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“Legal Writing in Medieval Wales: Damweiniau I,” forthcoming from Oxford University Press in Wales and the Wider World: Lectures in Honour of Rees Davies.
Dark Speech: The Performance of Law in Early Ireland (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
*Winner, James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Conference for Irish Studies
"Learning to Plead in Medieval Welsh Law," in Studia Celtica, 38 (2004): pp. 107-24.
"Law and Memory in Early Ireland," The Oxford O’Donnell Lecture for 2003, The Journal of Celtic Studies, 4 (2004): pp. 43-69.
"Instructional Riddles in Welsh Law," in Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes: A Festschrift for Patrick K. Ford , ed. Leslie Jones and Joseph Falaky Nagy (Four Courts Press, 2004), pp. 336-43.
"Law and Literature in Ireland and Wales," in Literature and Society in the Celtic Lands, ed. Helen Fulton (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005).
"Satire and its Socio-Legal Role," in
Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, ed. John Koch (ABC CLIO, Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, 2006), pp. 1560-1566.
"Dyfnwal Moelmud," forthcoming in The New Dictionary of
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"Texts and Society," in After Rome: The Oxford History of
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"Irish Native Law," Reader's Guide to British History,
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"Divorce, Medieval Welsh Style," Speculum 77, October,
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"King, Queen, and Edling in the "Laws of Court," in T.M.
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"Clothes Talk from Medieval Wales," in Charles-Edwards and
Owen, The Welsh King and his Court, pp. 338-46.
The Making of England to 1399, C. Warren Hollister, Robert Stacey,
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The Road to Judgment: From Custom to Court in Medieval Ireland and
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"Law and Order in the Very Old West: England and Ireland in the
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"Beowulf and the Bureaucrats," Journal of British Studies
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"Ties that Bind: Immunities in Irish and Welsh Law," in Cambridge
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"The Archaic Core of Llyfr Iorwerth," in T.M. Charles-Edwards,
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"Berrad Airechta: An Old-Irish Tract on Suretyship," in Lawyers
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