Christian G. Fritz is a legal historian and a
law professor
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the Uni ...
at the
University of New Mexico School of Law
The University of New Mexico School of Law (UNM Law or New Mexico Law) is the law school of the University of New Mexico, a public research university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1947, it is the first and only law school in the state.
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. He writes on U.S. constitutional history, and his 2007 book ''American Sovereigns: the People and America's Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War'', published by
Cambridge University Press, traces the historical roots of
popular sovereignty in U.S. law.
Fritz received his B.A. degree in 1975 and his Ph.D. in history in 1986 from the
University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. degree in 1978 from the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
References
External links
Choice Reviews OnlineHildref Publication ReviewLaw and Politics Book Review
H-Net Review
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Legal historians
University of New Mexico faculty
University of California, Hastings College of the Law alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
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