List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction Elizabeth Papp Kamali and Saskia Lettmaier Part 1 Roman Law 1 Towards a Taxonomy of Witnesses in Roman Law James R. Townshend 2 "Si Bononiensis": Glossators and the Conflicts of Law Nikitas Hatzimihail 3 Roman Property, Corporate Personhood, and the Politics of Natural Law in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: Venice, Baldus, and the res communes omnium Charles Bartlett 4 Abandonment, animus and animalia ferae naturae in Hugo Grotius'' De iure belli ac pacis Daniel Jacobs 5 "For the Sake of Mental Health and Mutual Peace": The Transactio- Agreement in Early Modern Law and Theology Wim Decock Part 2 Women, Marriage, and the Law 6 Consent in Medieval English Marriage and Misconduct Elizabeth Papp Kamali 7 Written Law and Practice: Realities for Women in Bas Languedoc in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch 8 Sex with Nuns in Medieval France Sara McDougall 9 Oikos and Oikonomika: The Early Modern Family as a Matrix of Modern Economics John Witte 10 Legal and Factual Uncertainty in a Seventeenth-Century French Marriage Case Saskia Lettmaier 11 Marriage Law between East and West: Charles Maigrot''s Dissertatio de Matrimonio Sinarum Stuart M. McManus Part 3 Medieval and Early Modern Law 12 Getting Ahead in a Twelfth-Century City: The Ambitious Monks of Saint-Clément, Metz Samantha Kahn Herrick 13 The Papal Constitution Execrabilis (1317) and Clerical Justices in the English Royal Courts Ryan Rowberry 14 Dangerous Dreams: Le Songe du Vergier and the Expulsion of Jews from Fourteenth-Century France Rowan Dorin 15 Suicide in Early Modern Italy Elizabeth W. Mellyn 16 The "Desire of Deeds": On Cherishing Medieval English Charters Carol Symes Part 4 American Legal History 17 Lawyers and Their Book Collections: Notes from the Eighteenth Century Sally E. Hadden 18 The American Importation of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide: Francis Lieber''s Failed Transplant and Its Early Twentieth-Century Resurgence Amalia D. Kessler Part 5 Literature and Legal Theory 19 Faust: Goethe''s Guide to Legal Progress Anton Chaevitch 20 Wesley Hohfeld''s Modernist Imagination Bharath Palle Appendix: Reflections from Former Students Appendix 1 When Giants Roamed: A Reflection Thomas S. Burns Appendix 2 De magistro eruditissimo et beneficentissimo: A Reflection Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas Appendix 3 The Teachings of Charles Donahue on the Middle Ages from the Perspective of a Student of Mexican Legal History: A Reflection William Suárez-Potts Appendix 4 Chi Squares, Chant, and Charlie: A Reflection Claire Valente BibliographyIndex.