History of the Yale Law School:The Tercentenary Lectures (with A. Kronman et al.)
Yale Univ. Press 2004
The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial Oxford Univ. Press 2003 (paperback 2005)
Uniform Statutes on Trusts and Estates: 2005-06 Edition (with Lawrence Waggoner)
Foundation Press 2005 (previous editions, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001; sub nom. Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates, 1995, 1994, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1987)
Pension and Employee Benefit Law (with Susan Stabile & Bruce Wolk)
4th ed. 2006;
3d ed., Foundation Press 2000 (2d ed., 1995;
1st ed. 1990) Teacher’s Manual (2000, 1995, 1990); annual supplements (2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991)
Pension and Employee Benefit Statutes and Regulations: Selected Sections: 2005 Edition
(with Bruce Wolk), Foundation Press 2004,
(previous eds. 2004, 2003, 2002)
The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Its Origins and Development
(with R.H. Helmholz et al.)
Univ. Chicago Press 1997
Comparative Criminal Procedure: Germany (West Pub. Co., American Casebook Series 1977)
Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancient Regime
Univ. Chicago Press 1977; republished 2005
Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, France Harvard Univ. Press 1974, reissued 2005 (awarded the Yorke Prize, Cambridge University); excerpted in part and published in translation as “Die Carolina” in F.C. Schroeder, ed., Die Carolina: Die Peinliche Gerichtsordnung Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1986)
ARTICLES:
PENSION AND INVESTMENT LAW
Social Security and the Private Pension System, in In Search of Retirement Security: The Changing Mix of Social Insurance, Employee Benefits, and Individual Responsibility (T. Ghilarducci et al. eds.) (National Academy of Social Insurance 2005)
What’s Wrong with Employer Stock Pension Plans, in Enron: Corporate Fiascos and Their Implications 487 (Nancy B. Rapoport & Bala G. Dharan eds. 2004) (reproducing testimony presented to U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, Jan. 24, 2002)
What ERISA Means by “Equitable”: The Supreme Court’s Trail of Error in Russell, Mertens, and Great-West, 103 Columbia L. Rev. 1317 (2003), substantially republished in New York University Review of Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation 2-1 (2004)
Trust-Investment Law in the United States: Main Themes of the Uniform Prudent Investor Act, Shintaku No. 189 (Feb. 1997) (in Japanese)
The Uniform Prudent Investor Act and the Future of Trust Investing, 81 Iowa Law Review 641 (1996); republished in Modern International Developments in Trust Law (D. Hayton, ed.) (1994)
The New American Trust-Investment Law, 8 Trust Law International 123 (1994)
Reversing the Nondelegation Rule of Trust-Investment Law, 59 Missouri Law Review 104 (1994) (William Fratcher memorial issue)
The Supreme Court Flunks Trusts, [1990] Supreme Court Review 207 (1991)
The Conundrum of Fiduciary Investing under ERISA, in Proxy Voting of Pension Plan Equity Securities 128 (D. McGill, ed.) (Wharton School: Pension Research Council 1989)
ERISA’s Fundamental Contradiction: The Exclusive Benefit Rule (with Daniel R. Fischel), 55 Univ. Chicago Law Review 1105 (1988)
Social Investing of Pension Funds and University Endowments: Unprincipled, Futile and Illegal, in Disinvestment: Is it Legal, Is it Moral? Is it Productive? (National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington 1985)
Social Investing and the Law of Trusts (with Richard Posner), 79 Michigan Law Review 72 (1980)
Market Funds and Trust-Investment Law II (with Richard Posner), 1977 American Bar Foundation Research Journal I
The Revolution in Trust Investment Law (with Richard Posner), 62 American Bar Association Journal 887 (1976)
Market Funds and Trust-Investment Law (with Richard Posner), 1976 American Bar Foundation Research Journal I
TRUST AND ESTATE LAW
Questioning the Trust-Law Duty of Loyalty: Sole Interest or Best Interest? 114 Yale L.J. 929 (2005).
