William Ian Miller

Thomas G. Long Professor of Law
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1985-

Books

• Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which He Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
  MLaw Catalog
• Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2008.
  MLaw Catalog
• Eye for an Eye. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
  MLaw Catalog
• Faking It. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.
  MLaw Catalog
• The Mystery of Courage. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.
  MLaw Catalog
• Co-translator. The Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Including 49 Tales, by V. Hreinsson, editor. P. Acker et al., co-translators. Reykjavík, Iceland: Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, 1997.
  MLaw Catalog
• The Anatomy of Disgust. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1997.
  MLaw Catalog
• Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort and Violence. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press, 1993.
  MLaw Catalog
• Bloodtaking and Peacemaking. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990.
  MLaw Catalog
• Co-translator. Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland: Ljósvetninga Saga and Valla-Ljóts Saga. T. M. Anderson, co-translator. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press, 1989.
  MLaw Catalog

Book Chapters

• "The Messenger." In Frieden stiften: Vermittlung und Konfliktlösung vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by G. Althoff, 19-36. Darmstadt: WBG, 2011.
• "Threat." In Feud, Violence and Practice: Essays in Medieval Studies in Honor of Stephen D. White, edited by B.S.Tuten and T.L.Billado, 9-28. Farnham, England: Ashgate, 2010.
  UM Library Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "Hatred." In The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, edited by D.Sander and K.R.Scherer, 203-4. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.
  UM Library Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "Deceit in War and Trade." In The Philosophy of Deception, edited by C.Martin, 49-66. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009.
  UM Library Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "Home and Homelessness in the Middle of Nowhere." In Home and Homelessness in the Medieval and Renaissance World, edited by N. Howe, 125-42. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. Notre Dame Press, 2004.
  UM Library Catalog
• "Weak Legs: Misbehavior before the Enemy." In Demokratie, Recht und soziale Kontrolle im klassischen Athen, edited by D. Cohen and E. Müller-Luckner, 15-35. Schriften des Historischen Kollegs, 49. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2002.
  UM Library Catalog
• "In Defense of Revenge." In Medieval Crime and Social Control, edited by B. A. Hanawalt and D. Wallace, 70-89. Medieval Cultures, 16. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  UM Library Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "Gluttony." In Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the Seven "Deadly" Sins, edited by R. C. Solomon, 19-49. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999.
• "Fear, Weak Legs, and Running Away: A Soldier's Story." In The Passions of Law, edited by S. A. Bandes, 241-64. Critical America. New York: New York Univ. Press, 1999.
  MLaw Catalog
• "Sheep, Joking, Cloning and the Uncanny." In Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies about Human Cloning, edited by M. C. Nussbaum and C. R. Sunstein, 78-87. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
  MLaw Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "Clint Eastwood and Equity: Popular Culture's Theory of Revenge." In Law in the Domains of Culture, edited by A. Sarat and T. R. Kearns, 161-202. Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1998.
  MLaw Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "Hœnsa-Þóris Saga." In Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia, edited by P. Pulsiano and K. Wolf: 309-10. New York: Garland, 1993.
  UM Library Catalog
• "Sagas and Emotions." In From Sagas to Society, edited by G. Pálsson. Middlesex, U.K.: Hisarlik Press, 1992.
  UM Library Catalog
• "Central Feud in Njáls Saga." In Sagas of the Icelanders, edited by J. Tucker, 292-365. New York: Garland, 1989.
• "Diebstahl, England." In Lexikon des Mittelalters, 992-3. Munich: Artemis, 1985.
  UM Library Catalog

