James Whitman

James Q. Whitman is an American lawyer and Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University.[1]

James Whitman
OccupationProfessor, writer
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow
Academic background
EducationYale University (B.A., 1980)
Columbia University (M.A., 1982)
University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1987)
Yale Law School (J.D., 1988)
ThesisRule of Roman Law in Romantic Germany, 1790-1860 (1987)
Doctoral advisorArnaldo Momigliano
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineComparative Law, Comparative Legal History
InstitutionsStanford University, Yale University
Main interestsLegal history

He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and a J.D., from Columbia University with a M.A., and from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. He was a Guggenheim Fellow.[2][3] In 2015, he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the KU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)

Whitman's 2017 book, Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, received critical acclaim.[4][5] Neoconservative scholar Joshua Muravchik dismissed the book as mere reductio ad Hitlerum.[6]

In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AASS).[7]

Works
  • The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War. Harvard University Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-674-06714-1.
  • The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial. Yale University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11600-7.
  • Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between America and Europe. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-518260-6.
  • "The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Dignity versus Liberty", Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, April 2004
  • The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change, Princeton University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-691-05560-2
  • Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Princeton University Press, 2017.[8] ISBN 978-0691172422
  • Why the Nazis studied American race laws for inspiration. Aeon, 13 December 2016

References
  1. James Q. Whitman Page. Yale Law School website.
  2. James Q. Whitman Page. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Website.
  3. Professors James Whitman ’88 and John Witt ’99 Win Guggenheim Fellowships. April 19, 2010.
  4. McLemee, Scott (March 8, 2017). "Taking on the Alt-Reich". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  5. Guo, Jeff (May 19, 2017). "The Nazis as students of America's worst racial atrocities". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
  6. Muravchik, Joshua (9 March 2017). "Did American Racism Inspire the Nazis?". Mosaic Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  7. "Five professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. Retrieved 2017-04-18.
  8. Ira Katznelson. "What America Taught the Nazis; In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States". Theatlantic.com. Retrieved 22 October 2017. November 2017 Issue
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