I just completed my dissertation, "Creating Justice in Late Medieval France: The Seigneurial Court of Saint Germain des Prés," under the direction of Professor Kathryn Norberg in the UCLA Department of History. My project is a social history of the evolution of law-making, court offices, legal culture, and popular understanding of judicial institutions in and around Paris in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I have been able to work on previously unexamined archival sources--civil and criminal court records from the seigneurial court of the abbey of Saint Germain des Prés--that are valuable in creating new perspectives in my field. Standing as it does at the interdisciplinary crossroads of  both Medieval and Early Modern, as well as legal, social, and cultural history, my work challenges current concepts of increasing royal power and inaccessibility of judicial courts during this period.