CURRENT POSITION

Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale University
   

EDUCATION

Yale Law School
J.D., 1988
Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal

University of Chicago
Ph.D. (Intellectual History),1987
Doctoral Dissertation: "Rule of Roman Law in Romantic Germany, 1790-1860"
Dissertation Advisor: Arnaldo Momigliano

Columbia University
M.A. (European History), 1982

Yale University
B.A. summa cum laude,1980
Graduated with Distinction in Comparative Literature

EMPLOYMENT

1994 - Present: Professor of Law, Yale University; Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law since 1996

Spring, 2007: Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Fall, 2006: Visiting Professor of Law, New York University Law School

October, 2002: Visiting Professor, Università di Roma III

March, 2001; January 2002: Visiting Professor, Université de Paris II

June, 1997: Visiting Professor, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France

June, 1996: Visiting Professor, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

Fall, 1995: Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University

1989 - 1994: Associate Professor of Law, Stanford University (Assistant Professor of Law, 1989-1992)

1988 - 1989: Law Clerk to the Honorable Ralph K. Winter, Judge United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

FELLOWSHIPS

January, 2005: Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische, Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt

Spring, 2000: Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fall, 1998: Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Fall, 1992: Robbins Senior Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall

Summer, 1988: Olin Summer Research Scholar, Yale Law School
    
Summer, 1986: German Academic Exchange Service Fellow, Research in Göttingen and Heidelberg

1982 - 1985: Special Humanities Fellow, Department of History, University of Chicago

AREAS OF TEACHING SPECIALTY

Roman Law, Comparative Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, European Legal History

PUBLICATIONS

Books
 
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial. (Yale University Press, 2007)

Harsh Justice:  Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide between America
and Europe  (Oxford University Press, 2003).  Received Distinguished Book Award of the Division of International Criminology, American Society of Criminology.

The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (Princeton University Press, 1990).

Articles
  
“Comment expliquer la peine aux États-Unis?”  Archives de Politique Criminelle 27 (2005): 225-233.

“Comparative Criminal Punishment.”  Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1 (2005): 17-34.

“Response to Garland,”  Punishment and Society 7 (2005): 389-396.

“’Human Dignity’ in Europe and the United States: The Social Foundations.”  Human Rights Law Journal 25 (2004): 17-23.

“Between Self-Defense and Vengeance/Between Social Contract and Monopoly of Violence.”  Tulsa Law Review 39 (2004): 901-924

“The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty.”  Yale Law Journal 113 (2004): 1151-1221. 

“A Plea Against Retributivism.”  Buffalo Criminal Law Review 7 (2004): 85-107.

“Bring Back the Glory!”  Rechtsgeschichte 4 (2004): 74-84.

“Long Live the Hatred of Roman Law!”  Rechtsgeschichte 2 (2003): 40-57.

“The European Transformation of Harassment Law.”  With G. Friedman. Columbia Journal of European Law 9 (2003): 241-274.

“From Fascist ‘Honour’ to European ‘Dignity’” in C. Joerges and N. Ghaleigh, eds., The Darker Legacy of European Law: Perceptions of Europe and Perspectives on a European Order in Legal Scholarship during the Era of Fascism and National Socialism. Cambridge:  Hart, 2003, 243-266.

“The Neo-Romantic Turn.” in  P. Legrand and R. Munday, eds., Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003, 312-344.

“Aux Origines du ‘Monopole de la Violence’.”  in C. Colliot-Thélène and J.-F. Kervégan, eds., De la Société à la Sociologie.  Lyon:  ENS Éditions, 2002, 71-91.

“Zum Thema der Selbsthilfe in der Rechtsgeschichte.”  In W. Fikentscher, ed., Begegnung und Konflikt.  Eine Kulturanthropologische Bestandsaufnahme.   Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, N.F. 120 (2001): 97-105.

“The Opposition to Public Punishment in Germany:  At the Christian Sources,” in Grundlagen des Rechts.  Festschrift für Peter Landau, eds. Helmholz, Mikat, Müller and Stolleis (Paderborn, 2000), 759-776.

“Enforcing Civility and Respect:  Three Societies.”  Yale Law Journal 109 (2000):  1279-1398.

“What is Wrong with Inflicting Shame Sanctions?” Yale Law Journal 107 (1998):  1055-1092.

“Jhering Parmis les Français,” in O. Beaud and P. Wachsmann, eds., La Science  Juridique Française et la Science Juridique Allemande de 1870 à 1918  (1997):151-164.

