Richard Keyser
Position title: Teaching Associate
Email: rkeyser@wisc.edu
Phone: 608.890.4647
Address:
Office: 7131 Sewell Social Sciences
Curriculum Vitae (pdf) | Legal Studies Program
Office Hours: TBA
Biography
My teaching and research interests focus on legal and environmental history. My teaching home is in the Legal Studies Program, where my classes include a two-semester sequence on American Legal History (cross-listed with History) and Law and Environment (cross-listed with Environmental Studies). For the History Department I also teach European Environmental History (cross-listed with Environmental Studies). My current projects center on customary law, early property law, and community-based woodland management in medieval France.
Education
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, History, 2001.
M.A., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, History.
B.S., College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Biology.
Selected Publication
- “Agreement Supersedes Law, and Love Judgment: Legal Flexibility and Amicable Settlement in Anglo-Norman England.” Law and History Review 30.1 (Feb., 2012): 37-88.
- “The Transformation of Traditional Woodland Management: Commercial Sylviculture in Medieval Champagne.” French Historical Studies 32 (2009): 353-84.
- “La transformation de l’échange des dons pieux: Montier-la-Celle, Champagne, 1100-1350.” Revue Historique 628 (2003): 793-816.
- “Du don au contrat: la transformation médiévale des transactions fonciers. L’exemple de Montier-la-Celle.” La Vie en Champagne, n.s. 35 (2003): 4-11.
- “Les archives de l’abbaye de Montier-la-Celle jusqu’en 1350.” La Vie en Champagne, n.s. 1 (1995):35-41.
History Courses
- History 261 – American Legal History to the 1860s – Syllabus 2017 (pdf)
- History 262 – American Legal History to the Present – Syllabus 2023 (pdf)
- History 328 – Environmental History of Europe – Syllabus 2022 (pdf)
- History 430 – Law and Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives – Syllabus 2023 (pdf)