Staff

Steering Committee:

Professor Lorna Hutson
School of English (Director)
Law and rhetoric; evidential paradigms in fiction and drama

Professor Robert Houston
School of History
Scottish and English social history, 1550-1800

Professor John Hudson
School of History
Law, lordship and literature from the 9th to the 13th century in England and France.

 

Centre Members:

Dr Margaret Connolly
School of English
Reading and book and manuscript ownership among 16th century English lawyers

Dr Alex Davis
School of English
English Literature and culture of the 16th and 17th centuries: the legacy as metaphor

Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker
School of History
Power, law, government and violence in the later Middle Ages, especially in France.  

Professor Steve Murdoch
School of History
The development of maritime law; legal studies of cases of privateering and piracy.

Dr Jane Pettegree
School of English
Legal accommodations of insanity in early modern Europe

Visiting and Corresponding Members

 

Professor Bradin Cormack 
Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago. 
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British literature as it relates to early legal culture. 

Professor Bill Miller
Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and Visiting Professor, University of St Andrews
Blood feuds, revenge, retribution and the law of the talion in Iceland; law and emotion

Professor Stephen White
Asa G. Candler Professor, Emory, and Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews
Disputes, dispute-processing, violence, law and literature; currently working on treason trials in Old French literatur