Trials and Truths: Ordeal, Inquisition, and the Modern Adversarial Process

Professor Umphrey has taught at Amherst since 1993. Her fields of expertise include law and culture, trials, gender studies, and American legal and cultural history. She is currently completing a book on criminal responsibility in the Gilded Age trials of Harry K. Thaw, and has forthcoming an edited anthology, Trials, published by the International Library of Essays in Law and Society. She is also beginning a new project on law and love. Along with fellow Amherst professors Lawrence Douglas and Austin Sarat, she has co-edited the following volumes for The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought: Law and Catastrophe (2007), Law and the Sacred (2006), How Law Knows (2006), The Limits of Law (2005), Law on the Screen (2005), Law's Madness (2003), The Place of Law (2003), and Lives in the Law (2002). She holds a B.A., J.D, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

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