Curriculum Vitae:

Research Interests

Dr. Mueller is author of a monograph on one of the most important medieval law professors, Huguccio. The Life, Works, and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (CUA Press, 1994), as well as a book (in German) on the criminalization of abortion in the late medieval West, Die Abtreibung. Anfänge der Kriminalisierung, 1140-1650. (Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Boehlau, 2000). He is co-editor (with Ludwig Schmugge) of volumes 3 and 5 (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001, 2002) of the Repertorium Poenitentiaria Germanicum, which catalogues (in Latin) entries relating to German recipients in the records of the Apostolic Court of Penance under Calixt III (1455-1458) and Paul II (1464-1471). Together with Mary E. Sommar, he has co-edited a collection of essays on Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition (Washington/DC, 2006), to honor his doctoral adviser, Kenneth Pennington. Dr. Mueller has also published articles in American, French, German, and Italian journals. They deal with late medieval legal theory, its application in the courts, and papal administration.