Susanna L. BlumenthalAssociate ProfessorHarvard-Radcliffe College, A.B. Professor Susanna L. Blumenthal researches and teaches in the areas of American legal history, criminal law, property, and trusts and estates. She is currently working on a book that traces changing conceptions of human agency and responsibility through the history of American law. Professor Blumenthal received her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College and then spent a year on fellowship at Oxford. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a Coker Teaching Fellow and an editor of the Yale Law Journal. She was also awarded a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and her dissertation received the George Washington Egleston Prize for Best Dissertation: American History. Her most recent articles, which explore the historical relationship between law and the human sciences, appear in the Harvard Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Law and History Review. Before joining the Minnesota faculty, she served as a law clerk to Judge Kimba M. Wood, Southern District of New York, and as a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History at NYU School of Law. In 2003–2004, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and also held a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. |