University of St. Thomas : School of Law : Faculty bio for Professor Charles Reid, Jr.

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Faculty bio for Professor Charles Reid, Jr.

Faculty bio for Professor Charles Reid, Jr.

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	Reid, Jr., Charles
	Professor cjreid@stthomas.edu Phone: (651) 962-4974 Toll Free: (800) 328-6819, Ext. 2-4974 MSL 400 1000 LaSalle Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403 Office Location: MSL 340
J.D., Catholic University of America J.C.L., Catholic University of America Ph.D., History of Medieval Law, Cornell University B.A., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Professor Reid's Website Professor Reid's CV Charles J. Reid, Jr. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he majored in Latin, Classics, and History, and also did substantial coursework in classical Greek and modern European languages. It was during his undergraduate days that he developed an interest in canon law, doing a year of directed research in Roman and canon law under the supervision of James Brundage. Reid then attended the Catholic University of America, where he earned J.D. and J.C.L. (license in canon law) degrees. During his time at Catholic University, he organized a series of symposia on the bishops' pastoral letter on nuclear arms. The proceedings of these symposia were published under Reid's editorship as "Peace in a Nuclear Age: The Bishops' Pastoral Letter in Perspective" (Catholic University of America Press, 1986). This book was called by the New York Times "among the most scholarly and unsettling of responses" to the pastoral letter (December 28, 1986). Reid then attended Cornell University, where he earned a Ph.D. in the history of medieval law under the supervision of Brian Tierney. His thesis at Cornell was on the Christian, medieval origins of the western concept of individual rights. Over the last ten years, he has published a number of articles on the history of western rights thought, and is currently completing work on a book manuscript addressing this question. In 1991, Reid was appointed research associate in law and history at the Emory University School of Law, where he has worked closely with Harold Berman on the history of western law. He collaborated with Professor Berman on articles on the Lutheran legal science of the sixteenth century, the English legal science of the seventeenth century, and the flawed premises of Max Weber's legal historiography. While at Emory, Reid has also pursued a research agenda involving scholarship on the history of western notions of individual rights; the history of liberty of conscience in America; and the natural-law foundations of the jurisprudence of Judge John Noonan. He has also published articles on various aspects of the history of the English common law. He has had the chance to apply legal history in a forensic setting, serving as an expert witness in litigation involving the religious significance of Christian burial. Additionally, Reid has taught a seminar on the contribution of medieval canon law to the shaping of western constitutionalism. Representative Scholarship BOOKS Lucifer's Children: A Story of Free Love, Religion, Politics, and Law in Nineteenth-Century America (under contract, University of Michigan Press, to be published, fall, 2010). Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law (Grand Rapids, MI: William Eerdmans, 2004). The Story of Law (authored forward, prepared annotations and bibliography for the second edition of this classic work of legal history by John M. Zane; publication, summer, 1998 by the Liberty Fund). Peace in a Nuclear Age: The Bishops' Pastoral Letter in Perspective (editor) (The Catholic University of America Press, 1986). ARTICLES "Marriage in Its Procreative Dimension: The Meaning of the Institution of Marriage Through the Ages," University of St. Thomas Law Journal (forthcoming) "How the Courts Came to Exercise Jurisdiction Over Marriage: A Study in Early American Legal Theory," University of St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy (forthcoming). "Three Arguments Against Same-Sex Marriage: Classical, Medieval, and Modern," to be included as a chapter in a forthcoming book from Catholic University of America Press, 2008, edited by R.E. Houser and entitled Temperance. "The Right to Life and Its Application to the Welfare of Children in the Canon Law and Magisterium of the Catholic Church: 1878 to the Present," Best Love of the Child (to be edited by Dr. Timothy Jackson of the Emory University Department of Theology). "Sexual Virtue, Sexual Vice and the Requirements of the Good Society: Lessons From Ancient Rome," in Lynn D. Wardle, ed., What's The Harm? Does Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Really Harm Individuals, Families or Society? (University Press of America, 2008), pp. 179-204. "Marriage: Its Relationship to Religion, Law, and the State," (forthcoming, Festschrift in Honor of Fr. John Lynch, C.S.P.) The Jurist 68 (2008), pp. 252-297 (substantially reprinted in Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, and Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts (2009), pp. 157-188. "Paulus Vladimiri, the Tractatus, Opinio Hostiensis, and the Rights of Infidels," in Sacri Canones Servandi Sunt, edited by Pavel Krafl, Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2008, pp. 418-423. "Incest and Christianity," vol. I, p. 318; "Procreation," Vol. II, p. 481, The Encyclopedia of Love in the World Religions, Yehudit Greenberg, ed. (2008). "Marriage in the Western Legal Tradition: A Product of Natural Law or a Creature of the State?" in The Family in the New Millenium, volume II, Marriage and Human Dignity, Scott Loveless and Thomas B. Holman, editors (Westport CT: Praeger, 2007), pp. 3-20. "Hugo Grotius: A Case of Dubious Paternity," The Green Bag 10 (2d series, 2006), pp. 109-123. "The Rights of Children in Medieval Canon Law," in The Vocation of the Child, Patrick Brennan, ed. (William B. Eerdmans, 2008), pp. 243-265. "Judicial Precedent in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Commentary on Chancellor Kent's Commentaries," Ave Maria Law Review 5 (2007) 47-111. "Edward Douglass White's Use of Roman and Canon Law: A Study in the Supreme Court's Use of Foreign Legal Citations," University of St. Thomas Law Journal 3 (2006) 281-310. "And the State Makes Three: Should the State Retain a role in Recognizing Marriage," Cardozo Law Review 27 (2006), pp. 1277-1307. "The Conjugal Debt," in Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, p. 164 (Routledge, 2006). Courses Taught Canon Law: History Jurisprudence Legal History Property Wills, Estates, and Trusts Mailing Address MSL 340 1000 LaSalle Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403-2015