Education

Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, December 1982

M.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, June 1978

A.B., Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, December 1975 (with Highest Honors)

B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute, December 1972

Academic Appointments

1986-present: University of Baltimore, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies

Associate Professor (1992)

Director, Master of Arts in Legal and Ethical Studies (1991-1995, 2002-Present)

Divisional Chair (1995-1998)

Director, Jurisprudence Program (1998-2001)

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Richmond ,1983-1986

University of California, Part-time Faculty, Departments of Rhetoric and History 1978-1983.

Teaching Interests

Legal History (Common Law, Maryland)

Rhetorical Theory, Practical Argumentation, History of Ideas

Current Research Interests

Legal History: Early American, Maryland, Comparative

Recent Publications

"Distrust of the Legal Establishment in Perspective: Maryland During the Early National Years." The Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History 2/1&2 (1993): 1-40.

Printed Poison: Pamphlets, Faction Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth-Century France (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990)

"Benefit of Clergy' in Maryland and Virginia," American Journal of Legal History 33/1 (1990): 49-68.

"Judicial Corruption and Legal Reform in Early Seventeenth- Century France," Law and History Review 6/1 (1988): 95-117.

"Women, Law, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Early Harford County," Harford Historical Bulletin (Summer, 1999).

Work in Progress

"By the Book? Early Modern Law in Maryland, 1632-1833" Maryland Historical Society (forthcoming)