Instructors
Charles Donahue
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Stuart M. McManus & Charles Donahue, Jr., Philologia ancilla historiae: An Emendation to lex Burgundionum, 42,2, 131 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 414…
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Legal History: English Legal History
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to the history of law and legal institutions in England from the Anglo-Saxons to the seventeenth century.
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Legal History: English Legal History
January 18, 2023
An introduction to the history of law and legal institutions in England from the Anglo-Saxons to the seventeenth century. The principal focus will be on…
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Legal History: Continental Legal History
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam A survey of the main outlines of Continental European legal history from the fall of the Roman Empire to…
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Legal History Workshop: Legal Pluralism
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop aims to provide students with an historical perspective on the phenomenon of legal pluralism world-wide, but with…
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Legal History: English Legal History
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: The English Legal History course, either previously or concurrently, or the permission of the instructor, is required. Some materials in Latin and French will…
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Roman Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to Roman law that combines a survey approach with one that focuses in some depth on topics…
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Pierson v. Post and the Theory of Property Seminar
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Property Exam Type: No Exam Many first-year property courses begin with Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. R. 175, 2 Am. Dec. 264 (N.Y. 1805).
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Legal History Seminar: Continental Legal History
January 18, 2023
Pre/Co-requisites: Concurrent registration in Continental Legal History, or equivalent preparation is required, as is the ability to read simple Latin prose.
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Roman Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to Roman law that combines a survey approach with one that focuses in some depth on topics…
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Peter Landau
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue Jr., Peter Landau, 96 Speculum 943 (2021).
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Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England.
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue Jr., Law in Common: Legal Cultures in Late-Medieval England 74 Renaissance Q. 1349 (2021) (reviewing Tom Johnson, Law in Common: Legal Cultures in…
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Charles Donahue, Book Review, 71 J. Ecclesiastical Hist. 630 (2020) (reviewing Elisabeth van Houts, Married life in the Middle Ages, 900–1300 (2019)).
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Samuel Edmund Thorne: 1907–1994
October 19, 2022
Samuel Edmund Thorne: 1907–1994 (Charles Donahue, Jr. ed., Harv. L. Sch. 1995).
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Prophecy and Politics: Reflections on a Recent Campaign
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Prophecy and Politics: Reflections on a Recent Campaign (Mother Elizabeth Seton Lecture, January 17, 1985), Portsmouth Abbey Sch. 1985 Winter Bull., at…
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P 265 = JL 16635?: A Mild Heresy Stated and Defended
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., P 265 = JL 16635?: A Mild Heresy Stated and Defended, in “Ins Wasser geworfen und Ozeanae durchquert”: Festschrift für Knut Wolfgang…
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Charles Donahue, Jr., Preface, Introduction to Year Books of Richard II: 8–10 Richard II, 1385–1387 v, ix-xii (Leonard C. Hector & Michael E. Hager eds.,…
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Introduction to Henry Fielding, An Institute of the Pleas of the Crown: An Exhibition of the Hyde Collection at the Houghton Library
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Introduction to Henry Fielding, An Institute of the Pleas of the Crown: An Exhibition of the Hyde Collection at the Houghton Library…
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Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 34 Bull. Medieval Canon L. 281 (2017)(reviewing Bruce C. Brasington, Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation (2016)).
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Benvenuto Stracca’s De mercatura: Was There a Lex mercatoria in Sixteenth Century Italy?
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Benvenuto Stracca’s De mercatura: Was There a Lex mercatoria in Sixteenth Century Italy?, in From lex mercatoria to Commercial Law 69 (Vito…
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Reflections on the Editing of Medieval Church Court Records
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Reflections on the Editing of Medieval Church Court Records, in Iuris Historia: Liber Amicorum Gero Dolazalek 345 (Vincenzo Colli & Emanuele Conte…
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Aggadic Stories About Medieval Western Jurists?
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Aggadic Stories About Medieval Western Jurists?, 24 Diné Israel: Studies in Halakhah and Jewish Law 209 (2007).
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Charles Donahue, Jr., Bassianus, That Is to Say, Bazianus? — Bazianus and Johannes Bassianus on Marriage, 14 Rivista internazionale di diritto commune 41 (2003).
