I’m now the owner of The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (Roger K. Newman ed. 2009). 

So far I’ve found four biographies with military law connections:  Duke Law Professor Paul Carrington’s biographical sketch of Francis Lieber, St. Mary’s University School of Law Professor Michael Ariens’ sketch of Edmund Morgan Jr., Gene Fidell’s sketch of Kenneth C. Royall–the chief defense counsel in the German saboteurs case who would later serve as Secretary of War and Secretary of the Army, and LSU Law Professor Paul Baier’s sketch of Frederick Bernays Wiener.  I never knew that Wiener was Sigmund Freud’s great-nephew.

Colonel Winthop is mentioned in Wiener’s biographical sketch, but doesn’t have one of his own.

One Response to “The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law”

1. Look, Man- says:

   December 29, 2009 at 8:41 am

   Nice christmas present. You know- that is a sign of SERIOUS geekdom. Sheesh, all I got was another history of the supreme court and a bio of John Marshall.