CONTACT INFORMATION:
Assistant Professor of History and Law
Department of History and Law
University of Wisconsin-Madison
455 N. Park St. - 3211 Humanities Building
Madison, WI 53706 USA
| Office Telephone: | (608) 263-1830 |
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| Active email: | kbshoemaker@wisc.edu |
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Sanctuary Law
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
“Revenge as a ‘Medium Good’ in the Twelfth Century” in the Journal of Law, Culture, and Humanities (forthcoming fall 2005).
“The Birth of Official Criminal Prosecutions in the Common Law,” in Rechtssysteme in Vergleich: Die Staatsanwaltschaft (2005).
“Foremost Among the Prerogatives of Sovereignty: The Power to Punish and the Death of Comity in American Criminal Law,” in 30 The Journal of Law Politics and Society 33-50 (2004).
“The Problem of Pain in Punishment: A Historical Perspective,” in Pain, Death, and the Law, pp. 15-41, ed. Austin Sarat, University of Michigan Press (2001).
“Criminal Procedure in Medieval European Law: A Comparison Between English and Roman-Canonical Developments after the IV Lateran Council” 85 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte - Kanonistische Abteilung 174-202 (1999).
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Melissa Sartore
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Medieval Law and Society
Foundations of the Western Legal Tradition
At present:
The History of Punishment
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