JEFFREY K. SAWYER

CURRICULUM VITAE (2/2/95)

• Current Research Interests
  • Legal History: Early American, Maryland, Comparative
• Teaching Interests
  • Legal History (Common Law, Maryland)
  • Rhetorical Theory; Practical Argumentation, History of Ideas
• Education
  • Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, December 1982
  • M.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, June 1978
  • A.B., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, December 1975 (with Highest Honors)
  • B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, December 1972
• Academic Appointments
  • 1986-present: University of Baltimore, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies;
    • Associate Professor (1992); Director, Master of Arts in Legal and Ethical Studies (1991-1995); Divisional Chair (1995--present); Director, Jurisprudence Program (1996-present)
  • Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Richmond ,1983-1986
  • University of California, Part-time Faculty, Departments of Rhetoric and History 1978-1983.
• Recent Publications
  • "Distrust of the Legal Establishment in Perspective: Maryland During the Early National Years." The Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History 2/1&2 (1993): 1-40.
  • Printed Poison: Pamphlets, Faction Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth-Century France (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990)
  • "'Benefit of Clergy' in Maryland and Virginia," American Journal of Legal History 33/1 (1990): 49-68.
  • "Judicial Corruption and Legal Reform in Early Seventeenth- Century France," Law and History Review 6/1 (1988): 95-117.
  • "Women, Law, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Early Harford County," Harford Historical Bulletin (Summer, 1999).
• Address
  • University of Baltimore, College of Liberal Arts, 1420 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. jsawyer@ubmail.ubalt.edu
  • Phone:(410) 837-5327, Fax (410) 837-5336