Christian Burset

Academic Year: 
2014-15
Direction: 
From Yale
Exchange Partners: 
Cambridge University
Research Interest: 
A Common Law? Legal Pluralism in the British Empire, C. 1740-1800

Christian Burset is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, where he focuses on Anglo-American legal history. His dissertation examines the emergence of legal pluralism in the eighteenth-century British Empire. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in history from Princeton University.