Lawrence M. Friedman
Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Lawrence M. Friedman, Benchmarks: Judges on Trial, Judicial Selection and Election, 58 DePaul Law Review 451 (Winter 2009).
Lawrence M. Friedman, The Legal System, in Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation, Peter H. Schuck and James Q. Wilson, eds., New York: PublicAffairs, April 2008.
Lawrence M. Friedman, The Litigation Revolution, in The Cambridge History of Law in America, Vol. III, Michael Grossberg and Christopher Tomlins, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Mayer, Lawrence M., The Corpse in the Road, New York: iUniverse, 2008.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, November 2007.
Stewart Macauly, Lawrence M. Friedman and Elizabeth Mertz, Law in Action: A Socio-Legal Reader, New York: Foundation Press, 2007.
Lawrence M. Friedman, The Inheritance Process in San Bernardino County, California, 1964: A Research Note, 43 Houston Law Review 1445 (2007).
Lawrence M. Friedman, Preface, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society, Vol. I, David S. Clark, ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2007.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Assessing the Rehnquist Court, 41 Comparative Law Review (2007). (translated into Japanese by Shigeo Miyagawa)
Lawrence M. Friedman, Looking Backward: The Central District of California, 36 Southwestern University Law Review 245 (2007).
Lawrence M. Friedman, Human Rights and Modern Legal Culture in Human Rights in the Pacific Rim: Imagining a New Critical Discourse, Edmund Ryden SJ and Barbara K. Bundy, eds., Taiwan: Fu Jen Catholic University Press, 2006.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Judging the Judges: Some Remarks on the Way Judges Think and the Way Judges Act in Norms and the Law, John N. Drobak, ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Law, Lawyers, and Popular Culture, in Popular Culture and Law, Richard K. Sherwin, ed., Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Private Lives: Families, Individuals, and the Law, Stanford Lawyer, Spring 2005, p. 37.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Private Lives : Families, Individuals, and the Law, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Lawrence M. Friedman, Les Etats-Unis sont-ils la 'Patrie' des Contentieux?, 10 Constructif 37-39 (2005).
Lawrence M. Friedman, Coming of Age: Law and Society Enters an Exclusive Club, 1 Annual Review of Law And Social Science 1 (2005).
Lawrence M. Friedman. With John Henry Merryman, Memorial Resolution: Mauro Cappelletti (1927-2004) in In Honorem Mauro Cappelletti (1927-2004): Tribute To An International Procedural Lawyer, Marcel Storme and Federico Carpi, eds., Frederick, MD: Aspen, 2005.
Lawrence M. Friedman, The Eye that Never Sleeps: Privacy and Law in the Internet Era (Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship of Lawrence M. Friedman), 40 Tulsa Law Review 561 (2005).
Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3rd ed., New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.