Charles Donahue

Paul A. Freund Professor of Law

Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Law, 1978
• Professor of Law, 1980
• Paul A. Freund Professor of Law, 1995

Education

• Harvard College A.B. 1962, Classics and English
• Yale Law School LL.B. 1965

Research Interests

• Legal History
• Property Law

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Ancient (including Roman), English, and Continental Legal History prior to 1700

Other Information

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

Representative Publications

• Donahue, Charles. Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middle Ages: Arguments about Marriage in Five Courts (2007).
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• Donahue, Charles. "Comparative Law Before the Code Napoléon" in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 3 (Mathias Reimann & Reinhard Zimmermann eds., Oxford University Press, 2006).
  
• Donahue, Charles. "Johannes Faventinus on Marriage (With an Appendix Revisitng the Question of the Dating of Alexander III's Marriage Decretals)" in Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington 179 (Wolfgang P. Müller & Mary E. Sommar eds., Catholic University of America Press, 2006).
  
• Donahue, Charles. "Equity in the Courts of Merchants," 1 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 72 (2004).
  
• Donahue, Charles. "Ius in the Subjective Sense in Roman Law: Reflections on Villey and Tierney" in A Ennio Cortese 506 (D. Maffei et al ed., Il Cigno Edizioni, 2001).
  
• Donahue, Charles. "Malchus's Ear: Reflections on Classical Canon Law as a Religious Legal System" in Lex et Romanitas: Essays for Alan Watson 91 (The Robbins Collection, 2000).
  
• Basile, Mary Beth, Jane Fair Bestor, Daniel R. Coquillette & Charles Donahue. Lex Mercatoria And Legal Pluralism: A Late Thirteenth-Century Treatise and its Afterlife (The Ames Foundation of Harvard Law School first ed. 1998).
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• Donahue, Charles, S.E. Thorne, M.E. Hager & M.M. Thorne. Year Books of Richard II: 6 Richard II, 1382-1383, Ames Foundation, Year Books Series (The Ames Foundation 1996).
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• Donahue, Charles, T. Kauper & P. Martin. Cases and Materials on Property: An Introduction to the Concept and the Institution (St. Paul: West Publishing 3rd ed. 1993).
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• Donahue, Charles. "Property Law" in Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia 180 (1992).
  

Bibliography

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