Christine Desan

Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Legal and Political Thought

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Civil Procedure
• Constitutional History
• Legal History
• Legal Theory

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Constitutional Law History
• Legal History

Education

• Princeton University A.B. 1981, Religion
• Yale Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy J.D./M.A.L.D. 1987

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1992
• Professor of Law, 1998

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Desan, Christine. "Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism" in Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods: Essays in Honor of Morton J. Horwitz, Volume II (Daniel W. Hamilton & Alfred L. Brophy eds., Harvard University Press, 2010).
  
• Desan, Christine. "The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History," 30 Law and Social Inquiry 1 (2005).
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• Desan, Christine. "Contesting the Character of the Political Economy: Rights and Remedies in the Early Republic" in The House and the Senate in the 1790s: Petitioning, Lobbying, and Institutional Development (Kenneth R. Bowling & Donald R. Kennon eds., Ohio University Press, 2002).
  
• Desan, Christine. "The Constitutional Commitment to Legislative Adjudication in the Early American Tradition," 111 Harvard Law Review 1383 (1998).
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Bibliography

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