SPECIALIZATION: Anglo-American Legal History, 12th-20th century
SPECIALIZATION: Anglo-American Legal History, 12th-20th century
EDUCATION: University of Iowa, Ph.D., 1977 (Dissertation advisor: Donald W. Sutherland)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Houston: Cullen Professor of History and Law (joint appointment), 1987--.
Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary: Associate Professor of Law and Adler Fellow in the Institute of Bill of Rights Law, 1985-87; Assistant Professor of Law and Adler Fellow, 1983-1985
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Visiting Ass't Professor of History and Lecturer in Law, 1982-83
Postdoctoral Fellowships: Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor: Junior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows and the University of Michigan Law School, 1979-1982; Univ. of Alberta: Izaak W. Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, 1978-79; C.U.N.Y., Graduate Center: Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1977-78
PUBLICATIONS
Research Monographs:
(1) English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law, University of North Carolina Press, 1993, 452pp.;
(2) Liberty and Community: Constitution and Rights in the Early American Republic, coauthored with William Nelson, with an introduction by Frederick Schauer. Institute of Bill of Rights Law Monograph Series, 1987, and the New York University School of Law Linden Studies in Legal History, 1987, 155pp.;
(3) The Whilton Dispute, 1264-1380: A Social-Legal Study of Dispute Settlement in Medieval England, Princeton University Press, 1984, 295pp.;
(4) The County Courts of Medieval England, 1150-1350. Princeton University Press 1982, 360pp. Special edition paperback by Princeton University Press, 1986. AHA Herbert Baxter Adams Prize (American Historical Association prize for best first book in European History).
Current Monograph Project: The Legal Reformation of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1495-1540
Research Articles: 12 articles (437 pp.) in English Historical Review; Michigan Law Review; Law and History Review; University of Illinois Law Review The American Journal of Legal History; Speculum, and elsewhere.
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STANDARD COURSES
English Legal History; American Legal History; Property Law; Palaeography; Readings courses in English and American legal history; European historiography
INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS
My primary intellectual interest is in the interplay among rules of law,
discretion, governance mechanisms, legal strategy, and the social reaction to
and utilization of law.
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