Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Abrams, Robert Haskell, “Walking the Beach to the Core of Sovereignty: The Historic Basis for the Public Trust Doctrine Applied in Glass v. Goeckel,” University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, 40 (Summer 2007), 861–906.
Alexander, Roberta, “Dred Scott: The Decision That Sparked a Civil War,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 643–61.
Badger, Anthony, “The South Confronts the Court: The Southern Manifesto of 1956,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 126–42.
Balestra, Mike, “Thou Shall Not Hunt: A Historical Introduction to and Discussion of the Modern Debate over Sunday Hunting Laws,” Kentucky Law Journal, 96 (no. 3, 2007–2008), 447–63.
Berresford, John W., “The Grand Jury in the Hiss-Chambers Case,” American Communist History, 7 (June 2008), 1–38.
Bilder, Mary Sarah, “Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 6–25.
Brown, Richard D., “‘No Harm to Kill Indians’: Equal Rights in a Time of War,” New England Quarterly, 81 (March 2008), 34–62.
Carpenter, Daniel, and Gisela Sin, “Policy Tragedy and the Emergence of Regulation: The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 149–80.
Chemerinksy, Erwin, “Rediscovering Brandeis’s Right to Privacy,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 643–57.
Critchlow, Donald T., and Cynthia L. Stachecki, “The Equal Rights Amendment Reconsidered: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobilization in a Democracy,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 157–76.
Dryer, Trevor D., “‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’: The New York Times, ‘Yellow’ Journalism, and the Criminal Trial, 1898–1902,” Nevada Law Journal, 8 (Winter 2008), 541–69.
Dueholm, James A., “Lincoln’s Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus: An Historical and Constitutional Analysis,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 29 (Summer 2008), 47–66.
Easton, Eric B., “The Colonel’s Finest Campaign: Robert R. McCormick and Near v. Minnesota,” Federal Communications Law Journal, 60 (March 2008), 183–228.
Eck, Brian D., “Rebel without a Clause: The Right ‘Rights of Students’ in Nixon v. Board of Education and the Shadow of Freedom under Harper v. Poway,” Ave Maria Law Review, 6 (Fall 2007), 197–233.
Ferguson, Lindsay C., “Whistle Blowing Is Not Just for Gym Class: Looking into the Past, Present, and Future of Title IX,” Texas Tech Law Review, 39 (Fall 2006), 167–96.
Festa, Matthew J., “Applying a Usable Past: The Use of History in Law,” Seton Hall Law Review, 38 (no. 2, 2008), 479–553.
Goldstein, Leslie Friedman, “The Specter of the Second Amendment: Rereading Slaughterhouse and Cruikshank,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 131–48.
Graber, Mark, “‘No Better Than They Deserve’: Dred Scott and Constitutional Democracy,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 589–617.
Green, Steven K., “‘Bad History’: The Lure of History in Establishment Clause Adjudication,” Notre Dame Law Review, 81 (June 2006), 1717–54.
Greenberger, Marcia D., and Neena K. Chaudhry, “Worth Fighting For: Thirty-five Years of Title IX Advocacy in the Courts, Congress, and the Federal Agencies,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 491–501.
Gross, Ariela, “When Is the Time of Slavery? The History of Slavery in Contemporary Legal and Political Argument,” California Law Review, 96 (Feb. 2008), 283–321.
Gumina, Joseph, “From Austria to Sacco and Vanzetti: The Development of Frankfurter’s ‘Fundamental Rights’ Theory,” Western New England Law Review, 30 (no. 2, 2008), 389–417.
Kirby, Michael, “Sexuality and Global Forces: Dr. Alfred Kinsey and the Supreme Court of the United States,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 14 (Summer 2007), 485–508.
Kousser, J. Morgan, “The Strange, Ironic Career of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, 1965–2007,” Texas Law Review, 86 (March 2008), 667–775.
Levy, David W., “Brandeis, the Reformer,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 711–31.
von Lingen, Kerstin, “Conspiracy of Silence: How the ‘Old Boys’ of American Intelligence Shielded ss General Karl Wolff from Prosecution,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 22 (Spring 2008), 74–109.
Lyon, Thomas D., and Raymond LaMagna, “The History of Children’s Hearsay: From Old Bailey to Post-Davis,” Indiana Law Journal, 82 (Fall 2007), 1029–58.
Mehrotra, Ajay K., “Forging Fiscal Reform: Constitutional Change, Public Policy, and the Creation of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin, 1880–1920,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 94–112.
Merkel, William G., “Jefferson’s Failed Anti-slavery Proviso of 1784 and the Nascence of Free Soil Constitutionalism,” Seton Hall Law Review, 38 (no. 2, 2008), 555–603.
Power, Jeanne M., and Lirio Patton, “Between Mendez and Brown: Gonzales v. Sheely (1951) and the Legal Campaign against Segregation,” Law & Social Inquiry, 33 (Winter 2008), 127–71.
Pruitt, Paul M., Jr., “Plantation Progressive on the Federal Bench: Law, Politics, and the Life of Judge Henry D. Clayton,” Southern Studies, 14 (Fall–Winter 2007), 85–139.
Quigley, David, “Constitutional Revision and the City: The Enforcement Acts and Urban America, 1870–1894,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 64–75.
Reid, Charles J., Jr., “Judicial Precedent in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: A Commentary on Chancellor Kent’s Commentaries,” Ave Maria Law Review, 5 (no. 1, 2007), 47–111.
Rogers, Alan, “State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 143–56.
