Thomas A. Green

Thomas A. Green, the John P. Dawson Collegiate Professor of Law emeritus and professor emeritus of history, is a graduate of Columbia University. He received a PhD in history from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School. He taught medieval and English history at Bard College. At Michigan, he taught English and American legal history to both law students and to students of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. His primary research interest is the history of criminal law. He emphasizes the cultural foundations of law and legal institutions, with a main emphasis on the social and intellectual history of the criminal trial jury and concepts about criminal responsibility. He is the author of "Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Pound" (Michigan Law Review, June 1995), and editor of Studies in Legal History, sponsored by the American Society for Legal History. Professor Green is also the co-editor of On the Laws and Customs of England: Essays in Honor of Samuel E. Thorne(1981) and Twelve Good Men and True: The Criminal Trial Jury, 1200-1800 (1988). His book, Freedom and Criminal Responsibility in American Legal Thought (Cambridge U. P.), is forthcoming in 2013. Professor Green has taught at the law faculties of the University of Ljubljana and Tel Aviv University. In 2003 he was the Harvey and Susan Perlman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University Of Nebraska College Of Law. He served as President of the American Society for Legal History, 2000-2001.  He is currently working on the history of the American criminal trial jury and criminal responsibility.