William Ian Miller

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William Ian Miller

Law

#2287

World Rank

#2859

Historical Rank

#1061

USA Rank

International Law

#1065

World Rank

#1286

Historical Rank

#483

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, William Ian Miller is the Thomas G. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He is also Honorary Professor of History at the University of St. Andrews. His area of specialty is the sagas of medieval Iceland, but he also has written extensively on revenge and on various emotions, mostly self-attentional. He grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1969; a Ph.D in English and a JD in law at Yale 1975, 1980.

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William Ian Miller's Published Works

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Published Works

The Anatomy of Disgust (1997) (898)
Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence (1993) (253)
The Mystery of Courage (2001) (131)
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga Iceland (1991) (109)
Faking It (2003) (101)
Statistical Process Control (2013) (97)
Choosing the Avenger: Some Aspects of the Bloodfeud in Medieval Iceland and England (1983) (87)
The maximum order of an element of a finite symmetric group (1987) (72)
Eye for an eye (2005) (69)
Non-Parametric Statistics (2013) (61)
Some aspects of householding in the medieval Icelandic commonwealth (1988) (33)
Deep Inner Lives, Individualism and People of Honour (1995) (27)
Clint Eastwood and Equity: Popular Culture's Theory of Revenge (1998) (26)
Gift, Sale, Payment, Raid: Case Studies in the Negotiation and Classification of Exchange in Medieval Iceland (1986) (25)
Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West (1985) (24)
Avoiding Legal Judgment: The Submission of Disputes to Arbitration in Medieval Iceland (1984) (24)
The first liberty : religion and the American republic (1986) (22)
Of optimal views and other anxieties of attending to the beautiful and sublime (2002) (20)
Law and Literature in Medieval Iceland: 'Ljosvetninga saga' and 'Valla-Ljots saga' (1989) (16)
Audun and the Polar Bear: Luck, Law, and Largesse in a Medieval Tale of Risky Business (2008) (14)
Emotions And The Sagas (1992) (12)
The Ottoman Empire and its successors, 1801-1927 : being a revised and enlarged edition of "The Ottoman Empire, 1801-1913." (1966) (12)
Wicked Pleasures: Meditations on the Seven Deadly Sins (1998) (11)
OpenStat Reference Manual (2012) (11)
The Ottoman Empire, 1801-1913 (2009) (11)
Ordeal in Iceland (1988) (10)
Faking It: Contents (2003) (9)
The first liberty (1986) (9)
Of Outlaws, Christians, Horsemeat, and Writing: Uniform Laws and Saga Iceland (1991) (8)
Dreams, Prophecy and Sorcery: Blaming the Secret Offender in Medieval Iceland (1986) (8)
'Why is your axe bloody?': A Reading of Njàls Saga (2014) (6)
In Defense of Revenge (1999) (6)
Is a Gift Forever (2007) (5)
Upward Contempt (1995) (4)
Sanctuary, Redlight Districts, and Washington, D.C.: Some Observations on Neuman's Anomalous Zones (Symposium: Surveying Law and Borders) (1996) (4)
Focus on Faculty (1998) (4)
Darwin's Disgust (2021) (4)
Statistics and Measurement Concepts with OpenStat (2012) (4)
The Scope of a Spanish Grammar for Minimal Communicative Competence (1984) (4)
Cascading Crater Detection with Active Learning (2011) (3)
Hrafnkel or the Ambiguities: Hard Cases, Hard Choices (2016) (3)
Finding, sharing and risk of loss: of whales, bees and other valuable finds in Iceland, Denmark and Norway (2015) (3)
JUSTIFYING SKARPHEDINN: OF PRETEXT AND POLITICS IN THE ICELANDIC BLOODFEUD (2016) (2)
Home and Homelessness in the Middle of Nowhere (2004) (2)
Eye for an Eye: Conclusion (2005) (1)