“At the Scholarly Sources of Weber’s Melancholy,” Quaderni Fiorentini per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno 26 (1997):  325-362.

“The Moral Menace of Roman Law and the Making of Commerce:  Some Dutch Evidence,”  Yale Law Journal 105 (1996):  1841-1889.

“At the Origins of Law and the State:  Monopolization of Violence, Mutilation of Bodies, or Fixing of Prices?”  Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1996):  41-84.

“The Seigneurs Descend to the Rank of Creditors:  The Abolition of Respect, 1790,” Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 6 (1994):  249-283.

“Les seigneurs descendent au rang de simples créanciers:  Droit romain, droit féodal, et Révolution,”  in Droits.  Revue française de théorie juridique 17 (1993):  19-32 (French version of previous item).

“Early German Corporatism in America:  Limits of the Social in the Land of Economics,” in Continental Ideas in Anglo-American Law ca. 1800-1920, M. Reimann, ed., (Duncker & Humblot, 1993):  229-252.

“Why Did the Revolutionary Lawyers Confuse Custom and Reason?” University of Chicago Law Review 58 (1991):  1321-1368.

“Of Corporatism, Fascism and the First New Deal,” in American Journal of Comparative Law 39 (1991):  747-778.

“The Lawyers Discover the Fall of Rome,” Law and History Review 9 (1991): 191-220.

“A Note on the Medieval Division of the Digest,” Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 59 (1991):  269-284.

“The Last Generation of Roman Lawyers in Germany,” in The Uses of Greek and Latin: Historical Essays (Warburg Institute, 1988).

Note, “Commercial Law and the American Volk:  A Note on Llewellyn's German Sources for the Uniform Commercial Code,” Yale Law Journal 97 (1987):  156-175.

“Nietzsche in the Magisterial Tradition of German Classical Philology,” in  Journal of the History of Ideas, XLVII, 3 (1986) 453-468.

“From Philology to Anthropology in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany,” in  Functionalism Historicized:  History of Anthropology II, G. Stocking, ed.,  (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) 214-229.

Book Reviews Comments, and Occasional Pieces

Book Review Essay, “Making Happy Punishers.”  Harvard Law Review 118 (2005): 2698-2724. (Review of M. Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity).

Review of C. Fasolt, The Limits of History, Law and History Review 23 (2005): 459.

“Prisoner Degradation, At Home and Abroad.”  Washington Post, May 10, 2004.

“A Simple Story.”  Rechtsgeschichte 4 (2004):  206. (Review of P. Glenn, Legal Traditions of the World.) 

“La justice française vers une américanisation?”  Libération, November 27, 2003, p. 36.

Review of W. Wiecek, The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought, in 68 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 188 (2000)

Review of  P. Quint, Imperfect Union, in 103 American Historical Review 1275 (1998)

Review of M. Stolleis, Recht im Unrecht, in 69 Journal of Modern History 889 (1997)

“Reason or Hermeticism?” 5 Southern California Interdiscplinary Law Journal 193 (1997)

“From Cause Célèbre to Revolution,” Review of D. Bell, Citizens and Lawyers, 7 Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 457 (1995)
 
Review of Quaderni Fiorentini per la storia del pensiero giuridico moderno, vol. 20:  François Gény e la Scienza Giuridica del Novecento, in Journal of Modern History 67 (1995): 176.

“The Disease Idea of Roman Law, A Century Later.” 20 Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce 227 (1994)
 
Review of T. Kuehn, Law, Family and Women:  Toward a Legal Anthropology of Renaissance Italy, in 12 Law & History Review 185 (1994). 

“Law and the Pre-Modern Mind,”  review of Donald Kelley, The Human Measure, 44 Stanford Law Review 205 (1991).

“Memories of Arnaldo Momigliano,” in Remembering the University of Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 1991), 351-59.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“Consumerism, Producerism and Comparative Law”

“The Separation of Church and State in America and France: Why the Difference?”

LANGUAGES AND EXPERIENCE ABROAD

Good command of German, French and Latin;  competent command of Italian;  serviceable reading knowledge and some spoken command of Spanish, Dutch;  reading knowledge of Ancient Greek;  some knowledge of Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Mandarin.  Have taught and delivered invited scholarly presentations in German, French and Italian.

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES

American Society for Legal History, Selden Society, American Roman Law Society, American Historical Association, Société d'Histoire du Droit