James Whitman
Encyclopedia
James Q. Whitman is an American lawyer, and Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, at Yale University
.
He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and a J.D., from Columbia University
with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago
with a Ph.D.
He was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
.
He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. and a J.D., from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
with an M.A., and from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
with a Ph.D.
He was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Works
- "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 9780691055602