Learned and Lived Law

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, J.D. (2007), Harvard Law School, Ph.D. (2015), University of Michigan, is the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge, 2019).Saskia Lettmaier, S.J.D. (2015), Harvard Law School, is Professor on the Faculty of Law, University of Kiel, Hamburg, and author of Broken Engagements: The Action for Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Feminine Ideal, 1800-1940 (Oxford, 2010), as well as Spouses, Church, and State: Marriage Law in England and Protestant Germany from the Reformation until the Close of the Nineteenth Century (Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming).Nikitas E. Hatzimihail, S.J.D. (2002), Harvard Law School, is Professor in the Department of Law, University of Cyprus and author of Preclassical Conflict of Laws (Cambridge, 2023).

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionElizabeth Papp Kamali and Saskia LettmaierPart 1Roman Law1 Towards a Taxonomy of Witnesses in Roman LawJames R. Townshend2 “Si Bononiensis”: Glossators and the Conflicts of LawNikitas Hatzimihail3 Roman Property, Corporate Personhood, and the Politics of Natural Law in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: Venice, Baldus, and the res communes omniumCharles Bartlett4 Abandonment, animus and animalia ferae naturae in Hugo Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacisDaniel Jacobs5 “For the Sake of Mental Health and Mutual Peace”: The Transactio-Agreement in Early Modern Law and TheologyWim DecockPart 2Women, Marriage, and the Law6 Consent in Medieval English Marriage and MisconductElizabeth Papp Kamali7 Written Law and Practice: Realities for Women in Bas Languedoc in the Eleventh and Twelfth CenturiesElizabeth Haluska-Rausch8 Sex with Nuns in Medieval FranceSara McDougall9 Oikos and Oikonomika: The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern EconomicsJohn Witte10 Legal and Factual Uncertainty in a Seventeenth-Century French Marriage CaseSaskia Lettmaier11 Marriage Law between East and West: Charles Maigrot’s Dissertatio de Matrimonio SinarumStuart M. McManusPart 3Medieval and Early Modern Law12 Getting Ahead in a Twelfth-Century City: The Ambitious Monks of Saint-Clément, MetzSamantha Kahn Herrick13 The Papal Constitution Execrabilis (1317) and Clerical Justices in the English Royal CourtsRyan Rowberry14 Dangerous Dreams: Le Songe du Vergier and the Expulsion of Jews from Fourteenth-Century FranceRowan Dorin15 Suicide in Early Modern ItalyElizabeth W. Mellyn16 The “Desire of Deeds”: On Cherishing Medieval English ChartersCarol SymesPart 4American Legal History17 Lawyers and Their Book Collections: Notes from the Eighteenth CenturySally E. Hadden18 The American Importation of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide: Francis Lieber’s Failed Transplant and Its Early Twentieth-Century ResurgenceAmalia D. KesslerPart 5Literature and Legal Theory19 Faust: Goethe’s Guide to Legal ProgressAnton Chaevitch20 Wesley Hohfeld’s Modernist ImaginationBharath PalleAppendix: Reflections from Former StudentsAppendix 1 When Giants Roamed: A ReflectionThomas S. BurnsAppendix 2 De magistro eruditissimo et beneficentissimo: A ReflectionMary Elizabeth Basile ChopasAppendix 3 The Teachings of Charles Donahue on the Middle Ages from the Perspective of a Student of Mexican Legal History: A ReflectionWilliam Suárez-PottsAppendix 4 Chi Squares, Chant, and Charlie: A ReflectionClaire ValenteBibliographyIndex