讲座题目: “从英美法律史看普通法系的特征 ”

（The Character of the Common Law: Lessons from English and American Legal History）

讲座嘉宾:  波士顿大学David J. Seipp教授

讲座时间: 6月6日下午4:30pm-5:30pm

讲座地点: C303

David J. Seipp

David J. Seipp is Professor of Law and Law Alumni Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where he teaches English Legal History, American Legal History, and Trusts, Wills and Estate Planning.  He has an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1977, a B.A. in the Honour School of Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in 1979, an LL.B. in Legal History with first class honours from the University of Cambridge in 1980, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1982.  He clerked for Judge Henry J. Friendly on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was an associate at the law firm of Foley Hoag and Eliot in Boston.  He joined the Boston University faculty in 1986.

Professor Seipp has published numerous articles and book chapters about concepts of property, crime, and tort in the early common law, the relation between English common law and canon and civil law, the history of legal education, and the thought of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  A full list of his publications can be found at www.bu.edu/law/faculty/profiles.  His project over the last ten years has been to compile an internet database that indexes and translates over 22,000 cases reported in England between 1268 and 1535, the Year Books.  This database is freely and publicly accessible at www.bu.edu/law/seipp, and is consulted by scholars, lawyers, and students between 5,000 and 20,000 times a month.

He is a member of the Selden Society, the American Society for Legal History, and the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a director of the Ames Foundation and of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition.