Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life

2020

“Lines in Lava. Of Metes and Bounds in Old Iceland”

  • Legal History
Saga-Book
2020

Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices

2017

“Epilogue: Do I disgust you? (or, rather, you me?) – Mes frères, mes sœurs, mes semblables?”

Le dégoût: Histoire, langage, esthétique et politique d’une émotion plurielle
2016

“Finding, Sharing and Risk of Loss: Of Whales, Bees and Other Valuable Finds in Iceland, Denmark and Norway”

  • Administrative Law
Comparative Legal History
2015

‘Why is your axe bloody?’: A Reading of Njáls Saga

  • Legal History
2014

“The Question of Courage”

Soka Gakkai International Quarterly
2012

“Conscience, Interest, Side-Switching, and Laxdaela Saga”

  • International and Comparative Law
The Creation of Medieval Northern Europe: Christianisation, Social Transformations, and Historiography; Essays in Honour of Sverre Bagge
2012

“The Messenger”

Frieden stiften: Vermittlung und Konfliktlösung vom Mittelalter bis heute
2011

Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which He Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service

2011

“Losing It”

Michigan Quarterly Review
2011

“Threat”

  • Legal History
Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White
2010

“Hatred”

  • Law and Social Sciences
The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences
2009

Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business

  • Legal History
2008

“Oko za oko: obraèunavanje s talionom”

Pamfil
2005

“Yale Kamisar: Up Close and Personal”

  • Legal Writing and Research
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
2004

Review of Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative

  • Legal History
Medieval Review
2003

“Weak Legs: Misbehavior before the Enemy”

  • Legal History
Demokratie, Recht und soziale Kontrolle im klassischen Athen
2002

Review of Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions

  • Law and Social Sciences
London Review of Books
2000

“Near Misses”

Michigan Quarterly Review
1999

“In Defense of Revenge”

  • Legal History
Medieval Crime and Social Control
1999

“Fear, Weak Legs, and Running Away: A Soldier’s Story”

The Passions of Law
1999

“Sheep, Joking, Cloning and the Uncanny”

  • Law and Technology
Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning
1998

“ ‘I Can Take a Hint’: Social Ineptitude, Embarrassment, and the King of Comedy”

Michigan Quarterly Review
1994

“Of Outlaws, Christians, Horsemeat, and Writing: Uniform Laws and Saga Iceland”

  • Legal History
Michigan Law Review
1991

Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland: Ljósvetninga Saga and Valla-Ljóts Saga

  • International and Comparative Law
  • Legal History
1989

“Central Feud in Njáls Saga”

Sagas of the Icelanders
1989

“Dreams, Prophecy and Sorcery: Blaming the Secret Offender in Medieval Iceland”

  • International and Comparative Law
  • Legal History
Scandinavian Studies
1986

Review of Njáls saga: Rechtsproblematik im Dienste soziokultureller Deutung by Carola L. Gottzmann

Scandinavian Studies
1985

“A Relic of Divine Dispensation”

The Explicator
1984

“Dorothy Thompson and the Court Packing Plan: Of Muse and Men”

  • Legal History
Houston Law Review
1982