Faculty

W&L Steering Committee

Louise A. Halper [harperl@wlu.edu] is Professor of Law. She received her B.A. with honors from Brandeis University, her J.D. from Rutgers University, and her LL.M. from New York University. She practiced public interest law for fifteen years and joined the W&L faculty in 1991. She teaches courses in property, environmental law, and American legal history, as well as seminars in law and gender, jurisprudence, and critical legal theory. Among her recent articles at the intersection of law, history, and jurisprudence is "Measure for Measure: Law, Prerogative, Subversion," 13 Cardozo Stud. L. Literature 221 (2001). She has been a Fulbright Fellow at Marmara University and a visiting scholar at Koc University, both in Istanbul. She is currently working on a project comparing the history of legal change in gender regulation in Turkey and Iran, both of which she visited on sabbatical in 2002-03. The first piece of that project, "Seeing through the Veil: Iranian Women's Negotiations of Law and Gender," will be published this fall in the Harvard Women's Law Journal.

David Millon [millond@wlu.edu] is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the J.B. Stombock Professor of Law. He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from Ohio State and a Ph.D. and second M.A. from Cornell. At Cornell, his dissertation, titled "Common Law and Canon Law During the Reign of Edward I," was supervised by Brian Tierney. After receiving a law degree from Harvard, he practiced law in Boston for three years before moving to W&L in 1986. In addition to English legal history, he also teaches corporate law and has taught antitrust, contracts, and non-profit organizations. His publications in legal history include papers on the history of the jury (in Law & Social Inquiry and the Wisconsin Law Review) and on the relations between the common law and canon law jurisdictions in medieval England (in Law and History Review and the University of Illinois Law Review). He has also written on the history of corporate and antitrust law. He is currently at work on a book-length study of the ideological foundations of the premodern common law and, for the Selden Society, a volume on writs of prohibition and other cases involving church-state jurisdictional matters.

W&L Affiliated Faculty

George Bent [bentg@wlu.edu] is associate professor of Art History and associate dean of the College. He received his B.A. with highest honors in History from Oberlin College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History of Art from Stanford University. His research focuses on painting and patronage in Florence in the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries.

Edwin D. Craun [craune@wlu.edu] is the Henry S. Fox, Jr., Professor of English. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and has been a fellow of the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His research focuses on issues of justice, law, and social reform in medieval literature, with an emphasis on the clergy's rhetoric for controlling speech. He is the author of Lies, Slander, and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker (Cambridge, 1997). He is also working on a book examining the norms the clergy tried to persuade the civil lawyers to adopt in the fourteenth century.

Kevin Crotty [crottyk@wlu.edu] is Professor of Classics and Law and chair of the Classics Department. He holds degrees from the Harvard Law School (J.D. 1984) and Yale University (Ph.D. in Classics, 1975). He is the author of Law's Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self (Cornell, 2001), a study of legal theory and of the relation between law and literature. His other books include The Poetics of Supplication: Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Cornell, 1994) and Song and Action: The Victory Odes of Pindar (Johns Hopkins, 1982). Before joining the faculty at Washington and Lee, he practiced law for ten years at Hughes, Hubbard and Reed in New York and Washington, D.C., and was a member of the Classics faculty at Yale University from 1975 to 1981. He is currently working in and around the areas of ancient theories of law and contemporary jurisprudence.

Theodore DeLaney [delaneyt@wlu.edu] is associate professor of History. He received his bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University and his Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary. He teaches in the field of American history, with a specialization in African-American history, slavery, and the civil rights movement. In 2003, he is organizing a major conference on the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.

Genelle Gertz-Robinson [gertz-robinsong@wlu.edu] is assistant professor of English. She received her B.A. from Wheaton College, her M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She joined the W&L faculty in 2003, teaching courses in medieval and renaissance English literature, including a seminar on trials, torture and the truth. She is currently writing a book on Trying Testimony: Heresy, Interrogation, and the English Woman Writer, 1400-1670.

John N. Jacob [jacobj@wlu.edu] has been director of the Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives since its inception in 1992. He received his B.A. in philosophy and MLS, with a concentration in modern archival administration, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He worked at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and headed the library and archival programs of the George C. Marshall Research Foundation before coming to W&L. He is author of The George C. Marshall Papers, 1932-1960: A Guide and The Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Papers. His electronic guides to the holdings of the Powell Archives are part of the Virginia Heritage Project, honored with the SOLPA (Solinet Library Programs Award) Preservation and Access Prize in March 2003.

Krzysztof Jasiewicz [jasiewiczk@wlu.edu] is Professor of Sociology. He received his M.A. with honors from Warsaw University and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is the author or editor of several books, the most recent being Sustainable Democracy in Post-Communist Europe: Public Attitudes and Elite Actions (1999). His research focuses on the development of democracy in Poland, including the history of the Polish constitution and the evolution of electoral systems.

Timothy Lubin [lubint@wlu.edu] is associate professor of Religion. He received his B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., from Columbia University and his M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School. He joined the W&L faculty in 1997. His research focuses in the history of Brahmanical Hinduism in India, including the development of classical Hindu law.

James E. Mahon [mahonj@wlu.edu] is assistant professor of Philosophy. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Modern English with Double First Class Honours from Trinity College, Dublin, his M.Phil. in Philosophy from Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Duke University, where his dissertation was supervised by Alasdair MacIntyre. He joined the W&L faculty in 2000. He specializes in the history of modern philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of law. In Fall 2003, he will be a visiting scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Cambridge University.

J. Holt Merchant [merchanth@wlu.edu] is Professor of History and chair of the History Department. He received his B.A. from Washington and Lee University and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He is an expert on American history, particularly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Among the many courses he has taught is a course on the history of the U.S. Constitution.

David Novack [novackd@wlu.edu] is Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He holds degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (B.A.1966) and New York University (M.A. 1970, Ph.D. 1975.). He joined the faculty at Washington and Lee in 1976. His teaching specialties are racial and ethnic relations, gender relations, and deviance. His research examines changes in law that impact on racial groups, especially in the context of legal safeguards and affirmative action. He also studies changing social constructions of criminality and deviance and historical and legal changes as they pertain to gender meanings and rights accorded specific gendered categories and as they apply to modifications in the adjudication of rape and sexual assault.

David Peterson [petersond@wlu.edu] is associate professor of History and chair of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program. He received a B.A. with High Honors from the College of William and Mary, a B.Litt. from Edinburgh University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, where he studied under Brian Tierney and John Najemy. Before moving to Washington and Lee in 1999, he taught at Cornell, Stanford, and the University of Texas at Austin. He has also been an NEH Research Fellow at the Newberry Library and a Mellon Fellow at the National Humanities Center. He specializes in medieval and renaissance political thought.

Domnica Radulescu [radulescud@wlu.edu] is professor of Romance Languages. She received her B.A. in English from Loyola University of Chicago and her M.A. in Comparative Literature and her Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago. She joined the faculty of Washington and Lee in 1992. An actor, director, and scholar, she uses literary sources, especially plays, to study the law's effect on women in classical antiquity and nineteenth century France.