Curriculum Vitae
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| PERSONAL | Born October 4, 1941, in New York, New York. American citizen. Married to the former Sheila Finn (on August 22, 1964), with one daughter, Sarah (now Greiner), born August 14, 1965, and two grandsons, Seamus Sebastian Greiner, born November 16, 2006, and Eamon Augustine Greiner, born February 24, 2010. |
| EMPLOYMENT | September, 1978 to present | HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | CAMBRIDGE, MA |
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Paul A. Freund Professor of Law, since June 1995 Visiting Professor of Law, Boston College School of Law, Newton, MA August to December, 2005 Visiting Professor of Law, Cornell University School of Law, Ithaca, NY August to December, 1996 Professor of Law, January, 1980 to June 1995 Visiting Professor of Law, Boston College School of Law, Newton, MA January to June, 1987 Visiting Professor of Law, September, 1978 to June 1979 |
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| June, 1968 to December, 1979 | UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF LAW | ANN ARBOR, MI |
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Professor, June, 1973 to December, 1979 Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University School of Law, Cambridge, MA September, 1978 to June, 1979 (see above) Visiting Professor of Law, University of California School of Law Boalt Hall), Berkeley, CA August to December, 1976 Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY January to June, 1976 Visiting Professor of Law, Vrije Universiteit te Brussel, Brussels, BELGIUM January to June, 1975 Associate Professor (with tenure), June, 1971 to June, 1973 Academic Visitor, Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK September, 1972 to June, 1973 Assistant Professor, June, 1968 to May, 1971 |
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| September, 1967 to June, 1968 | THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON POSTAL ORGANIZATION | WASHINGTON, DC |
| Assistant General Counsel | ||
| July, 1965 to August, 1967 | UNITED STATES AIR FORCE | WASHINGTON, DC |
| Attorney-Advisor, Office of the General Counsel, Office of the Secretary | Summer, 1964 | PAUL, WEISS, RIFKIND, WHARTON & GARRISON |
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| Summer Associate |
| EDUCATION | September, 1962 to June, 1965 | YALE LAW SCHOOL | NEW HAVEN, CT |
| Ll.B. 1965, Order of the Coif. Articles and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Special Divisional Program in Legal History directed by W. H. Dunham and Stephan Kuttner. | September, 1959 to June, 1962 | HARVARD COLLEGE | CAMBRIDGE, MA |
| A.B. 1962, magna cum laude, in Classics and English. Bachelor’s essay entitled “Romeo’s Sweet New Style.” | ||
| September, 1955 to June, 1959 | PORTSMOUTH PRIORY SCHOOL (now Portsmouth Abbey School) | PORTSMOUTH, RI |
| High School diploma, cum laude, first in class, 1959. |
| AWARDS |
Fellow, Royal Historical Society (UK), 1986 Docteur honoris causa, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), 2011 Fellow, Medieval Academy of American, 2012 Honorary Member, Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Chapter, 2012 |
| COURSES TAUGHT | (Those courses that have hyperlinks on them will take you to the website of the course in the most recent version that I gave it.) |
| Property (Law) | |
| Fall 1968, Winter 1969, Fall 1969 & Winter 1970, Fall 1970 & Winter 1971, Fall 1971 & Winter 1972, Fall 1973 & Winter 1974, Summer & Fall 1975, Winter 1976, Fall 1976, Fall 1977 & Winter 1978, Spring 1979, Fall 1979, Spring 1981, Spring 1982, Fall 1985 & Spring 1986, Fall 1987 & Spring 1988, Fall 1992, Fall 1995, Fall 1998, Fall 2000, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Fall 2012. | |
| Advanced Property (Family Property Transactions: Wills and Trusts [with some Real Estate]) | |
| Fall 1983, Fall 1984, Fall 1985, Spring 1987, Fall 1988, Fall 1989, Fall 1990, Fall 1991, Fall 1993, Fall 1994. | |
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Wills and Trusts |
| Fall 1999, Spring 2002. | Regulated Industries |
| Summer 1968, Summer 1969, Summer 1972. | |
| Federal Anti-trust | |
| Fall 1969, Fall 1970, Fall, 1973, Winter 1975, Fall 1978, Spring 1980, Winter 1981. | |
| Roman Law (Introduction) (Law) | |
| Winter 1971, Winter 1974, Winter 1976, Winter 1977, Spring 1980, Spring 1981, Spring 1984, Spring 1986, Spring 1988, Fall 1991, Fall 1994, Fall 1997, Fall 1999, Fall 2002, Fall 2004, Fall 2007 (with A. Lanni). | |
| Continental Legal History (survey) (Law) (FAS = Medieval Studies 119) | |
| Fall 1990, Fall 1993, Spring 1995, Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2013. | |
| Continental Legal History (seminar) ( Law) (FAS = History 2080 [formerly History 2126] | |
| Fall 1984 & Spring 1985, Fall 1988 & Spring 1989, Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2013. | |
| English Constitutional History to 1485 | |
| Fall 1977, Fall 1979, Spring 1991. | |
| English Legal History (survey) (Law) (FAS = Medieval Studies 117) | |
| Fall 1983, Fall 1984, Winter 1986, Fall 1987, Fall 1988, Fall 1989, Spring 1991, Spring 1992, Spring 1994, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, Spring 1999, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2012. | |
| English Legal History (seminar) (Law) (FAS = History 2080 [formerly History 2126]) | |
| Fall 1977, Fall 1979, Spring 1985, Spring 1999, Spring 2002, Spring 2004, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2012. | |
| History of Marriage Law (seminar) | |
| Fall, 2005. | |
| Law, Morals and Theology (seminar) | |
| Fall, 1996, Fall 1997 | |
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Canon Law (seminar) |
| Spring 1987. | |
| Marital Property (seminar) | |
| Fall 1975, Winter 1978. | |
| Legal Philosophy (with D. Regan) | |
| Winter 1972. | |
| In addition, I regularly give reading courses for graduate students in Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences and in the Harvard Law School in various aspects of Roman law and medieval and early modern English and Continental legal and constitutional history. I also serve on doctoral dissertation committees in the same fields in both faculties. |
| MEMBERSHIPS |
New York, Michigan (inactive) and United States Supreme
Court bars and the bars of various lower federal courts American Law Institute (life member) American Society for Legal History (director 1977–79; vice-president 1982–85, president-elect 2004–5, president 2006–8, immediate past president 2008–9, member Finance Committee 2009– .) Selden Society (UK) (vice-president 1984–87, councilor 1987– , honorary treasurer for the U.S.A. 1987– ) American Historical Association Societé d’histoire du droit (France) Societé pour l’histoire des droits de l’antiquité (Belgium) Medieval Academy of America (life member; fellow 2012– ) Ecclesiastical History Society (UK) Canterbury and York Society (UK) Ames Foundation (director 1980– , literary director 1989– , vice-president 1991– ) Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) (1986– ) Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consortio (CH) (secretary, 2000–8). |
| LANGUAGES | Classical and Medieval Latin (reading), Classical Greek (some reading), Biblical Hebrew (some reading), French (reading and speaking), German (reading and some speaking), Italian (reading and some speaking), Dutch (smattering), Anglo-Saxon (smattering). |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | For a complete listing click here. |