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Chinese, and Italian translations forthcoming)
Faking It (Cambridge University Press, 2003;
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translation forthcoming)
The Mystery of Courage (Harvard University Press, 2000);
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The Anatomy of Disgust (Harvard University
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1999, Slovenian
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and other essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence (Cornell University Press, 1993); paperback,
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27-48; a
somewhat different version appears in The Passions of the Law
edited by
Susan Bandes (New York: NYU Press, 1999),
241-264 and
in Demokratie, Recht
und soziale Kontrolle
im klassischen
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“Near Misses,” Michigan
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excerpted in Harper’s 298 (June, 1999), 26-27.
“In Defense
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“Sheep,
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“
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J. D.,
Ph.D.
in
English,
M. Phil. in
English,
B. A. in History,
Thomas G. Long Professor of Law,
Carnegie Centenary Professor, University of
St. Andrews, 2007
Professor of Law,
University of
Michigan, 1985-1998.
Courses:
Property, Negotiations, Bloodfeuds.
Seminars:
Violence; Humiliation; Disgust; Cowardice; Earliest English Laws,
Faking It
Visiting Professor, Law Faculty,
Visiting Professor,
Visiting Professor, Department of History,
Visiting Professor, University of Chicago Law
School,
1990 (fall)
Visiting Professor,
Visiting Assoc. Professor of Law, University
of
Michigan, 1984-85
Assoc. Professor of Law,
University
of Houston, 1981-84.
Asst. Professor of
English,
Visiting Lecturer in English,