Robert Stanley
Professor
Office: Butte 731
Telephone: (530) 898-4504
Email: rhstanley@csuchico.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, University of Virginia (1986)
Dissertation: Dimensions of Law in
the Service of Order: Origins of the Federal Income Tax, 1861-1913
(1986).
Directed by Charles W. McCurdy.
Awards: Danforth Foundation Fellowship
(1980); Departmental DuPont Fellowship (1978); Associate Editor, Essays
in History (1981-82).
Publication: "Party Conflict and the Secessionist
Alternative: The Virginia House of Delegates as a Test Case,
1855-6l," Essays in History, 24
(1980): 5-27; Essays prize for best article, 1980.
Teaching: Instructor in History
(Spring 1982); Teaching Assistant, surveys of United States History (1979-81).
B.A. Philosophy (Honors), magna cum laude,
Texas Christian University (1975)
LEGAL EDUCATION
J.D., University of Texas School of Law
(1978)
Awards: Administrative
(Executive) Editor, Texas International Law Journal, (1977-78);
State Bar of Texas Business
Law Section Award for the best student
note on business law in a Texas law review (1978).
Publications: Note, Texas International
Law Journal, 13 (1978): 95-113, on Japanese electronic imports and
customs
law; Recent Development, Texas International
Law Journal, 12 (1977): 370-72, on tort jurisdiction under the
Warsaw Convention.
Other Work: Law
clerk in public and private contexts, including general civil practice
and education law, 1976-78.
Publication of ten analyses, from 1979
through 1982, of Supreme Court decisions on topics ranging from school
desegregation to the right to travel,
in the Supreme Court Researcher, a trade publication of The Research
Group,
Inc.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Arlington (1988-89),
and University of New Hampshire (1987-88)
Visiting Assistant Professor of History.
Courses Offered: Large format:
Surveys of Early and Modern United States History; Government and the Economy,
1919-1941;
The First World War at Home, 1914-1920.
Seminars: Topics in Early American Legal History, 1607-1877; Topics
in
Modern American Legal History, 1861-1980;
Introduction to Historical Thinking.
Brown University (1982-87)
Director, Center for Law and Liberal Education
(1985-87); Acting Director (1983-84); and Preceptor in Law and Society
(1982-87).
PUBLISHED WORKS
Dimensions of Law in the Service of
Order: Origins of the Federal Income Tax 1861-1913. (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993).
"When Monopoly Mattered," in John W. Johnson,
ed., Historic United States Court Cases, 1690-1990: An Encyclopedia
(New York: Garland Publishing, 1 9 92).
"Stanley Mathews," in Melvin 1. Uroisky,
ed., The Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary (New
York: Garland Publishing, 1994).
"Howell Edmunds Jackson," ibid.
Review, Regulating Big Business: Antitrust
in Great Britain and America, 1880-1990, by Tony Freyer
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1992), in the Journal of Economic History- (June, 1994).