The Rise of the Management Trust, 143 Trusts & Estates Magazine 52 (Oct. 2004)
Mandatory Rules in the Law of Trusts, 98 Northwestern Law Review 1105 (2004) (Hess Memorial Lecture of the Ass’n of the Bar of the City of New York, April 2002)
Curing Execution Errors and Mistaken Terms in Wills: The Restatement of Wills Delivers New Tools (and New Duties) for Probate Lawyers, 18 Probate and Property 28 (Jan./Feb. 2004); substantially republished in 51 Yale Law Report 36 (Sum. 2004)
The Uniform Trust Code: Codification of the Law of Trusts in the United States, 15 Trust Law International 69 (2001).
The Secret Life of the Trust: The Trust as an Instrument of Commerce, 107 Yale Law Journal 165 (1997); republished in Modern International Developments in Trust Law (D. Hayton, ed.) (1999)
The Contractarian Basis of the Law of Trusts, 105 Yale Law Journal 625 (1995)
Will Contests, 103 Yale Law Journal 2039 (1994) (review)
Reforming the Law of Gratuitous Transfers: The New Uniform Probate Code (with Lawrence Waggoner), 55 Albany Law review 871 (1992) (Uniform Probate Code Symposium Issue)
The Inheritance Revolution, The Public Interest 15-31 (Winter 1991)
Education and Family Wealth, 20 Planning for Higher Education 1 (1991)
Taking a Look at the Pluses and Minuses of the Practice, Trusts & Estates 10-18 (December 1989)
The Twentieth-Century Revolution in Family Wealth Transmission, 86 Michigan Law Review 722 (1988)
The Twentieth-Century Revolution in Family Wealth Transmission and the Future of the Probate Bar, 1988 Probate Lawyer 1 (American College of Probate Counsel)
Excusing Harmless Errors in the Execution of Wills: A Report on Australia’s Tranquil Revolution in Probate Law, 87 Columbia Law Review 1 (1987)
Redesigning the Spouse’s Forced Share (with Lawrence Waggoner), 22 Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal 303 (ABA, 1987); abridged and republished, 32 Quadrangle Notes 30 (Univ. Michigan Law School 1988)
The Nonprobate Revolution and the Future of the Law of Succession, 97 Harvard Law Review 1108 (1984)
Reformation of Wills on the Ground of Mistake: Change of Direction in American Law? (with Lawrence Waggoner), 130 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Review 521 (1982).
Defects of Form in the Execution of Wills: Australian and Other Experience with the Substantial Compliance Doctrine, in American/Australian/New Zealand Law: Parallels and Contrasts 59 (ABA Press 1980) Crumbling of the Wills Act: Australians Point the Way, 65 American Bar Association Journal 1192 (1979); substantially republished as The Crumbling of the Wills Act: The Australians Point the Way, 25 Univ. Chicago Law School Record 3 (1979)
Living Probate: The Conservatorship Model, 77 Michigan Law Review 63 (1978)
Substantial Compliance with the Wills Act, 88 Harvard Law Review 489 (1975)
COMPARATIVE LAW
Cultural Chauvinism in Comparative Law, 5 Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law 41 (1997)
Scholarly and Professional Objectives in Legal Education: American Trends and English Comparisons, in What Are Law Schools For? (P. Birks, ed.) (Oxford Univ. Press 1996)
Money Talks, Clients Walk, Newsweek, April 17, 1995, at 32-34.
The Influence of Comparative Procedure in the United States, 43 American Journal of Comparative Law 545 (1995) (United States National Report to the Tenth World congress for Procedure Law).
