William Ian
Miller
Law School
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(734) 763-9014
Homepage: www.umich.edu/~wimiller/
Fax: (734) 763-9375
Bibliography
Books
Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a
Medieval Tale of Risky Business (Brill, 2008). Vol. 1 in series Medieval
Law and Practice, ed. John Hudson.
Eye for an Eye Cambridge University Press, 2006; Arabic,
Italian, Chinese translations, 2008.
Faking It (Cambridge University Press, 2003); paperback, 2005.
(Turkish translation forthcoming).
The Mystery of Courage (Harvard University Press, 2000);
paperback 2002; Spanish translation, 2005.
The Anatomy of Disgust (Harvard University Press, 1997);
paperback 1998. Spanish and Italian translations, 1999, Slovenian
translation, 2006. Chosen best book by the Association of American
Publishers, 1997, in sociology/anthropology.
Humiliation: and other essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and
Violence (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: Ljósvetninga saga and
Valla-Ljóts saga (Stanford University Press, 1989) (with Theodore M.
Andersson).
Articles and Essays
“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.
“Of Optimal Views and other Anxieties of Attending to the Beautiful and
Sublime,” Journal of Visual Culture 1 (2002), 71-85.
“Weak Legs: Misbehavior Before the Enemy,” Representations, No.
70 (2000), 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 Athen edited by David Cohen Elisabeth Müller-Luckner.
München: Oldenbourg, 2002.
“Near Misses,” Michigan Quarterly Review 38 (1999), 1-15;
excerpted in Harper’s 298 (June, 1999), 26-27.
“In Defense of Revenge,” in Medieval Crime and Social Control,
eds. Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1999), 70-89.
“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 in the Domains of Culture,
eds. Austin Sarat and Thomas Kearns (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 1998), 161-202.
“Gluttony,” Representations, No. 60 (Fall, 1997), 92-112. Repr.
with substantial additions in Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the
Seven Deadly Sins, ed. Robert C. Solomon (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman
and Littlefield, 1999), 19-50.
“Sanctuary, Redlight Districts, and Washington, D.C.: Some
Observations on Neuman’s Anomalous Zones,” Stanford Law Review
48 (1996), 1235-1246.
“Upward Contempt,” Political Theory 23 (1995), 476-99.
“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;
reprinted in The Movies: eds. Laurence Goldstein and Ira
Konigsberg (University of Michigan Press, 1996), 75-97.
“Sagas and Emotions.” In From Sagas to Society, ed. Gísli
Pálsson (Middlesex, UK: Hisarlik Press, 1992), 89-109.
“Of Outlaws, Christians, Horsemeat, and Writing: Uniform Laws and
Saga Iceland,” Michigan Law Review 89 (1991) 2081-95.
“Some Aspects of Householding in the Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth,” Continuity
and Change 3 (1988), 321-55.
“Beating Up on Women and Old Men and Other Enormities: A Social
Historical Inquiry in to Literary Sources,” Mercer Law Review
39 (1988), 753-766.
“Ordeal in Iceland,” Scandinavian Studies 60 (1988), 189-218.
“Dreams, Prophecy and Sorcery: Blaming the Secret Offender in Medieval
Iceland,” Scandinavian Studies 58 (1986), 101-123.
“Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid: The Negotiation and Classification of
Exchange in Medieval Iceland,” Speculum 61 (1986), 18-50.
“Avoiding Legal Judgment: The Submission of Disputes to Arbitration in
Medieval Iceland,” American Journal of Legal History 28 (1984),
95-134.
“Choosing the Avenger: Some Aspects of the Bloodfeud in Medieval
Iceland and England,” Law and History Review 1 (1983), 159-204.
“Justifying Skarpheðinn: Of Pretext and Politics in the Icelandic
Bloodfeud,” Scandinavian Studies 55 (1983), 316-344. Reprinted
with revisions as “The Central Feud in Njáls Saga,” in Sagas of the
Icelanders, ed. John Tucker (New York: Garland, 1989), 292-322.
“Dorothy Thompson and the Court-Packing Plan: Of Muse and Men,” Houston
Law Review 19 (1982), 695-711.
Occasional Pieces
“I’m sorry, so sorry, so very, very sorry,” Globe and Mail Dec.
22, 2007.
“Oko za oko: obračunavanje s talionom,” Pamfil (Dec. 2005),
6-13, Slovenian trans, Lucija Učakar.
“Yale Kamisar: Up Close and Personal.” Ohio State Journal of
Criminal Law 2 (2004), 65-67.
“Shapes of Courage,” Harper’s 301 (Oct., 2000), 21-24
(excerpted with changes from The Mystery of Courage).
“Journal: Ann Arbor, December 1997,” The American Scholar 67
(1998), No. 2, 143-46.
“Giving the Gift of Humiliation,” Harper’s 288 (Feb. 1994),
26-7. (A short excerpt from ch. 1 of Humiliation.)
“Hœnsa-Þóris saga,” The Encyclopedia of Medieval Scandinavia
(Garland Press, 1992).
“Diebstahl, England,” Lexikon des Mittelalters im Artemis
Verlag (Munich), cols. 992-993 (1985).
“A Relic of Divine Dispensation,” The Explicator 42, No.4
(1984), 2-4.
“The Middle English Ballad ‘Robyn and Gandeleyn’ (l.57),” Notes and
Queries NS 25 (1978), 30-1.
Reviews
Review of Alexandra Cuffel, Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious
Polemic. Medievalia et Humanistica NS no. 34 (2008), 161-165.
Review of J. A. Burrow, Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative.
The Medieval Review http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/; (2003), TMR
ID: 03.01.34.
Review of Jon Elster, Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the
Emotions. London Review of Books (10 August, 2000), 36-37.
Review of Bruce Lincoln, Authority: Construction and Corrosion.
History of Political Thought 17 (1996), 453-454.
Review of Kirsten Hastrup, Culture and History in Medieval Iceland,
Scandinavian Studies 58 (1986), 183-186.
Review of John Bossy, ed., Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human
Relations in the West, American Journal of Legal History 30 (1986),
266-68.
Review of Carola L. Gottzmann, Njáls saga: Rechtsproblematik im
Dienste sozio-kultureller Deutung, Scandinavian Studies 57 (1985),
84-85.
Review of J. L. Byock, Feud in the Icelandic Saga, Speculum 59
(1984), 376-79.