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Legal Historian Brand Joins Faculty Paul Brand has joined the faculty as a William W. Cook Global Law Professor. He is a senior research fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford, and a legal historian who specializes in Anglo-American common law during its first formative period, from the second half of the 12th century to the early 14th century. Beginning in the winter 2013 term, he will teach An Introduction to the Main Sources of English Legal History, 1200–1350. Brand’s books include The Origins of the English Legal Profession Profession, The Making of the Common Law, and Kings, Barons and Justices: The Making and Enforcement of Legislation in Thirteenth-Century England England. He has also edited four volumes of The Earliest English Law Reports, which include all the surviving pre-1290 law reports, and is working on further volumes, which will cover the much larger quantity of unedited law reports of the following two decades. He is also the author of a large number of articles. Brand previously was an assistant keeper at the Public Record Office in London, a lecturer in law at University College, Dublin, and a research fellow of the Institute of Historical Research in London. In 1997, he was elected a fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford. He has been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School and a distinguished visiting professor at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, as well as the Merriam Visiting Professor of Law at Arizona State University. In addition, he is a fellow of the British Academy and vice president of the Selden Society. Brand received his BA, MA, and DPhil from Oxford University.—LA
Criminal Law, Legal Philosophy Prof. Mendlow Joins Faculty Gabriel (Gabe) Mendlow has been hired by the Law School to teach criminal law, criminal procedure, and legal philosophy. During the 2012–2013 academic year, he will work full time in Detroit as a special assistant United States attorney in the General Crimes Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan. In the winter term, he will teach a Law School seminar called Moral Issues in Criminal Law, which will take a philosophical approach to such topics as the justification of punishment and the scope and limits of the criminal law. Before joining the Law School faculty, Mendlow served as law clerk to Justice Richard N. Palmer of the Connecticut Supreme Court and as postdoctoral 44
associate and law and philosophy fellow at Yale Law School and the Yale Philosophy Department. There, he taught philosophy graduate seminars on the nature and justification of criminal punishment and on action and moral responsibility. Mendlow holds a JD from Yale Law School, where he won the Felix S. Cohen Prize for the best essay on legal philosophy. He also holds a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University, where he was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship by the United States Department of Education. He earned an AB in social studies from Harvard College, magna cum laude with highest honors in field. Prof. Mendlow is admitted to practice law in Connecticut. He and his wife have two children.—LA