William W Bassett

Books:

Bassett on California Community Property Law (The Expert Series), (Thomson/West, 2007 ed.).

Religious Organizations and the Law (2 volumes) (Thomson/West, 1997 and annual supplements).

California Community Property Law, (West Group, c2002).

Canonical Studies in Honor of Peter J. M. Huizing: Ius Sequitur Vitam (James H. Provost & Walf Knut, eds., Leuven, Belgium: Uitgeveru Peeters, 1990).

Toward Vatican III: The Unfinished Agenda (David Tracy & Johann Baptist Metz, eds., Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1980).

The Finances of the Church (New York: Seabury Press, 1979) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium; 117).

Judgment in the Church (New York: Seabury Press, 1977) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium; 107).

Croire sur Commande?: Problèmes Juridiques Autour du Magistère (Paris: Editions Beauchesne, c1976) (co-author) (Concilium. Droit canonique; no 117).

Discipline Ecclésiastique (Paris: Editions Beauchesne, c1975) (co-author) (Concilium. Droit canonique; no 107).

The Future of the Religious Life (London: Concilium, 1975) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium; new ser., v. 7, no. 10 (97)).

Experience of the Spirit (New York: Seabury Press, 1974/6) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium; religion in the seventies; no. 99).

The Future of Marriage in the Church (London: Burns & Oates, 1973) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium; new ser., v. 7, no. 9 (87)).

Celibacy of the Catholic Priest (London: Burns & Oates, 1972) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium; v. 8, no. 8 (78)).

Celibacy in the Church (New York: Herder and Herder, 1972) (co-editor with Peter Huizing) (Concilium. Canon law, v. 78).

The Once & Future Church: a Communion of Freedom; Studies on Unity & Collegiality in the Church (Staten Island, N.Y., Alba House, 1971) (co-author).

The Choosing of Bishops: Historical and Theological Studies (Hartford, Canon Law Society of America, 1971) (editor).

The Bond of Marriage: An Ecumenical and Interdisciplinary Study (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968) (Spanish ed.: Santouder, 1971) (editor).

The Determination of Rite (Roma: Gregorian University Press, 1967) (Analecta Gregoriana; vol. 157. Series Facultatis Iuris Canonici. Sectio B; n. 21).

Book Chapters:

"Religious Organizations and the State: How the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity Came Before the Civil Courts," in Witte, John & Alexander, Frank, eds., Law and Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Articles:

"Private Religious Hospitals: Limitations Upon Autonomous Moral Choices in Reproductive Medicine," 17 Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy 455 (2001).

"Religious Charities as Employers: The California Supreme Court's Stretch of Immunity from Work-Related Discrimination Suits," 26 San Francisco Attorney 34 (April-May 2000), reprinted as "Religious Charities as Employers in California: The Supreme Court's Stretch of Immunity from Work-Related Discrimination Suits," 30 Forum 10 (May 2000).

"The American Civil Corporation, the 'Incorporation Movement' and the Canon Law of the Catholic Church" (Symposium on Ex Corde Ecclesiae), 25 Journal of College and University Law 721 (1999).

"Implied Terms in Contracts - The Death of Contract - The Life of Institutions," Proceedings of the 60th Annual Convention/Canon Law Society of America (Toledo, Ohio, 1998).

"The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993," Proceedings of the 59th Annual Convention/Canon Law Society of America (Toledo, Ohio, 1997).

"Preserving the Identity of Religious Organizations in the Secular State," Proceedings of the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand (1996).

"International Law in Archaic Rome: War and Religion" (Book Reviews), 38 American Journal of Legal History 98 (1994).

"The Origin of the Law of Admiralty in the Consulatus Maris," "The courts of the Exchequer," and "The medieval law of the corporation." The Dictionary of the Middle Ages, multi vol., (Strayer, Joseph ed., New York: Scribners, 1992).

"Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe" (Book Review), 6 Journal of Law & Religion 491 (1988).

"Repealing Quasi-Community Property: A Proposal to Readopt a Unitary Marital Property Scheme," 22 University of San Francisco Law Review 463 (1988).

"Christian Rights in Civil Litigation: Translating Religion into Justiciable Categories," 46 Jurist 229 (1986).

"The Myth of the Nomad in Property Law" (Colloquium on Law and Religion in the First Year Curriculum: A Loyola Law School Colloquium), 4 Journal of Law & Religion 133 (1986).

"Religion and Religious Institutions: The Rising Din of Litigation" (Symposium: Nonprofit Organizations), 20 University of San Francisco Law Review 775 (1986).

"Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition" (Book Review), 85 Columbia Law Review 1573 (1985).

"Revisionist History: The Study of Legal Origins," 45 Jurist 230 (1985).

"Relating Canon and Civil Law" (Conference on Civil and Canon Law) (transcript), 44 Jurist 3 (1984).

"Religion and Religious Law in the Quest for Marital Harmony: Developments in the Jurisprudence of Contemporary Canon Law," 3 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 349 (1980).

"Canon Law and the Common Law," 29 Hastings Law Journal 1383 (1978).

Private Hospitals and the Public Right: Needed Standards of Consent for the Statutory Delegation of the Power of Eminent Domain," 11 University of San Francisco Law Review 53 (1976).

"Fundamental Fairness in the Process of Law," 7 Concilium 157 (1976).

"The Code of Canon Law and a Crisis of Reform," 9 Journal of Ecumenical Studies 5 (1973).

"Reemergence of the 'State Action' Requirement in Race Relations Cases," 22 Catholic University Law Review 39 (1972).

"Law and Institutions in the Early Church," 32 The Jurist 224 (1972).

"Trullan Impediment and the Oriental Form of Marriage," 31 The Jurist 392 (1971).

"Subsidiarity, Order and Freedom in the Church," 20 Cross Currents 141 (1971).

"The Office of Episcopal Vicar," 30 The Jurist 285 (1970).

"Divorce and Remarriage," 162 American Ecclesiastical Review 20 (1970).

"Due Process and Academic Freedom," 15 The Catholic Lawyer 178 (1969).

"Law and the Gift of the Spirit," 44 Thought 165 (1969).

"The Impediment of Mixed Religion of the Synod in Trullo (691)," 29 The Jurist 383 (1969).

"Eugenics: Christian Laws," The Encyclopedia of Bioethics 157.