Christian G. Samito

Christian G. Samito represents both plaintiffs and defendants in complex civil litigation matters, including business litigation, probate and fiduciary litigation, trade secrets, and tort matters. Christian also has extensive appellate experience on the state and federal level including drafting motions, briefs, and conducting oral argument in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and drafting petitions for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. One of Christian's recent appellate victories earned him a front page article in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly.

Editor, LEGAL HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA, a book series published by Southern Illinois University Press examining American legal history from the Mexican War to Jim Crow.

Becoming American Under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era (Cornell University Press, 2009).

Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009).

"The Intersection between Military Justice and Equal Rights: Mutinies, Courts-martial, and Black Civil War Soldiers" in Civil War History, pp. 170-202.

"Fear War Not In Him": The Civil War Letters of Major General Francis C. Barlow, U.S.A. (Fordham University Press).

Commanding Boston's Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (Fordham University Press).

Teaching Christian is a visiting assistant professor at Boston College, where he teaches courses in American history. Christian also teaches at Boston University School of Law about the legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction and constitutional history.

• Massachusetts Historical Society, January 27, 2010
• The Franklin N. Flaschner Judicial Institute, June 2, 2010 (Bench/Bar Reading Discussion Series event with judges from the Massachusetts Trial Court and Massachusetts Appeals Court)
• Massachusetts Bar Association, June 24, 2010
• Boston Public Library, February 16, 2011

Honors & Service Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Member of the USS Constitution Museum Board of Overseers