John
H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law 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 seventy 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.
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).
Ethics, Legal History, Comparative Law, Contracts
J.D. 1979, Yale; M.A. (by Grace), Ph.D., Cambridge, 1976, 2001; B.A., M.A. 1973, Haverford College
New York 1980
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.
ALI; Selden Society; Editor, Law & History Review, 1988-89; Editor, Roman Legal Tradition, 2002-