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Charles Donahue, Jr., Bassianus, That Is to Say, Bazianus? — Johannes Bassianus on Marriage, in ‘Panta rei’: Studi dedicati a Manlio Bellomo 179 (Orazio Condorelli…
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Charles Donahue, Jr., What Difference Does It Make If Marriage Is a Sacrament? An Historical Approach, in Jurisprudence of Marriage and Other Intimate Relationships 15…
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The Legal Professions of Fourteenth-Century England: Serjeants of the Common Bench and Advocates of the Court of Arches
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Legal Professions of Fourteenth-Century England: Serjeants of the Common Bench and Advocates of the Court of Arches, in Lawyers and Texts:…
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Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem: Autobiographical and Methodological Reflections
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem: Autobiographical and Methodological Reflections, in Texts and Contexts in Legal History: Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue…
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Magna Carta in the Fourteenth Century: From Law to Symbol?: Reflections on the “Six Statutes”
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Magna Carta in the Fourteenth Century: From Law to Symbol?: Reflections on the “Six Statutes”, 25 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J.
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The Legal Background: European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Legal Background: European Marriage Law from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century, in Marriage in Europe 1400–1800 33 (Silvana Seidel Menchi…
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Procedure in the Courts of the Ius commune
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Procedure in the Courts of the Ius commune, in The History of Courts and Procedure in Medieval Canon Law 74 (Wilfried Hartmann…
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The Ecclesiastical Courts: Introduction
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Ecclesiastical Courts: Introduction, in The History of Courts and Procedure in Medieval Canon Law 247 (Wilfried Hartmann & Kenneth Pennington eds.,…
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France and Adjoining Areas
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr. & Sara McDougall, France and Adjoining Areas, in The History of Courts and Procedure in Medieval Canon Law 300 (Wilfried Hartmann &…
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Popes Alexander III and Innocent III
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Popes Alexander III and Innocent III, in Christianity and Family Law 161 (John Witte, Jr. & Gary S. Hauk eds., 2017).
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Delictum est vobis quod judicia habebitis inter vos (1 Cor. 6:7): Defamation Cases in Ely Diocese, 1374–1382
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Delictum est vobis quod judicia habebitis inter vos (1 Cor. 6:7): Defamation Cases in Ely Diocese, 1374–1382, in From Learning to Love:…
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The Status of Women in the Laws of Æthelberht
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., The Status of Women in the Laws of Æthelberht, in Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England: Essays in Memory of…
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Another Way of Doing Manuscript Catalogues?
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Another Way of Doing Manuscript Catalogues?, in English Legal History and its Sources: Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker 282 (David…
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Book Review: Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 39 Quis Custodiet? 59 (1973)(reviewing John Noonan, Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia…
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Book Review: The English Church and its Laws, 12th—14th Centuries
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 72 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Kanonistische Abteilung 434 (1986)(reviewing Christopher R. Cheney, The English Church and its Laws, 12th—14th…
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St. German’s Doctor and Student
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 47 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 182 (1979)(reviewing St. German’s Doctor and Student, T.F.T. Plucknett & John L. Barton eds., 1979).
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Book Review: A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 43/44 Manuscripta 193 2003 (reviewing J.H. Baker, A Catalogue of English Legal Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library (1996)).
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Book Review: Les Officialités à la Veille du Concile de Trente
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 74 Mich. L. Rev. 644 (1976)(reviewing Anne Lefebvre-Teillard, Les Officialités à la Veille du Concile de Trente (1973)).
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Book Review: An American Experience in Roman Law
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 71 Mich. L. Rev. 1275 (1973)(reviewing Arthur Schiller, An American Experience in Roman Law (1971)).
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Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 67 Colum. L. Rev. 1353 (1967)(reviewing The Life of the Law: Readings on the Growth of Legal Institutions, John Honnold…
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Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 4 Law & Hist. Rev. 473 (1986)(reviewing Louis Théo Maes, Recht heeft vele significatie: Rechtshistorische opstellen van Prof. Dr. L.
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Book Review: R.H. Helmholz, Roman Canon Law in Reformation England
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 11 Law & Hist. Rev. 442 (1993)(reviewing R.H. Helmholz, Roman Canon Law in Reformation England (1990)).
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Book Review: R.H. Helmholz, The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s, 1 Oxford History of the Laws of England
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 25 Law & Hist. Rev. 217 (2007)(reviewing R.H. Helmholz, The Canon Law and Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s,…
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Book Review: Anders Winroth, The Making of Gratian’s Decretum
October 19, 2022
Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 25 Law & Hist. Rev. 401 (2007)(reviewing Anders Winroth, The Making of Gratian’s Decretum (2000)).