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Susanna L. Blumenthal

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Susanna L. Blumenthal
AwardsMerle Curti Award
Academic background
Alma materHarvard-Radcliffe College,
Yale University
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
InstitutionsUniversity of Minnesota

Susanna L. Blumenthal is the William Prosser Professor of Law[1] and Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She won the Merle Curti Award for her book Law and the Modern Mind.

Life

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She graduated from Radcliffe College, and from Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. and JD.[2]

Blumenthal's book Law and the Modern Mind won the Merle Curti Award and the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences' Cheiron Book Prize.[3]

Works

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  • Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN 9780674048935, OCLC 957012547[4][5][6]
  • How Not to Train Your Dragon, or Living Dangerously in the Law Stanford Law Review, May 2018
  • "The Deviance of the Will: Policing the Bounds of Testamentary Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America", Harvard Law Review, v119 n4 (20060201): 959-1034
  • "A Mania for Accumulation : The Plea of Moral Insanity in Gilded Age Will Contests" Making Legal History : Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson; NYU Press, ISBN 9780814708286

References

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  1. ^ "Blumenthal, Susanna | University of Minnesota Law School". law.umn.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-16.
  2. ^ "Blumenthal, Susanna". University of Minnesota Law School. 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  3. ^ "University of Minnesota law professors lauded – Minnesota Lawyer". May 29, 2017. Retrieved 2019-06-12.
  4. ^ "Book Review: Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture (by Susanna L. Blumenthal)". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 2019-06-11.
  5. ^ Blumenthal, Susanna (1998-12-01). "Law and the Creative Mind". Chicago-Kent Law Review. 74 (1): 151. ISSN 0009-3599.
  6. ^ Vaughn, Lea B. (2017-09-19). "Book Review - (Of Susanna L. Blumenthal, Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture (2016))". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3039550. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)