and practised on the home circuit.
For a considerable period he occupied the post of reader of common law at the Inner Temple.
Legal Maxims (1845) gained wide circulation as an established text-book for students.