James Whitman

James Q. Whitman is an American lawyer, and Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, at Yale University.^[1]

He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and a J.D., from Columbia University with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. He was a Guggenheim Fellow.^[2][3]

Works

• The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial. Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11600-7.
• Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-518260-6.
• "The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty", Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, April 2004
• The legacy of Roman law in the German romantic era: historical vision and legal change, Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-05560-2

References

1. http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/JWhitman.htm
2. http://www.gf.org/fellows/16889-james-q-whitman
3. http://www.law.yale.edu/news/11550.htm