Publications

Forthcoming (2022) in the German History Journal (Oxford University Press): “A Posture of Protest: Civil Litigation and Constitutional Culture in the Reformation-Era Holy Roman Empire”

“The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany.” Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places. Marianne Constable, Leti Volpp, and Bryan Wagner (eds). Fordham University Press, 2019, pp. 201-22.

Book review in Law and History Review 34:2 (May 2016) of The Emperor’s Old Clothes: Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire, by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, translated from German by Thomas Dunlap (Berghahn Books, 2015).

Book review in Law, Culture, and Humanities 11:1 (2015) of The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War, by Caleb Smith (Harvard University Press, 2013).

In progress: an article on a body of Reformation-era litigation that is entirely neglected in the historiography, in which the “protesting estates” did not deploy their 1530 litigation strategy