Sandler, Bernice Resnick, “Title IX: How We Got It and What a Difference It Made,” Cleveland State Law Review, 55 (no. 4, 2007), 473–89.
Scott, David W., “Religion in the Schools: Illinois Courts v. United States Supreme Court,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Winter 2007–2008), 328–59.
Sklansky, David Alan, “‘One Train May Hide Another’: Katz, Stonewall, and the Secret Subtext of Criminal Procedure,” U.C. Davis Law Review, 41 (Feb. 2008), 875–934.
Smith, Charles Anthony, “Credible Commitments and the Early American Supreme Court,” Law & Society Review, 42 (March 2008), 75–110.
Stearns, Maxwell L., “Standing at the Crossroads: The Roberts Court in Historical Perspective,” Notre Dame Law Review, 83 (May 2008), 875–958.
Strum, Philippa, “Brandeis: The Public Activist and Freedom of Speech,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 659–709.
Tanenhaus, David S., and William Bush, “Toward a History of Children as Witnesses,” Indiana Law Journal, 82 (Fall 2007), 1059–75.
Thompson, John A., “Woodrow Wilson and a World Governed by Evolving Law,” Journal of Policy History, 20 (no. 1, 2008), 113–25.
Urofsky, Melvin I., “Louis D. Brandeis: Teacher,” Brandeis Law Journal, 45 (Summer 2007), 733–53.
Vagts, Detlev F., “Military Commissions: The Forgotten Reconstruction Chapter,” American University International Law Review, 23 (no. 2, 2008), 231–74.
Valauri, John T., “Dred Scott, Lincoln, and the Constitution: A Reply to Professor Graber,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 4, 2007), 619–42.
Walston, Roderick E., “California Water Law: Historical Origins to the Present,” Whittier Law Review, 29 (Summer 2008), 765–826.
Washburn, Kevin K., “The Legacy of Bryan v. Itasca County: How an Erroneous $147 County Tax Notice Helped Bring Tribes $200 Billion in Indian Gaming Revenue,” Minnesota Law Review, 92 (April 2008), 919–70.
Weaver, Vesla M., “Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy,” Studies in American Political Development, 21 (Sept. 2007), 230–65.
Crowe, Justin, “Building the Judiciary: Law, Courts, and the Politics of Institutional Development” (Princeton University, 2007). Order No. DA3281298.
Czapracka, Katarzyna Anna, “Intellectual Property and the Limits of Antitrust: A Comparative Study of us and eu Approaches” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285062.
Henquinet, Jeffrey W., “Analysis and Evaluation of the Laurentian Great Lakes Fishery Management Legal Framework” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282115.
Johnson, Robert J., Jr., “Trial by Fire: Abraham Lincoln and the Law” (City University of New York, 2007). Order No. DA3283166.
McDermott, Stacy Pratt, “‘Gentlemen of the Jury’: The Status of Jurors and the Representation of the Jury in the Midwest, 1830–1860” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007). Order No. DA3290315.
O’Donnell, Seán Taht, “Courting Science, Binding Truth: A Social History of Frye v. United States” (Harvard University, 2007). Order No. DA3285520.
Pfister, Jude M., “Constitutional Development in the United States Supreme Court during the 1790s” (Drew University, 2007). Order No. DA3284516.
Shimsky, MaryJane, “‘Hesitating between Two Worlds’: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Robert H. Jackson” (University of New York, Albany, 2007). Order No. DA3283210.
Temkin, Moshik, “The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: American Justice on Trial, 1926–1977” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3285187.
Wilson, Rai Imani, “Foundations of Sand: Federalism, Formalism, and the Matter of Money in the African American Legal Experience, Florida, 1900–1950” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3289595.
Andrain, Charles F., Political Justice and Religious Values. (New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv, 233 pp. Cloth, $115.00, isbn 978-0-415-98964-0. xiv, 233 pp. Paper, $32.95, isbn 978-0-415-98965-7.)
Bodenhamer, David J., and James W. Ely Jr., eds., The Bill of Rights in Modern America. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv, 322 pp. Cloth, $55.00, isbn 978-0-253-35159-3. Paper, $21.95, isbn 978-0-253-21991-6.) Revised and expanded. Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Irons, Peter, God on Trial: Landmark Cases from America’s Religious Battlefields. (New York: Penguin, 2007. xx, 362 pp. Cloth, $26.95, isbn 978-0-670-03851-0. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-14-311375-1.)
Kerr, Robert L., The Corporate Free-Speech Movement: Cognitive Feudalism and the Endangered Marketplace of Ideas. (New York: lfb, 2008. x, 275 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-1-59332-293-9.)
Matsumoto, Yuko, Tsukurareru Amerika Kokumin to “Tasha”: “Amerikaka” Jidai no Shitizunshippu (The created American nation and the “other”: Citizenship in the era of “Americanization”). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2007. 328 pp. ¥5,880, isbn 978-4-13-026132-6.) In Japanese.
Paxton, Mark, Censorship. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xiv, 154 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33751-2.)
Shortell, Christopher, Rights, Remedies, and the Impact of State Sovereign Immunity. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. xii, 216 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-7914-7507-2.)
Wolf, Michael Allan, The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xvi, 188 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1620-6. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1621-3.)
Tushnet, Mark, ed., I Dissent: Great Opposing Opinions in Landmark Supreme Court Cases. (Boston: Beacon, 2008. xxvi, 229 pp. Paper, $16.00, isbn 978-0-8070-0036-6.)
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