Professor John Phillip Reid, of New York University Law School, and author of a recent chronicle of judicial and legal history in New Hampshire will be speaking on “Legislating the Courts in New Hampshire, 1790-1920, at the University of New Hampshire’s Memorial Union Building on Thurs., March 9 from 12:40 to 2:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Reid, who previously penned a biography of Chief Justice Charles Doe, has recently published Controlling the Law, which looks at developments in the courts and legislature in New Hampshire that led to the professionalization of the judiciary and its impact on the role of juries. (Controlling the Law: Legal Politics in Early National New Hampshire. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.)

Reid is currently completing another book on the early history of New Hampshire courts, tentatively entitled Legislating the Courts.  He will speak on that work-in-progress.

For more information, contact Professor Lucy Salyer at Lucy.Salyer@unh.edu.

Professor Reid is an eminent legal historian with deep roots in New Hampshire.  Before receiving his law degree from New York University Law School, Reid completed his master’s degree in history at UNH in 1957 and wrote a thesis which would eventually become his first book, Chief Justice: The Judicial World of Charles Doe.  That biography of one of New Hampshire’s most influential Supreme Court judges was—and continues to be—a highly respected judicial biography. He is the author of many other books on a variety of topics in American legal history, from law on the overland trail and in the fur trade, to studies on constitutional liberty and the rule of law in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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