Michael H. Hoeflich
Subjects: Art Law, Contracts, Legal History, Professional Responsibility
Phone: 785-864-9259
E-mail:hoeflich@ku.edu
Office: 300C Green Hall
Profile
Michael Hoeflich holds degrees from Haverford College, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1980-1988, was dean of the Syracuse University College of Law from 1988-1994, and was dean at the University of Kansas School of Law from 1994-2000. Hoeflich is the author or editor of seven books and more than 70 articles. He is also a columnist for the Lawrence Journal-World. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the American Antiquarian Society and the Kansas Correspondent of the Selden Society. He was awarded an honorary degree (LL.D) by Baker University in 2003.
Representative Publications
"Roman & Civil Law & the Development of Anglo-American Jurisprudence" (1997); "Cases & Materials on Federal Taxation of Deferred Compensation" (with C. Watson) (1989); "The Gladsome Light of Jurisprudence: Learning the Law in England and the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries" (1988); "Essays in Property Law and Legal Education in Honor of John Cribbet" (ed. with P. Hay) (1988); "Roman Law and Forensic Oratory in Antenellum America," 120 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fur Rechtsgeschichte 189 (2003); "Translation and the Reception of Foreign Law in Antebellum American," 50 American Journal of Comparative Law 753 (2003); "The Lawyer as Pragmatic Reader: The History of Legal Common-Placing," 55 Arkansas Law Review 87 (2002); "Lawyers, Fees & Anti-Lawyer Sentiment in Popular Art, 1800-1925," 4 The Green Bag 147 (2001).
Research Interests
Ethics, legal history, comparative law, contracts.
Education
J.D., Yale, 1979; M.A. (by Grace), Ph.D., Cambridge, 1976, 2001; B.A., M.A., Haverford College, 1973.
Admitted
New York 1980
Career History
Associate, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City 1979-80; Assistant Professor, Illinois 1981-84; Associate Professor 1984-86; Professor and University Scholar 1986-88; Dean & Professor of Law & History, Syracuse 1988-94; Professor of Law, Kansas since 1994; Dean, Kansas 1994-2000; John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law since 1997.
Member
American Law Institute; Selden Society; Editor, Law & History Review, 1988-89; Editor, Roman Legal Tradition, 2002-present.