Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Ball, Carlos A., “The Backlash Thesis and Same-Sex Marriage: Learning from Brown v. Board of Education and Its Aftermath,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 14 (April 2006), 1493–1538.
Bell, Mary McCampbell, “Using Probate Law to Sidestep Missing Records: James Madison McCrary Shows the Way,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 92 (June 2004), 87–95.
Carter, W. Burlette, “The Age of Innocence: The First 25 Years of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, 1906 to 1931,” Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, 8 (Spring 2006), 211–91.
Carver, Katherine J., “The Legal Implications and Mysteries Surrounding the Archimedes Palimpsest,” American Journal of Legal History, 47 (April 2005), 119–60.
Chin, Gabriel J., “Ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment in Ohio,” Western New England Law Review, 28 (no. 2, 2006), 179–98.
Collett, Teresa Stanton, “A Brief Catechism on Marriage,” Regent University Law Review, 18 (no. 2, 2005–2006), 301–13.
Cornell, Saul, “The Early American Origins of the Modern Gun Control Debate: The Right to Bear Arms, Firearms Regulation, and the Lessons of History,” Stanford Law & Policy Review, 17 (no. 3, 2006), 571–96.
Dishman, Robert B., “Breaking the Bonds: The Role of New Hampshire’s Courts in Freeing Those Wrongly Enslaved, 1640s–1740s,” Historical New Hampshire, 59 (Fall 2005), 79–91.
Emberton, Carole, “The Limits of Incorporation: Violence, Gun Rights, and Gun Regulation in the Reconstruction South,” Stanford Law & Policy Review, 17 (no. 3, 2006), 615–33.
Fabrikant, Robert, “Emancipation and the Proclamation: Of Contrabands, Congresss, and Lincoln,” Howard Law Journal, 49 (Winter 2006), 313–403.
Farrell, James M., “‘Preserving Posterity from Tyranny’: John Adams and the Claremont Decisions,” Historical New Hampshire, 59 (Fall 2005), 130–37.
Finkelman, Paul, “Thomas Jefferson, Original Intent, and the Shaping of American Law: Learning Constitutional Law from the Writings of Jefferson,” New York University Annual Survey of American Law, 62 (no. 1, 2006), 45–84.
Harris, Angela P., “From Stonewall to the Suburbs? Toward a Political Economy of Sexuality,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 14 (April 2006), 1539–82.
Hepple, Bob, “The European Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education,” University of Illinois Law Review (no. 3, 2006), 605–23.
Hobson, Charles F., “Defining the Office: John Marshall as Chief Justice,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 154 (June 2006), 1421–61.
Katyal, Sonia K., “Sexuality and Sovereignty: The Global Limits and Possibilities of Lawrence,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 14 (April 2006), 1429–92.
Kende, Mark S., “The Constitutionality of the Death Penalty: South Africa as a Model for the United States,” George Washington International Law Review, 38 (no. 2, 2006), 209–50.
Klinetobe, Charles, “Jury Trials and Gerrymanders: The Legal Effort to Maintain Segregation in July of 1957,” Historian, 68 (Summer 2006), 221–40.
Lee, Randy, “Nineteenth Century Visions of a Twenty-First Century Bar: Were Dickens’s Expectations for Lawyers Too Great?,” Boston College Third World Law Journal, 26 (Spring 2006), 283–97.
Mashaw, Jerry L., “Recovering American Administrative Law: Federalist Foundations, 1787–1801,” Yale Law Journal, 115 (April 2006), 1256–1344.
Merkel, William G., “A Cultural Turn: Reflections on Recent Historical and Legal Writing on the Second Amendment,” Stanford Law & Policy Review, 17 (no. 3, 2006), 671–98.
Newborn, Newton N., “Judicial Decision Making and the End of Slavery in Illinois,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 98 (Spring–Summer 2005), 7–33.
Peters, Shawn Francis, “‘Fighting Words’: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire and Jehovah’s Witnesses in New Hampshire during World War II,” Historical New Hampshire, 59 (Fall 2005), 113–29.
