Lloyd Bonfield

Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center for International Law

Professor Bonfield is a legal historian and internationally minded law professor, who teaches in the areas of trusts and estates, property, European Union law, and legal history.

For the 2007–2008 academic year, he will be a visiting professor of law at New York Law School and will hold a concurrent professorship at Tulane University, where he serves as Thomas Andre Jr. Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Graduate Studies and International External Relations. For 2008–09, Professor Bonfield will join New York Law School as a full-time tenured professor, teaching Comparative Legal History; Property; and Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests.

He edits Continuity and Change, a journal of social history demography and the law published by the Cambridge University Press. He has written extensively on the historical aspects of marriage settlements and inheritance. In March 2006, West Law School published Professor Bonfield’s American Law and the American Legal System in a Nutshell as part of its Nutshell Series. He is also collaborating on a volume (1688–1760) for the Oxford History of English Law.

In 2000, Professor Bonfield was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sumter Marks Award. He was awarded a Fulbright teaching and research award for the academic year 2005–06.