Department of History

Medieval Law and Government
English Origins of American Law
History of the European Family
Women and the Law
Graduate Seminar on Teaching
From Communities to Kingdoms: The Growth of the European State c. 800 to c. 1800

The Radical Face of the Ancient Constitution: St. Edward’s “Laws” in Early Modern Political Thought (Cambridge, 2001; PB 2006); Subjects and Sovereigns: The Grand Controversy over Legal Sovereignty in Stuart England (Cambridge, 1981; PB 2002), with Corinne C. Weston;

“`There is Scarce a Pamphlet That doth Not Triumph in Bracton’: The Role of De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae in Stuart Political Thought,” History of Political Thought, vol. XXXIII, 2012, with Michael Sechler; “Constitutionalism Ancient and Early Modern: The Contributions of Roman Law, Canon Law, and English Common Law,” Cardozo Law Journal (in press), with Michael Sechler; “`St. Edward’s Ghost’: The Cult of St. Edward and His Laws in English History,” in Felix Liebermann and Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen, ed. Stefan Juranski, Lisi Oliver and Andrew Rabin (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010); “`Our Grand maxim of State: The King Can Do No Wrong,’” History of Political Thought, Vol. XII, 1991.

National Endowment of the Humanities Grant (1999)
American Philosophical Society Grant (1989)
Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (1989)