JOEL B. SAMAHA

March 15, 2005

EDUCATION

J.D. Northwestern University, 1961

M.A.T. Northwestern University, 1963

University of Cambridge, England, 1969-1970

PhD. Northwestern University, 1972

Major Fields

History of American Criminal Justice

Criminal Law and Procedure

Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights

EMPLOYMENT

Practicing Attorney, 1961-1962

High School teacher, Chicago Public Schools, 1962-1967

High School Guidance Counselor, Chicago Public Schools, 1966-1967

Visiting Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Summers 1965-1967

Lecturer, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970-1971

Visiting Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1971-1972

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, 1972-1973

Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, 1973-1978

Professor, University of Minnesota, 1978-

Chair, Department of Criminal Justice Studies, 1974-1977

Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, 1981-

AWARDS

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for Teachers, taught with Paul Murphy, 1973

University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts, Distinguished Teacher, 1974

PUBLICATIONS

1. Law and Order In Historical Perspective(New York: Academic Press, 1974)

2. "Sedition in Elizabethan Essex," Journal of Social History, Summer, 1975

3. "Law and the Liberal Arts," Journal of Legal Education (March, 1976)

4. "A Case of Murder: Criminal Justice in Early Minnesota," Minnesota Law Review, 60 (1979)

5. Law and Society, multiĞmedia package (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1979)

6. "Hanging for Felony: The Rule of Law in Elizabethan Essex," Historical Journal21 (1979)

7. "The Anglo-Saxon Origins of Discretionary Justice," Social Psychology and Discretionary Law, (New York: Van Nostrand, 1980)

8. "The Recognizance in Elizabethan Law Enforcement," The American Journal of Legal History, 25 (1981)

9. "John Winthrop and the Criminal Law," William Mitchell Law Review, 15 (1989)

10. The New Complete Irish Wolfhound (1991)

11. Criminal Law, 8th edition (2004)

12. Criminal Justice, 7th edition (2005)

13. Criminal Procedure, 6th edition (2004)

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