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Richard M. Fraher

Publications

Richard M. Fraher

Professor of Law, 1986-1991


Books

SUMMA INDUENT SANCTI: A CRITICAL EDITION OF A TWELFTH-CENTURY CANONICAL TREATISE. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1978.

IV LATERAN'S REVOLUTION IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: THE BIRTH OF INQUISITIO, THE END OF ORDEALS, AND INNOCENT III'S VISION OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITICS. Roma: Pontificia Universita Salesiana, 1988.

Articles

Alanus Anglicus and the Summa "Induent Sancti" 6 BULLETIN OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW 47 (1976).

The Becket Dispute and Two Decretist Traditions: The Bolognese Masters Revisited and Some New Anglo-Norman Texts, 4 JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY 347 (1978).

Tancred's "Summula de Criminibus": A New Text and a Key to the Ordo Iudiciarius, 9 BULLETIN OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW 23 (1979).

The Theoretical Justification for the New Criminal Law of the High Middle Ages: "Rei Publicae Interest, Ne Crimina Remaneant Impunita", 1984 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 577. [HeinOnline]

Adjudicative Facts, Non-Evidence Facts, and Permissible Jury Background Information, 62 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 333 (1987). [HeinOnline]

Conviction According to Conscience: The Medieval Jurists' Debate Concerning Judicial Discretion and the Law of Proof, 7 LAW AND HISTORY REVIEW 23 (1989). [HeinOnline]

Book Chapters

Learning a New Art: Suggestions for Beginning Teachers, in THE ART AND CRAFT OF TEACHING. Cambridge, MA: Distributed for the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University by Harvard Univ. Press, 1982. Reprinted in 1984.

Ut Nullus Describatur Reus Prius Quam Convincature: Presumption of Innocence in Medieval Canon Law? in PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW (S. Kuttner and E. Pennington (Eds.). (Monumenta Iuris Canonici Series C: Subsidia, vol. 7), Rom 1985.

Preventing Crime in the High Middle Ages: The Medieval Lawyers' Search for Deterrence, in POPES, TEACHERS, AND CANON LAW IN THE MIDDLE AGES (J. R. Sweeney and S. Chodorow, Eds.) Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Thomas de Piperata and the "Tractatus de Fama": Arbitium, Indicia, and a New Approach to Proof in Criminal Procedure, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MEDIEVAL CANON LAW. (Monumenta Iuris Canonici Series C: Subsidia, vol. 9), Citta del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 1992.

Book Reviews

Book Review. Russell, F., The Just War in the Middle Ages, 23 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 268 (1979). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. Bradley, G., Church-State Relationships in America, 32 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE 269 (1987). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. Criminal Defense as Narrative: Storytelling and Royal Pardons in Renaissance France Davis, N., Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France, 55 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 1010 (1988). [HeinOnline]

Book Review. Mostert, M., The Political Theology of Abbo of Fleury: A Study of the Ideas about Society and Law of the Tenth-Century Monastic Reform Movement, 94 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 417 (1989).

Book Review. Radding, C., The Origins of Medieval Jurisprudence: Pavia and Bologna, 850-1150, 94 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 732 (1989).

Book Review. Yeazell, S., From Medieval Group Litigation to the Modern Class Action, 95 AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 1495 (1990).