Warren M. Billings trained over sixty MA students, several of whom subsequently earned doctorates at such schools as the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, the College of William and Mary, LSU, and the University of Virginia. He is the author or editor of reviews, articles, book chapters, and books.
His shorter publications have appeared in Agricultural History, the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, Law Library Journal, Louisiana History, the Journal of Southern History, the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and the William and Mary Quarterly, among others. His most recent books include The Papers of Sir William Berkeley (Richmond, 2007), The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606-1700 (rev. ed., 2007), A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (Richmond, 2004), Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia (Baton Rouge, 2004), and A Law Unto Itself?: Essays in the New Louisiana Legal History (Baton Rouge, 2001).
He is chairman of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities’ Jamestown Rediscovery Advisory Board, a member of APVA’s Board of Trustees, a member of the Federal Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission, and Historian of the Supreme Court of Louisiana. In 2002, he held the Visiting Williams Professorship of Law at the T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond, where he also delivered that year’s annual Emanuel Emroch Lecture. Sometime fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a Virginia Historical Society Mellon Research Fellow, Dr. Billings holds honorary life membership in the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians and the Company of Fellows of the Louisiana Historical Association. The LHA presented him with its Garnie W. McGinty Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, and the Virginia Historical Society conferred its Richard Slattern Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography upon him in 2005. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer on colonial Virginia and Louisiana legal history.
