The same year he was awarded the Stanhope prize for an essay on the reign of Richard II (published, Oxford: Rivingtons, 1866), and in 1887 the Vinerian scholarship.
He also held the post of revising barrister under the River Lea Conservancy Acts, and for seven years preceding his death was joint editor of the Law Magazine and Review.
[1] In 1882 Taswell-Langmead was appointed professor of English constitutional law and legal history at University College, London.
[1] In 1875 Taswell-Langmead published English Constitutional History: a Text-book for Students and Others, his major work and including some original research.
He wrote an article on the same topic to the 'Law Magazine and Review' in May 1878, and drafted William Copeland Borlase's unsuccessful Parish Registers Bill of 1882.