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D. Hay, Criminal Cases on the Crown Side of King's Bench (Staffordshire Record Society, 2010), 580pp.D. Hay and N. Rogers, Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (Oxford University Press, 1997) 253pp.

Books

“Hanging and the English Judges: The Judicial Politics of Retention and Abolition,” in David Garland, Randall McGowen, and Paul Merantz, eds., America's Death Penalty: Between Past and Present (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 129-165."Legislation, Magistrates, and Judges: High Law and Low Law in England and the Empire," in Dvaid Lemmings, ed., The British and Their Laws in the Eighteenth Century (London: boydell and Brewer, 2005), 59-79."The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century," in Philip Girard, Jim Phillips and Barry Cahill, eds., The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle (Toronto: Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History and University of Toronto Press, 2004) 13-29.Biographies of Lloyd Kenyon CJKB; William Ashhurst JKB; James Eyre CJCP; Simon LeBlanc JKB; (c.9,000 words in all) for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (60 volumes, Oxford University Press, 2004)."Dread of the Crown Office: the English Magistracy and King's Bench, 1740-1800", in Norma Landau, ed., Law, Crime and English Society 1660-1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2002), 19-45."Law and Society in comparative Perspective" in Crime and Punishent in Latin America: Law and Society Since Late Colonial Times, ed. Ricardo D. Salvatore, Carlose Aguirre, and Gilbert M. Joseph (Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 2001), 415-30."Master and Servant in England: Using the Law in the 18th and 19th Centuries", in Private Law and Social Inequality, ed. Willibald Steinmetz (Oxford University Press, 2000), 227-64."Moral Economy, Political Economy, and Law" in Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds, Conflict and Authority, ed. Adrian Randall and Andrew Charlesworth (Manchester University Press, 1999), 93-122.

Book Chapters

“Writing about the death penalty”, in J. Beattie, J. Phillips, J. Muir, and D.Hay, “Symposium on [Douglas Hay’s] ‘Property, Authority and the Criminal Law’” , Legal History vol. 10 nos.1-2 (2006), 13-52."Women, Men, and Empires of Law" [review essay], Journal of British Studies, vol.44 no.1 (January 2005), 204-212."Tradition, Judges, and Civil Liberties in Canada," Osgoode Hall Law Journal, vol. 41 nos.2-3 (2003), 319-22."The Last Years of Staffordshire Jacobitism [The Earl Lecture, Keele University]", Staffordshire Studies, vol. 14 (2002), 53-88."The State and the Market: Lord Kenyon and Mr. Waddington", in Past & Present, no.162 (February 1999), 101-162.

Journal Articles

"Scottish masters and servants, and English law", paper to Graduate Seminar in British History, the Open University, 17 Jan 2006 and Lincoln College, Oxford University, 18 Jan, 2006."Masters, magistrates, commanders and coercion in Britain and the Empire", Northeast Conference on British Studies conference, Montreal, 1 October 2004."Origins: Westminster Hall in the eighteenth century", at 'Courts, Communities and Conflict, Conference', Dalhousie Law School, 3-4 October 2003."Judges and magistrates: high law and low law in England and the Empire", Conference on 'Law and the Enlightenment: The British Imperial State at Law, 1689-1832', Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, 26-28 September 2001."Temps, culture, droit: l'historien et les temporalites des juristes," Quatre essais sur tmps et culture: Actes du seminaire international temps et culture (Centre Interuniversitaire d'etudes quebecoises, 2000), 19-24."Temps, culture, droit: l'historien et les temporalites des juristes," Seminaire International 'Temps et culture', Centre inter-universitaire d'Etudes Quebecoises, Universite Laval, Quebec 19 March 1999."Distinct societies and the demand for distinctive law", Annual Plenary Lecture, Conference of the American Society for Legal History, Toronto, 22 October 1999.

Conference Papers

D. Hay and P. Cravens, eds., Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of NOrth Carolina Press, 2004), 592 pp.

Books Edited

"The law and literature of Irish master and Servant", Hugh Fitzpatrick Lecture in Legal Bibliography, Dublin, Nov 2006." 'Property, authority and the criminal law' after 30 years", presented at roundtable at University of Toronto Legal History Seminar, (February 8, 2006)."Legal and criminal lives in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario, London, 31 May 2005."Gothic mystery: King's Bench and other high courts in the 18th and 19th centuries", Gren College Public Lecture, University of British Columbia, 15 April 2003."Master and servant law in England and the Empire", Conference on 'Law, History, Colonialism', La Trobe University (Melbourne Campus), 21 September 2001.

Invited Lectures

"The Law of master and servant in eithteenth-century Scotland", Toronto Legal History Seminar, 10 March 2005, and Scottish studies Seminar, Department of History, University of Guelph, 14 March 2005."Defining low law: magistrates and empire", University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, 14 April 2003 and University of Victoria Faculty of Law, 17 April 2003."Master and servant in the British Empire, 1562-1939: law as artefact, source, and power", Legal History Workshop, Law School, Columbia University, New York, 10 April 2002."Dread of the crown office: King's Bench and JP's in the eighteenth Century" paper to the Graduate Seminar in British History, University of Kansas, 1 March 1999.

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