Professor James Whitman
Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School

“Of Wars and Trials:  Can a War be a Lawful Procedure for Claiming Rights?”

4:00 - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

McCarthy Tétrault Classroom (A)
Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park Cres.
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

This year’s Wright Lecture was from  James Whitman’s forthcoming book, The Verdict of Battle, published in late October 2012. 

James Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School. His subjects are comparative law, contracts, criminal law, and European legal history. His published books and articles include The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial; Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe; and The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty. Professor Whitman received a B.A. and a J.D. from Yale, an M.A. from Columbia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.