讲座题目: "The Convergence of Civil and Criminal Procedure in Anglo-American and European-Derived Legal Systems"

讲座嘉宾: John Langbein, 耶鲁大学法学院Sterling法律和法律历史学教授

讲座时间: 5月17日下午4:30pm-6:00pm

讲座地点: C303

John H. Langbein （ 耶鲁大学网站上的简介)

Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History
John Langbein, Sterling Professor of Law and Legal History, is an eminent legal historian and a leading American authority on trust, probate, pension, and investment law. He teaches and writes in the fields of Anglo-American and European legal history, modern comparative law, trust and estate law, and pension and employee benefit law. Professor Langbein has long been active in law reform work, serving under gubernatorial appointment as a Uniform Law Commissioner since 1984. He was the reporter and principal drafter for the Uniform Prudent Investor Act (1994), which governs fiduciary investing in most American states, and he is Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers. Professor Langbein has written extensively about the history of criminal procedure, and about the contrasts between modern American and Continental civil and criminal procedure. His book, The Origins of Adversary Criminal Trial (2003), received  the Coif Biennial Book Award (2006) as the outstanding American book on law. In 2000 the American Society for Legal History awarded him the Sutherland Prize for his "pioneering work" in legal history. In 2009 he published History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions  (with R. Lerner & B. Smith), a textbook on the history of the legal system. He also coauthors the principal course book on pension law used in American law schools,Pension & Employee Benefit Law (with D. Pratt & S. Stabile, 5th ed. 2010).

Education
Ph.D., Cambridge, 1971
LL.B., Cambridge, 1969
LL.B., Harvard, 1968
A.B., Columbia, 1964