Columbia Law School Professor Emeritus Robert A. Ferguson—a man of letters whose expansive, category-hopping approach to legal scholarship ranged from a critically acclaimed book on the plight of the incarcerated to a historical study of court trials as public, political, and literary events—died on July 1, 2017, after a long battle with cancer at 75.
Books in order of publication:
Law and Letters in American Culture – 1984
The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820 – 1997
Reading the Early Republic – 2004
The Trial in American Life – 2008
Alone in America: The Stories That Matter – 2013
Inferno: An Anatomy of American Punishment – 2014
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