Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal History, Yale Law School
John H. Langbein, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School, is a leading authority on fiduciary law and a distinguished scholar of legal history. He teaches and writes in four fields: probate and trust law, pension and employee benefit law (ERISA); Anglo-American and European legal history; and modern comparative law.
Before moving to Yale in 1989, Langbein was the Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign Law at the University of Chicago. In the 1997-98 academic year he served as the Goodhart Professor of Legal Science at Cambridge University. From 1990 to 2001 he was Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale. He has also held academic appointments at Stanford University, Oxford University, New York University, and the Max Planck Institutes in Frankfurt and Freiberg, Germany. He is an honorary fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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