Paul Brand - All Souls College, Oxford
DPhil, FBA, FRHistS: Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.
Dr Brand's publications include Plea Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, vol. VI (2005), Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England (2003), The Earliest English Law Reports, vols. I-IV (Selden Society, vols. 111, 112, 122, 123, 1995-6, 2005-7), The Making of the Common Law (1992), The Origins of the English Legal Profession (1992), and The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Vol. III (in preparation).
Chris Brooks - University of Durham
Professor, History, University of Durham.
Professor Brooks' major publications include Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England (2008) and Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England (1986). He is currently preparing Volume VIII (1625-1689) of the Oxford History of the Laws of England.
Sara Butler - Loyola University (New Orleans)
Associate Professor, History, Loyola University (New Orleans).
Professor Butler is the author of The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England (2007) and numerous articles on domestic abuse, abortion and suicide in medieval English courts. Her ÒDegrees of Culpability: Suicide Verdicts, Mercy, and the Jury in Medieval EnglandÓ (Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36.2) won the Sutherland prize of the American Society of Legal History for the best article of the year.
Charles Donahue - Harvard University
Paul A. Freund Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Professor Donahue is the author of fourteen books and over seventy articles, including Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments About Marriage in Five Courts (2007), Lex Mercatoria and Legal Pluralism: A Late Thirteenth-Century Treatise and its Afterlife (1998), Year Books of Richard II: 6 Richard II, 1382-1383, (1996), and Select Cases from the Ecclesiastical Courts of the Province of Canterbury, c. 1200-1301, Selden Society Publications, 95 (1981).
Richard Helmholz - University of Chicago
Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Professor Helmholz has written eighteen books, including The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Vol. 1., Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s (2004), The Ius Commune in England (2001), Canon Law and English Common Law (1983), Marriage Litigation in Medieval England (1974), and dozens of articles on the canon law in England and elsewhere.
Richard Kaeuper - University of Rochester
Professor, History, University of Rochester.
Professor Kaeuper's major publications include The Holy Warrior: Knighthood and Religion (2009), ÒThe Social Meaning of Chivalry in Romance,Ó Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (2000), The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context and Translation (with Elspeth Kennedy) (1996), and War, Justice and Public Order: England and France in the Later Middle Ages (1988).
James Masschaele - Rutgers University
Professor, History, Rutgers University.
Professor Masschaele's major publications include Jury, State, and Society in Medieval England (2008) and Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, c.1150-c.1350 (1997). He is currently working on a history of peasant revolts in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Shannon McSheffrey - Concordia University
Professor, History, Concordia University.
Professor McSheffrey's publications include Marriage, Sex, and Civic Culture in Late Medieval London (2006), Lollards of Coventry 1486-1522 (2003) and Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530 (1995). She is currently finishing a book on the sanctuary zone of St. Martin-le-Grand in London.
Cynthia Neville - Dalhousie University.
Professor, History, Dalhousie University.
Professor Neville's major publications include Land, Law and People in Medieval Scotland (2010), Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c. 1140-1365 (2005), which won both the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize and the Saltire Society Prize, and Violence, Custom and Law: The Anglo-Scottish Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages (1998).
Bruce O'Brien - University of Mary Washington
Professor, History, University of Mary Washington.
Professor O'Brien's publications include God's Peace and King's Peace: The Laws of Edward the Confessor (1999) and Reversing Babel: Translation among the English during an Age of Conquests, c. 850 to c. 1200 (2010). He is chair of the board and intellectual lead for Early English Laws, an international project to re-edit and translate all English legal texts written before Magna Carta.
Lisi Oliver - Louisiana State University
Professor, English, Louisiana State University.
Professor Oliver is the author of The Beginnings of English Law (2002) and The Body Legal in Barbarian Law (2011). She is on the literary board of the Early English Laws Project.
Robert Palmer - University of Houston Law Center
Cullen Professor of Law and History at the University of Houston Law Center.
Professor Palmer's publications include Selling the Church (2002) and English Law in the Age of the Black Death, 1348-1381: A Transformation of Governance and Law (1993). He is the creator and developer of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition website, which thus far provides access to almost 6 million frames of material from the National Archives in London.
Robin Chapman Stacey - University of Washington
Professor, History, University of Washington
Professor Stacey's major publications include Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland, which won the James S. Donelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Conference for Irish Studies, and The Road to Judgement: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and Wales (1994).
Tim Stretton - St. Mary's University
Professor, History, St, Mary's University. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Professor Stretton's major publications include Women Waging Law in Elizabethan England (1998 & 2005) and Marital Litigation in the Court of Requests 1542-1642 (2008).
Financial support for this conference has been provided by Research Western, the faculty of Social Science, the faculty of Law, the faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Student Donation Fund and the department of History