American Legal Education in Comparative Perspective, in Legal Education in the Netherlands in a Comparative Context 55-64 (Grotius Academy 1995) (ISBN 90-71478-43-2)
The Influence of the German Emigres on American Law: The Curious Case of Civil and Criminal Procedure, in Enfluß deutschsprachiger juristischer Emigranten auf die Rechtsentwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland (Mohr Verlag, Tubingen 1993)
Trashing “The German Advantage,” 82 Northwestern Law Review 763 (1988)
Comparative Civil Procedure and the Style of Complex Contracts, 35 American Journal of Comparative Law 381 (1987); republished in Der komplexe Langzeitvertrag/The Complex Long-Term Contract 445 (F. Nicklisch, ed.) (C.F. Muller Verlag, Heidelberg 1987); republished in German as Zivilprozessrechtsvergleichung und der Stil komplexer Vertragswerke, 86 Zeitschrift fur vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft 141 (1987)
The German Advantage in Civil Procedure, 52 Univ. of Chicago Law Review 823 (1985)
Mixed Court and Jury Court: Could the Continental Alternative Fill the American Need?, 1981 American Bar Foundation Research Journal 195
Land Without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It, 78 Michigan Law Review 204 (1979)
Judging Foreign Judges Badly: Nose Counting Isn’t Enough, 18 Judges’ Journal 4 (Fall 1979)
Comparative Criminal Procedure: “Myth” and Reality (with Lloyd L. Weinreb), 87 Yale Law Journal 1549 (1978)
Controlling Prosecutorial Discretion in Germany, 41 Univ. Chicago Law Review 439 (1974)
LEGAL HISTORY
The Legal History of Torture, in Torture: A Collection 93 (Sanford Levinson ed.) (Oxford Univ. Press 2004)
Review, The Trial in History (Vol.1, M. Mulholland & B. Pullan eds., Vol. 2, R.A. Melikan ed.), 119 English Historical Review 192 (Feb. 2004)
Trinity Hall and the Relations of European and English Law from the Fourteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries, in The Milestones Lectures (Cambridge, England 2001)
The Prosecutorial Origins of Defence Counsel in the Eighteenth Century: The Appearance of Solicitors, 58 Cambridge Law Journal 314 (1999) (awarded the Sutherland Prize, American Society for Legal History, 2000)
The Later History of Restitution, in Restitution Past, Present and Future: Essays in Honour of Gareth Jones 57-62 (Oxford 1998)
The Historical Foundations of the Law of Evidence: A View from the Ryder Sources, 96 Columbia Law Review 1168 (1996)
The Historical Origins of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination at Common Law, 92 Michigan Law Review 1047 (1994)
Chancellor Kent and the History of Legal Literature, 93 Columbia Law Review 547 (1993)
On the Myth of Written Constitutions: The Disappearance of Criminal Jury Trial, 15 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 119 (1992); published in translation as Sobre el mito de las constituciones escritas: La desaparacion del juicio penal por jurados, 1996 Nueva Doctrina Penal 45 (Argentina, 1996)
Culprits and Victims, Times (London) Literary Supplement, Oct 11, 1991 (review)
The Twilight of Amateur Law Enforcement, 9 Law & History Review 398 (1991) (review)
The English Criminal Trial Jury on the Eve of the French Revolution, in the Trial Jury in England, France, Germany: 1700-1900 (Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History) (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987)
The Constitutio Criminalis Carolina in Comparative Perspective: An Anglo-American View, in Strafrecht, Strafprozess und Rezeption (P. Landau & F.-C. Schroeder, eds.) (Frankfurt 1984)
Shaping the Eighteenth-Century Criminal Trial: A View from the Ryder Sources, 50 Univ. Chicago Law Review 1 (1983)
Illustrations as Legal Historical Sources, 29 Univ. Chicago Law School Record 3 (1983)
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, entry for the history of the law of torture (Macmillan, 1983)
Albion’s Fatal Flaws, Past and Present (No. 98, February 1983) 96-120
Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law (A.W.B. Simpson, ed.), entries for G. Gilbert, W. Lambarde, D. Ryder, T. de Veil, J. Wild (Butterworths 1983)
Introduction, Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume III (Univ. Chicago Press, reprint ed. 1979)
Understanding the Short History of Plea Bargaining, 13 Law and Society Review 261 (1979)
Torture and Plea Bargaining, 46 Univ. Chicago Law Review 4 (1978); republished in Spanish as “Tortura Y Plea Bargaining,” in El Procedimiento Abreviado (J.B. Maier & A. Bovino eds.) (Buenos Aires 2001); substantially republished without notes in The Public Interest (Winter 1980) at 43; latter version republished in the Public Interest on Crime and Punishment (N. Glazer ed. 1984)
The Criminal Trial Before the Lawyers, 45 Univ. Chicago Law Review 263 (1978)
The Historical Origins of the Sanction of Imprisonment for Serious Crime, 5 Journal of Legal Studies 35 (1976)
Fact Finding in the English Court of Chancery: A Rebuttal, 83 Yale Law Journal 1620 (1974)
The Origins of Public Prosecution at Common Law, 17 American Journal of Legal History 313 (1973)