This paper examines the reciprocal interplay between Peter Fitzpatrick's life and work, between significant people, events, ideas and values, and the ways in which he made and re-made himself. It illuminates Peter's struggle, especially from the 1990s onwards, to place ethics centre stage in both life and law. Drawing on archival and secondary research, including interviews with Peter's family, former colleagues and students, this contribution to legal life writing adds to what we already knew about Peter and his scholarship. It assesses and clarifies his key ideas and their intersection with his ethics and lived experiences. It is hoped that the paper will encourage those who are less familiar with Peter's work, or who find his writing daunting, to tackle it anew and appreciate its significance.

David Sugarman reflects briefly on developments regarding legal biography and considers the future role and value of biography within the legal community and especially in the context of socio-legal research.

Although maltreatment is known to have detrimental effects on socioemotional development, the relation of those effects to type of maltreatment and child age is not clear. Most studies either focus solely on physical abuse or do not differentiate among types of maltreatment. Furthermore, most concentrate on young children. Studies of psychological maltreatment in young children indicate that physical abuse and psychological maltreatment tend to co-occur, severity of injury is not related to severity of psychological maltreatment or to developmental problems, and severity of psychological maltreatment is related to developmental outcomes. The present study investigated (a) relations among types of physical and psychological maltreatment and (b) their effect on development in an ethnically diverse sample of maltreated school-age children and adolescents. The results indicated that, as in young children, physical and psychological maltreatment co-occurred in most cases. As with young children, severity of emotional abuse was related to severity of physical neglect in school-age children; among adolescents, however, it was related to severity of physical injury. Moreover, severity of emotional abuse was related to both behavior problems and depression. The differences between the patterns of effects for school-age children and those for adolescents are discussed, as are implications of the findings for intervention.

Today, the history of law and society has become an exciting growth industry. But just a couple of decades ago this possibility would have seemed implausible. Indeed, when Willard Hurst became professor of law in Madison in 1937, modern legal history was, to put it kindly, dead. Reviving this moribund discipline required more than imagination and an acute awareness of the point and nature of law. Sleeping Beauty had to be woken with a kiss, and Hurst surely brought a serious, tenacious passion to his vocation. Through exhortation, inspiration, and sheer determination, he attempted to resuscitate a huge domain.

Previous studies have shown high rates of schizophrenia among the Afro-Caribbean population in Britain. In order to assess the role of genetic factors in the aetiology of this phenomenon, we have used a standardised family history method (FHRDC) to compare lifetime morbidity risks for first-degree relatives of Afro-Caribbean and white patients with RDC schizophrenia admitted in Central Manchester between 1982 and 1988. Lifetime morbidity risk for parents of Afro-Caribbean subjects was 8.9%, and for parents of white patients 8.4%. For the siblings of black probands, however, the risk was 15.9%, as compared with 1.8% for white siblings (P < 0.05). Among siblings of UK-born Afro-Caribbean probands, morbid risk was even higher at 27.3% (P = 0.001). High rates among siblings of younger Afro-Caribbean patients are consistent with previous reports of a higher incidence in the UK-born. These observations suggest that schizophrenia among Afro-Caribbeans is no less familial than for the remainder of the population, but that the increased frequency of the disorder is due to environmental factors which are most common in the Afro-Caribbean community, and capable of precipitating schizophrenia in those who are genetically predisposed.

Are lawyers professionals, constrained by public-service limitations on their work, or free-wheeling business people? So the current debate surrounding professionalism versus commercialism is articulated. All too often this controversy is grounded in overdrawn dualisms, a sort of Gemeinschaft-Gesellschaft: a golden age of the lawyer as public servant that has given way to the ethics of the marketplace. The starting point of this essay is that this way of thinking about the work of lawyers is unhelpful, as it encourages a belief in stark divisions between a pure realm of “lawyering” and the grubby world of “business,” and between the “public” and the “private” dimensions of lawyers' work. In practice, both lawyering and business and the public and private fields of lawyering are, and probably always have been, imbricated within each other. This article seeks to demonstrate this coalescence from historical materials.