History Department

Research Focus

English history; legal history; local government; social history: 15th to 19th centuries.

Publications

The Justices of the Peace 1679-1760 (Berkeley, 1984)

N. Landau, ed; Law, Crime, and English Society, 1660-1815 (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

"Indictment for fun and profit: a prosecutor's reward at eighteenth-century Quarter Sessions," Law and History Review (1999)

"Who was subjected to the Laws of Settlement?," Agricultural History Review (1995)

"The context of the laws of settlement," Continuity and Change (1992)

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses: Law and the courts in early modern England
Graduate Courses: English history from the 16th to the 20th centuries; early modern Europe