William Ian (Bill) Miller

Thomas G. Long Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel: 734-763-9014; Fax: 734-763-9375
Email: wimiller@umich.edu

 

Areas of Interest: Icelandic Sagas; Medieval History;
Social and Political Theory; Emotions; Vices and Virtues.

Bill Miller

 



Books:


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Eye for an Eye (Cambridge University Press, 2006; paperback 2007); see interview in Salon

Faking It (Cambridge University Press, 2003; paperback, 2005)

The Mystery of Courage (Harvard University Press, 2000; paperback, 2002)

The Anatomy of Disgust (Harvard University Press, 1997; paperback, 1998).  (Chosen best book in sociology/anthropology by the Association of American Publishers, 1997.)

Humiliation (Cornell University Press, 1993; paperback, 1995) 

Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (University of Chicago Press, 1990; paperback, 1996) 

Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland (with T. Andersson; Stanford University Press, 1989)

 

Some recent and not so recent articles and essays; for a full bibliography click here.

·        “Deceit in War and Trade,” in The Philosophy of Deception, ed. Clancy Martin (Oxford University Press, 2009), 49-66.

·        “Death, Danger, and … Dieting?” In Character (Winter 2009), 4-11.

·        “Is a Gift Forever,” Representations No. 100 (2007), 13-22.

·        “Home and Homelessness in the Middle of Nowhere,” in Home and Homelessness in the Medieval and Renaissance World, ed. Nicholas Howe (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), 125-42.

·        “Near Misses,” Michigan Quarterly Review 38 (1999), 1-15. 

·        “Sheep, Joking, Cloning and the Uncanny,” in Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning,” edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Cass R. Sunstein (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 78-87. 

·        “Clint Eastwood and Equity: The Virtues of Revenge and the Shortcomings of Law in Popular Culture,” in Law and the Domains of Culture, edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), 161-202.

·        “Gluttony,” Representations No. 60 (1997), 92-112.

·        “Sanctuary, Redlight Districts, and Washington, D.C.,” Stanford Law Review 48 (1996), 1235-1246.

·        “Deep Inner Lives, Individualism, and People of Honour,” History of Political Thought 16 (1995), 190-207.

·        “‘I can take a hint’: Social Ineptitude, Embarrassment, and The King of Comedy,” Michigan Quarterly Review 33 (1994), 322-44.

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