Current and Former Berger-Howe Fellows
Since 2005, Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellows have gone on to amazing careers in the legal academy. Among the alumni and alumnae of the program are tenured professors at the top law schools in the United States. The following table provides detailed information about the current work of former fellows.
2018-19 Berger-Howe Fellow
William P. Sullivan
William P. Sullivan is the Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow for 2018-2019. A graduate of Princeton and Yale Law School, he is a Ph.D. candidate in the departments of classics and history at the University of Chicago, where his dissertation is entitled, “Relevance in the Civil Law Tradition: The Emergence of the Roman-Canon Law of Positions.” He was a Legal History Fellow at Yale Law School in 2016-2017 and a law clerk for Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2017-2018.
| Lewis Fellow | Fellowship Year(s) | Current Position |
| Marie-Amelie George | 2017-2018 | Assistant Professor of Law Wake Forest School of Law |
| Nikolas Bowie | 2016-2017 | Assistant Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
| Adam Lebovitz | 2015-2016 | |
| Maeve Glass | 2014-2015 | Associate Professor of Law Columbia Law School |
| Sara Mayeux | 2013-2014 | Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of History Vanderbilt Law School |
| Peter C. Pihos | 2012-2013 | Assistant Professor of History Western Washington University |
| Sam Erman | 2011-2012 | Associate Professor of Law USC Gould School of Law |
| Jedidiah Kroncke | 2010-2011 | Associate Professor Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong |
| Deborah Dinner | 2009-2010 | Associate Professor of Law Emory University School of Law |
| Kara Swanson | 2008-2009 | Professor of Law Northeastern University School of Law |
| Cynthia Nicoletti | 2007-2008 | Professor of Law University of Virginia School of Law |
| R. Owen Williams | 2007-2008 | President Associated Colleges of the South |
| Diana I. Williams | 2006-2007 | |
| Daniel I. Sharfstein | 2005-2006 | Professor of Law and Professor of History Vanderbilt Law School |
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