Prof. Christian R. Burset

Christian Burset is a legal historian whose research focuses on the British Empire and the early United States. His first book, An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy (Yale University Press 2023), examines how the eighteenth-century British Empire used different forms of law to shape the development of its colonies. His other work has explored topics including the historical relationship between jurisprudence and party politics, the nature of legal authority in the common-law tradition, and the interaction between law and economic change.

Burset has taught at Notre Dame Law School since 2018. He was previously a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law, and clerked for the Hon. José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Neil M. Gorsuch of the U.S. Supreme Court.

He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and an A.B. in history, with highest honors, from Princeton University.