Lawrence M. Friedman
Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Manuel A. Gómez, editors. Law in Many Societies: A Reader, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011
Lawrence M. Friedman, Erewhon: The Coming Global Legal Order, Law in Many Societies: A Reader, Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Manuel A. Gómez, editors, Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2011.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert W. Gordon, Sophie Pirie, and Edwin Whatley, Law, Lawyers, and Legal Practice in Silicon Valley: a Preliminary Report in Law in Many Societies: A Reader, Lawrence M. Friedman, Rogelio Pérez-Perdomo, Manuel A. Gómez, editors, Stanford: Stanford Law Books, 2011.
Lawrence Mayer, Dead in the Park, Bloomington: iUniverse, 2011.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press by Gordon Morris Bakken and Brenda Farrington (Book Review), 5 California Legal History 423 (2010)
Lawrence M. Friedman, Notes Toward a Sociology of Human Rights, in Transformations in Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods: Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz, volume 2, Daniel W. Hamilton, Alfred L. Brophy, editors, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence Friedman, "Sister Wives": Will Reality Show Stars Face Prosecution for Polygamy in Utah?, FindLaw, October 4, 2010.
Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman, "The Kids Are Alright": Family Life and Family Law on the Big Screen, FindLaw Legal News and Commentary, September 14, 2010.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Our Common-Law Constitution, 21 The American Prospect 34 (2010)
Lawrence M. Friedman, Book Review (Wiktor Osiatynski, Human Rights and Their Limits), 20 Law and Politics Book Review 133 (April 2010).
Lawrence M. Friedman, Access to Justice: Some Historical Comments, Fordham Urban Law Journal, 37 Fordham Urban Law Journal 3 (2010)
Lawrence M. Friedman, Prologo, in La Futura Generacion de Abogados Mexicanos, Luis Fernando Perez-Hurtado, Mexico City: UNAM, 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Legal Theory and the Social Study of Law, in Reconsideration of the Relations Between Practice Theory and Science in Law, Tokyo: Nippon-Hyoron-sha, 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Legal Culture and Family Law, in Japanese Family Law in Comparative Perspective, Harry N. Scheiber and Laurent Mayali, eds., Berkeley: Robbins Collection Publications, 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, The Roots of Justice, in Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices, Simon Halliday and Patrick Schmidt, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, James Willard Hurst, in Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law, Roger K. Newman, ed., New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, How Supreme a Court? (Book review: Lucas A. Powe Jr., The Supreme Court and the American Elite), American Prospect, April 14, 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law, Stanford, CA: Stanford Law Books, April 2009.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Some Thoughts About Citizen Lawyers, 50 William & Mary Law Review 1153 (March 2009).
Stanley N. Katz and Barbara A. Black, Lawrence M. Friedman, Michael Gagarin, David Ibbetson, Baber Johansen, Laura Kalman, Andrew Lewis, Klaus Luig, Geoffrey D. MacCormack, Werner Menski (area editors), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2009.