Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Arend, Anthony Clark, “Who’s Afraid of the Geneva Conventions? Treaty Interpretation in the Wake of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,” American University International Law Review, 22 (no. 5, 2007), 709–43.
Batlan, Felice, “Law and the Fabric of the Everyday: The Settlement Houses, Sociological Jurisprudence, and the Gendering of Urban Legal Culture,” Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, 15 (Spring 2006), 235–84.
Clark, David S., “The Modern Development of American Comparative Law: 1904–1945,” American Journal of Comparative Law, 55 (Fall 2007), 587–615.
Feld, Barry C., “A Century of Juvenile Justice: A Work in Progress or a Revolution That Failed?,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 2, 2007), 189–256.
Feldstein, Mark, “Media Coverage and a Federal Grand Jury: Publication of the Secret Watergate Transcripts, 1973,” American Journalism, 24 (Spring 2007), 7–33.
Fisher, Louis, “The State Secrets Privilege: Relying on Reynolds,” Political Science Quarterly, 122 (Fall 2007), 385–408.
Gindele, Kelly, “The Birthright of Citizenship as to Children Born of Illegal Immigrants in the United States: What Did the Drafters of the Fourteenth Amendment Intend?,” Northern Kentucky Law Review, 34 (no. 2, 2007), 367–88.
Gold, David M., “Eminent Domain and Economic Development: The Mill Acts and the Origins of Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, 21 (Summer 2007), 101–22.
Gross, Ariela, “‘Of Portugese Origin’: Litigating Identity and Citizenship among the ‘Little Races’ in Nineteenth-Century America,” Law & History Review, 25 (Fall 2007), 467–512.
Khoshbin, Laura Stephens, and Shahram Khoshbin, “Imaging the Mind, Minding the Image: An Historical Introduction to Brain Imaging and the Law,” American Journal of Law and Medicine, 33 (nos. 2–3, 2007), 171–92.
Maggs, Gregory E., “A Concise Guide to the Federalist Papers as a Source of the Original Meaning of the United States Constitution,” Boston University Law Review, 87 (Oct. 2007), 801–42.
Moen, Ole O., “Turn-of-the Century Judicial Activism: The Rehnquist Court as Political Agent,” in America in the Course of Human Events: Presentations and Interpretations, ed. Josef Jarab, Marcel Arbeit, and Jenel Virden, 103–16. (Amsterdam: vu University Press, 2006. 306 pp. Paper, €39.50, isbn 90-5383-9925.)
O’Connell, Jeffrey, and Thomas E. O’Connell, “The Powerful but Vulnerable Aide in the Rise and Fall of Woodrow Wilson and His League of Nations,” Florida Journal of International Law, 19 (April 2007), 289–309.
Oliver, Ranko Shiraki, “In the Twelve Years of nafta, the Treaty Gave to Me . . . What, Exactly? An Assessment of Economic, Social, and Political Developments in Mexico since 1994 and Their Impact on Mexican Immigration into the United States,” Harvard Latino Law Review, 10 (Spring 2007), 53–133.
Parkin, Christopher, “A Comparative Analysis of the Tension Created by Disability Access and Historic Preservation Laws in the United States and England,” Connecticut Journal of International Law, 22 (Fall 2007), 379–417.
Posner, Mark A., “Time Is Still on Its Side: Why Congressional Reauthorization of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Represents a Congruent and Proportional Response to Our Nation’s History of Discrimination in Voting,” New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, 10 (no. 1, 2006–2007), 51–131.
Reich, Peter L., “Siete Partidas in My Saddlebags: The Transmission of Hispanic Law from Antebellum Louisiana to Texas and California,” Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 22 (2007), 79–88.
Schreck, Kimberly A., “The Patriarch, His ‘Wives,’ ‘His Slaves,’ and His ‘Children’: Contested Wills in the Case of Keen v. Keen,” Missouri Historical Review, 102 (Oct. 2007), 25–41.
Seidemann, Ryan M., “Behind the Rules: The Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and Scientific Study,” Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 13 (Summer 2007), 193–217.
Sohoni, Deenesh, “Unsuitable Suitors: Anti-miscegenation Laws, Naturalization Laws, and the Construction of Asian Identities,” Law & Society Review, 41 (Sept. 2007), 587–615.
Staudt, Nancy C., René Lindstädt, and Jason O’Connor, “Judicial Decisions as Legislation: Congressional Oversight of Supreme Court Tax Cases, 1954–2005,” New York University Law Review, 82 (Nov. 2007), 1340–1401.
Teachout, Peter R., “‘Trustees and Servants’: Government Accountability in Early Vermont,” Vermont Law Review, 31 (Summer 2007), 857–907.
Tovino, Stacey A., “Imaging Body Structure and Mapping Brain Function: An Historical Approach,” American Journal of Law and Medicine, 33 (nos. 2–3, 2007), 193–228.
Tucker, James Thomas, “Enfranchising Language Minority Citizens: The Bilingual Election Provisions of the Voting Rights Act,” New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, 10 (no. 1, 2006–2007), 195–260.
Vance, Laurence M., “The Kelo Decision and the Fourteenth Amendment,” Journal of Libertarian Studies, 21 (Summer 2007), 69–99.
Volz, Gregory L., David E. Robbins, and Vanessa E. Volz, “Poverty in the Aftermath of Katrina: Reimagining Citizen Leadership in the Context of Federalism,” Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, 2 (Spring 2006), 487–521.
Grilliot, Jeffrey M., “Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger: A Case Study” (Bowling Green State University, 2007). Order No. DA3249943.
Knowles, Helen J., “A Dialogue on Liberty: The Classical Liberal and Civic Educational Principles of Justice Kennedy’s Vision of Judicial Power” (Boston University, 2007). Order No. DA3246612.
Koll, Adi J., “‘Parents act in the best interests of their children’: An Inquiry into the Development of the Supreme Court Parental Presumption” (Columbia University, 2007). Order No. DA3249100.
McCarthy, Kevin D., “Fit Custodians: Gender, Race, and the Law in Lower-South Trial Courts, 1830–1925” (University of Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3246026.
Overland, Sean Gordon, “Re-thinking American Justice: Jury Selection, Deliberations, and Verdicts” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3240894.
Pitts, Yvonne M., “Imposing Their Wills: Inheritance Practices, Family, and Capacity in Nineteenth Century Kentucky” (University of Iowa, 2006). Order No. DA3248047.
Rolston, Arthur Louis, “Constituting Capitalism: Constitutional Revision in Kentucky and Ohio from the Jacksonian Age to the Progressive Era” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3247457.
Wabshall-Hudzinski, Shannon, “State Supreme Courts and the Transmission of Precedent: A Study of Judicial Prestige, 1980–2000” (University of Mississippi, 2005). Order No. DA3246054.
Wheelock, Darren Lee, “A Jury of ‘Peers’: Felon Jury Exclusion, Racial Threat, and Racial Inequality in United States Criminal Courts” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3240492.
Rosenblatt, Albert M., ed., The Judges of the New York Court of Appeals: A Biographical History. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007. xcvi, 1046 pp. $150.00, isbn 978-0-8232-2763-1.)
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