James Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His subjects are comparative law, contracts, criminal law, and European legal history. His published books and articles include The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial; Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe; and The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty. Professor Whitman received a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale, an M.A. from Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Education
J.D., Yale, 1988
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987
M.A., Columbia, 1982
B.A., Yale, 1980

Courses Taught
Advanced Topics in Comparative Law
Comparative Law
The Development of the Western Legal Tradition