Medieval Iceland and Modern Legal Scholarship (1992) (1)
Weak legs: misbehavior before the enemy. (2000) (1)
Faking It: Say It Like You Mean It: Mandatory Faking and Apology (2003) (1)
Beating Up on Women and Old Men and Other Enormities: A Social Historical Inquiry into Literary Sources (1988) (1)
Moral Courage and Civility (2001) (1)
Fundamental Regions for the Simple Group of Order 168 in S 4 (1)
Elementary Problems: E3225-E3230 (1987) (1)
Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments His Shrinking Brain, Which He Flatters Himself Formerly Did Him Noble Service (2011) (1)
Feeling Another's Pain: Sympathy and Psychology Saga Style (2014) (1)
Mustering Support and Going Public (ch. 7 cont.) (2017) (0)
The Ójafnaðarmaðr (The “Unevenman”) (2017) (0)
Rome: Self-impoverishment and self-confidence (2008) (0)
Freyfaxi and Hrafnkel (2017) (0)
Gifts upward: Repaying by receiving and funny money (2008) (0)
Faking It: Hoist with His Own Petard (2003) (0)
University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository (1998) (0)
The Middle English Ballad Robyn and Gandeleyn (line57) (1978) (0)
May You Have My Luck (2021) (0)
New-Found Land and Setting up Households (chs. 1–2) (2017) (0)
Njála’s Unity Problem and the Very Beginning: Chapter 1 (2014) (0)
Jesse L. Byock, Feud in the Icelandic Saga . Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 293; 4 maps. $24.95. (1984) (0)
Faking It: Acting Our Roles: Mimicry, Makeup, and Pills (2003) (0)
The Messenger (2020) (0)
Faking It: False (Im)modesty (2003) (0)
The Trial (chs. 11–12) (2017) (0)
The Alchemist: Role as Addiction (2003) (0)
Back to Harald: The yielding of accounts (2008) (0)
Sam and Morpheus (2017) (0)
The Trial of Flosi and the Battle: Chapters 135, 141–5 (2014) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Remember Me: Mnemonics, Debts (of Blood), and the Making of the Person (2005) (0)
A Conclusion: Justice and Exits (2014) (0)
How Not to End a Saga, Unless...: Chapters 146–59 (2014) (0)
Faking It: Notes (2003) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Teaching a Lesson: Pain and Poetic Justice (2005) (0)
Making a Scene: Chapters 34–5, 48 (2014) (0)
Helping Thorir and buying the bear (2008) (0)
Review of Culture and History in Medieval Iceland (1986) (0)
Outrageous Fortune (2021) (0)
Richness and risk (2008) (0)
Faking It: Boys Crying and Girls Playing Dumb (2003) (0)
Marriage Formation and Dissolution: Chapters 2–34 (2014) (0)
Hrafnkel’s Offer (ch. 7) (2017) (0)
Shedding a Tear (2004) (0)
Hanging Upside-Down and Sam’s Self-Judgment (ch. 13) (2017) (0)
Thorkel’s Homily on Fellow-Feeling and Commensurating Pain (ch. 10) (2017) (0)
The Problem of Brains (2002) (0)
Of free and closing gifts (2008) (0)
Contents (1988) (0)
Valgard ‘the Wise’ and Hoskuld’s Blood: Chapters 107–16 (2014) (0)
The Item Banking Program (2013) (0)
Eggs in one basket and market value (2008) (0)
Eye for an Eye: The Talion (2005) (0)
Looking Forward: Njal’s Prescience: Chapters 22–3 (2014) (0)
Losing It (2017) (0)
Otkel vs. Gunnar: Chapters 46–56 (2014) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Works Cited (2005) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Of Hands, Hospitality, Personal Space, and Holiness (2005) (0)
The commitment to plausibility (2008) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Comparing Values and the Ranking Game (2005) (0)
Lord of the Table: Judges 19 and the Last Supper (2021) (0)
Hypocrisy and Jesus (2003) (0)
Faking It: Naked Truth: Hey, Wanna F***? (2003) (0)
The “True” Nature of Hrafnkel’s Transformation (ch. 16) (2017) (0)
A Tale of Two Hoskulds: Chapters 93–9 (2014) (0)
Hrafnkel’s Judgment and Justification (ch. 19) (2017) (0)
Coda: The whiteness of the bear (2008) (0)
Epilogue: Go Litel Boke amidst a Flurry of Auto-Antonyms (2021) (0)
