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Neglected no longer. Eminent American and British scholars, including (from left) James Griffin, of Oxford University, Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion, and Alan Ryan, of Oxford University, participated in an April 8 to 10 Editorial Institute conference devoted to the life and work of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, a 19th-century English judge, essayist, and social commentator. Stephen’s writing on such legal matters as capital punishment, insanity and criminal responsibility, and the law of evidence were profoundly influential, but are underappreciated today, according to institute codirector Christopher Ricks, BU’s William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and a Core Curriculum professor. Ricks and institute assistant director Frances Whistler currently are overseeing the compilation and editing of a new edition of important writings by Stephen (1829–1894). The edition and the conference are supported by a $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award Ricks received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Photo by Kalman Zabarsky
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April 2005
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