Professor
Awards and Honors
H. Mebane Turner Professor of Early American History
Education
Ph.D., University of California
B.A., University of California
B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute
""By the Book?" Maryland Judicial Practice 1670-1680" (On-Going)
A critical edition of a seventeenth century manuscript entitled "The Stile of the Provincial Court." This was a summary of Maryland Law written for practitioners and is possibly one of the first colonial handbooks of legal procedure.
"Book Review (in progress)" (On-Going)
Billings & Tarter, "Estemed Bookes of Lawe"
"Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland" (On-Going)
Scholarly article / conference presentation on the commission and punishment of felonies in early Maryland
"Maryland's First Law School Curriculum" (On-Going)
A small pamphlet or law review article; detailing and explaining the contents a manuscript attributed to Samuel Chase, Maryland Jurist and Supreme Courts justice, c. 1800