Christopher TomlinsChristopher Tomlins is the Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an affiliated research professor of the American Bar Foundation, Chicago. His research concentrates on Anglo-American legal history frm the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. His most recent book is Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought (2017), coedited with Justin Desautels-Stein, and he is currently working on a history of the Turner Rebellion and slavery in antebellum Virginia. Read More Read Less