Journal Articles

• "Losing It." Mich. Q. Rev. 50, no. 2 (2011): 153-67. (Excerpt from author's book Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which He Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.)
  Full Text: ProQuest (UMich users) | ProQuest
• "Death, Danger, and ... Dieting?: What is Courage? Who has it? Have we Debased its Meaning Since Plato Sought to Define it?" In Character 4, no. 3 (2009): 4-11.
• "Is a Gift Forever?" Representations 100 (2007): 13-22.
  Full Text: ProQuest (UMich users) | ProQuest
• "Oko za oko: obračunavanje s talionom." L. Učakar, translator. Pamfil (2005): 6-13.
• "Yale Kamisar: Up Close and Personal." Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 2, no. 1 (2004): 65-7.
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN | Lexis | Westlaw
• "Pretension and Pomposity in Academe." Chron. Rev. 50, no. 3 (2003): B7-B9.
  Full Text: WWW
• "Of Optimal Views and Other Anxieties of Attending to the Beautiful and Sublime." J. Visual Culture 1, no. 1 (2002): 71-85.
  Full Text: SAGE (UMich users) | SAGE
• "Books." Law Quad. Notes 44, no. 3 (2001): 8-9. (Introduction to excerpt from his book The Mystery of Courage in "Books" section.)
• "Weak Legs: Misbehavior before the Enemy." Representations 70 (2000): 27-48.
  Full Text: JSTOR (UMich users) | JSTOR
• "Shapes of Courage." Harper's Mag. 301, no. 1805 (2000): 21-4. (Adapted from The Mystery of Courage. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000)
  Full Text: WWW
• "The Chagrin of the Near Miss." Harper's Mag. 298, no. 1789 (1999): 26-7. (Excerpt of "Near Misses." Mich. Q. Rev. 38, no. 1 (1999): 1-15)
  Full Text: WWW
• "Near Misses." Mich. Q. Rev. 38, no. 1 (1999): 1-15.
  Full Text: WWW
• "Focus on Faculty - William I. Miller." Law Quad. Notes 41, no. 3 (1998): 12-3.
• "Ann Arbor, December 1997." Am. Scholar 67, no. 2 (1998): 143-6.
  Full Text: ProQuest (UMich users) | ProQuest
• "Gluttony." Representations 60 (1997): 92-112.
  Full Text: JSTOR (UMich users) | JSTOR
• "Sanctuary, Redlight Districts, and Washington, D.C.: Some Observations on Neuman's Anomalous Zones (Symposium: Surveying Law and Borders)." Stan. L. Rev. 48, no. 5 (1996): 1235-46.
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN | Lexis | Westlaw
• "Upward Contempt." Pol. Theory 23, no. 3 (1995): 476-99.
  Full Text: JSTOR (UMich users) | JSTOR
• "Deep Inner Lives, Individualism and People of Honour." Hist. Pol. Thought 16, no. 2 (1995): 190-207.
  Full Text: IngentaConnect (UMich users) | IngentaConnect
• "'I Can Take a Hint': Social Ineptitude, Embarrassment, and the King of Comedy." Mich. Q. Rev. 33, no. 2 (1994): 322-44.
  Full Text: WWW
• "Of Outlaws, Christians, Horsemeat, and Writing: Uniform Laws and Saga Iceland." Mich. L. Rev. 89 (1991): 2081-95.
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN | Lexis | Westlaw
• "Some Aspects of Householding in the Medieval Icelandic Commonwealth." Continuity & Change 3 (1988): 321-55.
  MLaw Catalog
• "Ordeal in Iceland." Scandinavian Stud. 60 (1988): 189-218.
  Full Text: Chadwyck | JSTOR (UMich users) | JSTOR
• "Beating Up on Women and Old Men and Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry into Literary Sources." Mercer L. Rev. 39, no. 3 (1988): 753-66.
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN
• "Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid: Case Studies in the Negotiation and Classification of Exchange in Medieval Iceland." Speculum 61 (1986): 18-50.
  Full Text: JSTOR (UMich users) | JSTOR
• "Dreams, Prophecy and Sorcery: Blaming the Secret Offender in Medieval Iceland." Scandinavian Stud. 58 (1986): 101-23.
  UM Library Catalog
  Full Text: WWW
• "A Relic of Divine Dispensation." Explicator 42, no. 4 (1984): 2-4. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
• "Avoiding Legal Judgement: The Submission of Disputes to Arbitration in Medieval Iceland." Am. J. Legal Hist. 28 (1984): 95-134. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN
• "Justifying Skarpheðinn: Of Pretext and Politics in the Icelandic Bloodfeud." Scandinavian Stud. 55, no. 4 (1983): 316-44. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
  UM Library Catalog
• "Choosing the Avenger: Some Aspects of the Bloodfeud in Medieval Iceland and England." Law & Hist. Rev. 1 (1983): 159-204. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN
• "Dorothy Thompson and the Court Packing Plan: Of Muse and Men." Hous. L. Rev. 19 (1981-1982): 695-711. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN
• "The Middle English Ballad 'Robyn and Gandeleyn' (line 57)." Notes & Queries 223 (1978): 300-1. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
  Full Text: WWW

Reviews

• Review of Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic, by A.Cuffel. Medievalia et Humanistica, no. 34 (2008): 161-5.
• Review of Gestures and Looks in Medieval Narrative, by J. A. Burrow. Medieval Rev. 03.01.34 (2003).
  Full Text: WWW
• Review of Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions, by J. Elster. London Rev. Books 22, no. 15 (2000): 36-7.
• Review of Authority: Construction and Corrosion, by B. Lincoln. Hist. Pol. Thought 17, no. 3 (1996): 453-4.
• Review of Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, by J. Bossy, editor. Am. J. Legal Hist. 30, no. 3 (1986): 266-8.
  Full Text: HEIN (UMich users) | HEIN
• Review of Culture and History in Medieval Iceland, by K. Hastrup. Scandinavian Stud. 58 (1986): 183-6.
• Review of Njáls saga: Rechtsproblematik im Dienste soziokultureller Deutung, by C. L. Gottzmann. Scandinavian Stud. 57, no. 1 (1985): 84-5.
• Review of Feud in the Icelandic Saga, by J. L. Byock. Speculum 59, no. 2 (1984): 376-9. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
  Full Text: JSTOR (UMich users) | JSTOR

Reprints (Articles and other publications reprinted in full and Law Quadrangle)

• "Shedding a Tear." Law Quad. Notes 46, no. 3/47, no. 1 (2004): 88-9. (Excerpted from his book Faking It. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.)
• "Rescue and the War Story." Law Quad. Notes 44, no. 1 (2001): 64-7. (Excerpted from The Mystery of Courage. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000.)