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BACKGROUND
Professor Mary Sarah Bilder teaches in the areas of property and American legal and constitutional history at Boston College Law School. She received her B.A. and the Dean’s Prize from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, her J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School, and her A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of American Civilization. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Francis Murnaghan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. She writes primarily in the area of constitutionalism and colonial American legal culture. She was the Lucy G. Moses Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2001 and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in the spring of 2008. She was given the Emil Slizewski Faculty Teaching Award in 2007 and was named Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar in 2009. She is the author of The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire (Harvard University Press, 2004), awarded the Littleton-Griswold Award from the American Historical Association. She recently co-edited Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Her articles appear in The Many Legalities of Early America, The Cambridge History of Law in America, and law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, and the Hastings Law Journal. She has received the Boston College Annual Prize for Scholarship, a Boston College Distinguished Research Award, a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, and is a Boston College Law School Fund Scholar. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of Law and History Review, and The Journal of Legal Education, the Board of The New England Quarterly, and is a member of the American Law Institute, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. She has two stepdaughters, Dana and Lizzie, and two daughters, Eleanor and Lucy. EDUCATION B.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison; J.D., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University. PRESENTATIONS Boston College Law School Summer Workshop, "Madison's Hand" (June 2009) “James Madison, Law Student,” Harvard Law School Faculty Workshop (March 2008). WORKS IN PROGRESS "James Madison, Law Student and Demi-Lawyer." Law and History Review (forthcoming 2010) Madison's Hand ( under contract with Harvard University Press) Book Review, American Journal of Legal History (review of Brendan McConville, The King's Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776. Chapel Hill, N.C., University of North Carolina Press, 2006) (forthcoming 2009) Libraries, Law, and Political Philosophy, Comments for Adams and Jefferson ACTIVITIES Serves on the boards of Law and History Review, the Journal of Legal Education, and the New England Quarterly. Teaching inaugural Eagle Scholarship Fellowship Program (2009. Co-convenor of the Boston College Legal History Roundtable. OTHER Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar (2009) Emil Slizewski Faculty Teaching Award (2007). Recipient of the inaugural 2006 BC Law Annual Prize for Scholarly Excellence. Fall '09: American Legal History PUBLICATIONS Editor, with Maeva Marcus, R. Kent Newmyer. Blackstone in America: Selected Essays of Kathryn Preyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. "The Colonial Period: The Sources of Colonial Law." In The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, volume 6, Stanley N. Katz, editor in chief, 32-24. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. "Colonial Constitutionalism and Constitutional Law." In Transformations in American Legal History: Essays in Honor of Professor Morton J. Horwitz, editors, Daniel W. Hamilton, Alfred L. Brophy, 28-57. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law School, distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009. "English Settlement and Local Governance." In The Cambridge History of Law in America, vol.1: Early America, 1580-1815, edited by Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, 63-103. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. "Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review." Journal of Policy History, 20: no.1 (2008): 6-25. "Why We Have Judicial Review." Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 116 (2007): 215. "The Origins of Judicial Review." BC Law Magazine 15: no.1 (Winter 2006): 30, 53-54. "The Corporate Origins of Judicial Review." Yale Law Journal 116, no.3 (December 2006): 502-566. The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. "Salamanders and Sons of God: The Culture of Appeal in Early New England." In The Many Legalities of Early America, edited by Christopher L. Tomlins and Bruce H. Mann, 47-77. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. "The Lost Lawyers: Early American Legal Literates and Transatlantic Legal Culture." Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 11(Winter 1999): 47-117. "The Origin of the Appeal in America." Hastings Law Journal 48 (July 1997): 913-968. "The Struggle Over Immigration: Indentured Servants, Slaves, and Articles of Commerce." Missouri Law Review 61 (Fall 1996): 743-824. "The Shrinking Back: The Law of Biography." Stanford Law Review 43 (January 1991): 299-360. | |