Rosen, Zvi S., “The Irony of Populism: The Republican Shift and the Inevitability of American Aristocracy,” Regent University Law Review, 18 (no. 2, 2005–2006), 271–99.
Stein, Michael Ashley, “Foreword: Disabling Brown,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 14 (April 2006), 1421–28.
Stoykovich, Eric C., “Bridge over Troubled Waters: Dover v. The Proprietors of Portsmouth Bridge and the Changing Economic and Legal Landscape, 1815–1845,” Historical New Hampshire, 59 (Fall 2005), 92–112.
Tie, Han, “Meiguo falushi yanjiuzhong youguan siren chanquande jige wenti” (Property rights in American legal history), American Studies Quarterly (Beijing) (no. 1, 2003), 30–47. In Chinese.
Tie, Han, “Shilun Meiguo gongsifa xiang minzhuhua he ziyouhua fangxiande lishixin yanbian” (The democratization and liberalization of U.S. corporate law in historical perspective), American Studies Quarterly (Beijing) (no. 4, 2003), 42–63. In Chinese.
Waterhouse, Carlton, “Avoiding Another Step in a Series of Unfortunate Legal Events: A Consideration of Black Life under American Law from 1619 to 1972 and a Challenge to Prevailing Notions of Legally Based Reparations,” Boston College Third World Law Journal, 26 (Spring 2006), 207–65.
Wexler, Natalie, “In the Beginning: The First Three Chief Justices,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 154 (June 2006), 1373–1419.
White, G. Edward, “The Internal Powers of the Chief Justice: The Nineteenth-Century Legacy,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 154 (June 2006), 1463–1510.
Harrigan, James R., “The Legal Context for Revolution: Common, Constitutional, and Natural Law in the American Colonies, 1760–1776” (Claremont Graduate University, 2006). Order No. DA3192282.
Sears, Clare, “‘A dress not belonging to his or her sex’: Cross-Dressing Law in San Francisco, 1860–1900” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005). Order No. DA3191902.
Anastaplo, George, Reflections on Constitutional Law. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. xiv, 269 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2396-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8131-9156-0.)
Bezanson, Randall P., How Free Can Religion Be? (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii, 286 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-252-03112-0.)
Birdnow, Brian E., Communism, Anti-Communism, and the Federal Courts in Missouri, 1952–1958: The Trial of the St. Louis Five. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2005. iv, 227 pp. $109.95, isbn 0-7734-6101-9.)
Fiss, Owen M., History of the Supreme Court of the United States, vol. 8: Troubled Beginnings of the Modern State, 1888–1910. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx, 426 pp. $80.00, isbn 978-0-521-86027-7.)
Gibson, E. Kay, Brutality on Trial: “Hellfire” Pedersen, “Fighting” Hansen, and the Seamen’s Act of 1915. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xx, 225 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8130-2991-0.)
Kahn, Ronald, and Ken I. Kersch, eds., The Supreme Court and American Political Development. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 494 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 0-7006-1438-9. Paper, $19.95, isbn 0-7006-1439-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Killenbeck, Mark R., M’Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. xii, 227 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 0-7006-1472-9. Paper, $16.95, isbn 0-7006-1473-7.)
Levy, Richard E., The Power to Legislate: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. (Westport: Praeger, 2006. xvi, 220 pp. $124.95, isbn 0-313-32284-8.)
Millman, Chad, The Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for Justice. (New York: Little, Brown, 2006. xviii, 330 pp. $24.99, isbn 978-0-316-73496-7.)
Ritter, Gretchen, The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in the American Constitutional Order. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xiv, 381 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8047-5378-4. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-8047-5438-5.)
Staab, James B., The Political Thought of Justice Antonin Scalia: A Hamiltonian on the Supreme Court. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. xxxvi, 369 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7425-4310-2. Paper, $34.95, isbn 978-0-7425-4311-9.)
Stein, Harry H., Gus J. Solomon: Liberal Politics, Jews, and the Federal Courts. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 2006. xii, 282 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-87595-298-7.)
Bowen, William H., The Boy from Altheimer: From the Depression to the Boardroom. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006. xiv, 202 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-55728-818-9.)
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