A Jaundiced View of Authenticity (and Identity) (2021) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Filthy Lucre and Holy Dollars (2005) (0)
The Saga’s Economics (ch. 14) (2017) (0)
The Self, the Double, and the Sense of Self (2003) (0)
The Limits of Appealing to Disgust Joshua (2018) (0)
The Law of Conservation of Good Things (2021) (0)
“I Love You”: Taking a Bullet versus Biting One (2003) (0)
Kari and Friends: Chapters 145–55 (2014) (0)
Setting up Thrain: Chapters 90–2 (2014) (0)
Eye for an Eye: A Pound of Flesh (2005) (0)
Faking It: Flattery and Praise (2003) (0)
Unionizing at the University of Vermont. (1990) (0)
Competition (2020) (0)
Gunnar vs. the Thrihyrning People: Chapters 57–66 (2014) (0)
Faking It: Virtues Naturally Immune to Hypocrisy (2003) (0)
Bergthora vs. Hallgerd, Part II: Some Facts (2014) (0)
F(1) and F(d) Rejection Theorems (1971) (0)
The Product Moment Correlation (2013) (0)
The Talionic Mint: Funny Money (2005) (0)
The story of Audun from the Westfjords (Audun’s story ) (2008) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Introductory Themes: Images of Evenness (2005) (0)
Bergthora vs. Hallgerd, Part I. The Theory: Chapters 35–45 (2014) (0)
Faking It: Introduction: Split in Two (2003) (0)
Who in Hell Are We Rooting For? (ch. 18) (2017) (0)
Ann Arbor, December 1997 (1998) (0)
Rescue and the War Story (2001) (0)
Gaming the system: Gift-Ref (2008) (0)
Eyvind Returns; a Griðkona Takes Over (ch. 17) (2017) (0)
Antihypocrisy: Looking Bad in Order to Be Good (2003) (0)
Eye for an Eye: The Proper Price of Property in an Eye (2005) (0)
Dealing with King Harald (2008) (0)
Farewell Freyfaxi and Frey (chs. 15–16) (2017) (0)
The GradeBook Program (2013) (0)
Thorbjorn’s Rejection (ch. 7 cont.) (2017) (0)
03.01.34, Burrow, Gestures and Looks (2003) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Dismemberment and Price Lists (2005) (0)
Abstracts (1988) (0)
Sam’s Last Gasp (ch. 20) (2017) (0)
Saying no to kings (2008) (0)
A Somewhat Querulous Introduction (2017) (0)
Conversion and the Genius of the Law: Chapters 100–6 (2014) (0)
A Relic of Divine Dispensation (1984) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Preface: A Theory of Justice? (2005) (0)
Preparation for the Next Althing: Chapters 132–7 (2014) (0)
Review of Authority: Construction and Corrosion (1996) (0)
Freysgoði, Frey, and Freyfaxi (2017) (0)
Giving the bear to Svein: The interests in the bear (2008) (0)
Deceit in War and Trade (2009) (0)
Revenge for Gunnar: Chapters 77–81 (2014) (0)
Vile Jelly (2020) (0)
Of Names and Manageability (2017) (0)
The Atlantic Interlude and Hrapp: Chapters 82–9 (2014) (0)
At the Core at Last: The Primordial Jew (2003) (0)
A Somewhat Dour Introduction (2021) (0)
Review of Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, by J. Bossy, editor. (1986) (0)
Authentic Moments with the Beautiful and Sublime (2003) (0)
Faking It: In Divine Services and Other Ritualized Performances (2003) (0)
Faking It: Passing and Wishing You Were What You Are Not (2003) (0)
Sam, Einar, and Hrafnkel (chs. 3–6) (2017) (0)
Odds and the End (2021) (0)
Skarphedin Ascendans, Flosi’s Ninth Nights: Chapters 117–23 (2014) (0)
Regiving and reclaiming gifts (2008) (0)
The Burning: Chapters 124–32 (2014) (0)
Yale Kamisar: Up Close and Personal (2004) (0)
Robert Bartlett: A Profile (2016) (0)
The Ottoman Empire and its successors, 1801-1922 (0)
'I Can Take a Hint': Social Ineptitude, Embarrassment, and the King of Comedy (1994) (0)
Repaying the bear (2008) (0)
Eye for an Eye: Satisfaction Not Guaranteed (2005) (0)
The Two Thorgeirs and Death of Gunnar: Chapters 67–77 (2014) (0)
The Question of Courage (2012) (0)
The Limits of Appealing to Disgust Joshua May (2019) (0)

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