Owen Hood Phillips, QC (30 September 1907 – 25 May 1986) was a British jurist.
[1] The son of Surgeon-Captain John Elphinstone Hood Phillips, RN and of Kathleen Marian Esther, née Way, Phillips was educated at Weymouth College, and went up to Merton College, Oxford in 1926, graduating MA and BCL.
During the Second World War, he served in the Ministries of Labour and National Service and Aircraft Production.
In 1946, he became Lady Barber chair of jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1949, serving until 1968.
O Hood Phillips was joint author, with Harold Potter, of the third edition of A Short Outline of English Legal History (1933).