Langbein, John Harriss

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LANGBEIN, John Harriss

LANGBEIN, John Harriss. American, b. 1941. Genres: History, Law. Career: University of Chicago Law School, assistant professor, 1971-73, associate professor, 1973-74, professor, 1974-80, Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law, 1980-90; Yale University, New Haven, CT, Chancellor Kent Professor, 1990-2001, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, 2001-. Publications: Prosecuting Crime in the Renaissance: England, Germany, France, 1974; Torture and the Law of Proof: Europe and England in the Ancien Raegime, 1977; Comparative Criminal Procedure: Germany, 1977; (with L. Waggoner) Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates, 1987, 2001; (with B. Wolk) Pension and Employee Benefit Law, 1990, 3rd ed., 2000; (with R.H. Helmholz et al.) The Privilege against Self-Incrimination, 1997. Address: Yale Law School, PO Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520-8215, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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