Contributors' Notes

Frances E. Dolan is Assistant Professor of English at Miami Univer- sity, Ohio. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Medieval and Renaissance Drama, PMLA, and SEL. She is currently completing a book, DangerousFamiliars: PopularAccounts of Domestic Crime in Eng- land, 1550-1700, of which the present essay is a part. Barbara Taback Schneider is a 1990 graduate of Harvard Law School. She is currently an attorney in Portland, Maine, with the firm of Murray, Plumb & Murray. The paper on which her article was based received the Irving Oberman Memorial Award from the Law School for the best es- say by a graduating law student on a current legal topic. In 1990 that topic was legal history. Brian Leiter is a graduate student in philosophy at the in Ann Arbor, where he is writing a dissertation on Nietzche's critique of morality. A graduate of Princeton, he also holds a law degree from the University of Michigan and is a member of the Bar. John Martin Fischer received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University in 1982. He taught for seven years in the philosophy depart- ment at as an assistant and associate professor. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, River- side. He has written on various topics in moral philosophy and meta- physics, especially free will and moral responsibility. Recently, he has published a book jointly edited with Mark Ravizza entitled Ethics: Problems and Principles (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991). Mark Tushnet, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, has written on constitutional law and legal history. He is the author of a forthcoming biography of Justice Thurgood Marshall. Elizabeth Mertz is a Research Fellow at the American Bar Founda- tion. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Duke University (1982) and her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law (1988). She clerked for the Honorable Richard D. Cudahy, Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1988-89). She is co-editor, with Richard Parmentier, of Semiotic Mediation: Sociocultural and Psycho- logical Perspectives (1985). Her publications and research focus on the relation between language and social identity in legal and other arenas. Allen D. Boyer is a practicing attorney in and an advi- sor to the Hamiltonian Institute. He lives on Staten Island. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Vol. 4, Iss. 1 [1992], Art. 1

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