John R. Pagan
University Professor of Law
Courses Taught Constitutional Law Election Law Sexual Orientation and the Law Legal History Legal History Seminar
Profile

Professor John Pagan is a University Professor and served as Dean of the Law School from 1997-2003. He teaches and writes in the areas of legal history, constitutional law, and sexuality and the law. Professor Pagan's book, Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia, won the American Historical Association's James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History.  

Memberships
Phi Beta Kappa
Assocation of Marshall Scholars
Professional Experience
University Professor (2003-present)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Va.
Dean and Professor of Law (1997-2003)
University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Va.
Global Professor and Director of the Global Law School Program (1996-97)
New York University School of Law, New York, NY
Professor of Law (1986-95)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Ark.
Associate Professor of Law (1984-86)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Ark.
Associate Professor of Law (1983-84)
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Assistant Professor of Law (1979-83)
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Clerk (1978-79)
Hon. Ozell M. Trask, United States Court of Appeals, 9th Cir., Phoenix & San Francisco
Publications
Books

Anne Orthwood’s Bastard: Sex and Law in Early America (2d ed. Oxford U. Press 2009).

Anne Orthwood's Bastard: Sex and Law in Early Virginia (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Awarded The American Historical Association's Prize in Atlantic History

Reviews
Book Review, 117 Am. Hist. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2012) (reviewing Elaine Forman Crane, Witches, Wife Beaters, and Whores: Common Law and Common Folk in Early America (2011)).

Book Review, 95 J. Am. Hist. 179 (2008) (reviewing Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality in Early America, ed. Thomas Foster (2007).

Law Faculty Directory
Constitutional and Civil Rights Law Curriculum
Education
Ph.D., Oxford University (Merton College) 1997
J.D., Harvard University 1978
M.Litt., Oxford University (Merton College) 1975
A.B., College of William and Mary 1973
Contact Information
(804) 289-8188
(Mobile)
(804) 289-8683 (Fax)
Areas of Expertise
Legal History
Constitutional Law
Sexuality and the Law