Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Aiyetoro, Adjoa Artis, “Truth Matters: A Call for the American Bar Association to Acknowledge Its Past and Make Reparations to African Descendants,” George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal, 18 (Fall 2007), 51–105.
Alexander, James R., “Roth at Fifty: Reconsidering the Common Law Antecedents of American Obscenity Doctrine,” John Marshall Law Review, 41 (Winter 2008), 393–434.
Berg, Laura, “Let Them Do As They Have Promised,” University of California, Hastings College of Law West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, 14 (Winter 2008), 311–29.
Bhagwat, Ashutosh, “Cooper v. Aaron and the Faces of Federalism,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1087–1115.
Blumenthal, Susanna L., “The Mind of a Moral Agent: Scottish Common Sense and the Problem of Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century American Law,” Law & History Review, 26 (Spring 2008), 99–160.
Blumrosen, Alfred W., “The Profound Influence in America of Lord Mansfield’s Decision in Somerset v. Stuart,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 645–57.
Bobb-Semple, Colin, “English Common Law, Slavery, and Human Rights,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 659–84.
Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Jeongdanghan Beopjeolcha, Sujeongjohang 5 Jo, Grigo Deaseoyang Saegaeeui Beopyeul Munwha” (Due process, the Fifth Amendment, and the legal culture of the Atlantic world), Saegae Hunbeop Yeogu/World Constitutional Law Review, 14 (July 2008), 283–314. In Korean.
Cho, Ji-Hyung, “Siljiljeok Jeongdanghan Beopjeolcha, Lochner Pallae ya ‘Ban-Gaehyuck’ Jeongchi” (Substantive due process, the Lochner case, and the politics of ‘anti-reform’), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 27 (May 2008), 37–77. In Korean.
Clark, Randall Baldwin, “Bleedings, Purges, and Vomits: Dr. Benjamin Rush’s Republican Medicine, the Bilious Remitting Yellow-Fever Epidemic of 1793, and the Non-Origin of the Law of Informed Consent,” Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy, 24 (Spring 2008), 209–50.
Cramer, Clayton E., and Joseph Edward Olson, “Pistols, Crime, and Public Safety in Early America,” Willamette Law Review, 44 (Summer 2008), 699–722.
Daniels, Brigham, “Revitalizing Zion: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and Today’s Urban Sprawl,” Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, 28 (no. 2, 2008), 257–300.
Dorsey, Dana Thompson, “An Examination of the Legal Debate Regarding Race-Based Education Policies from 1849 to 1964,” Negro Educational Review, 59 (Spring–Summer 2008), 7–26.
Entin, Jonathan L., “Parents Involved and the Meaning of Brown: An Old Debate Renewed,” Seattle University Law Review, 31 (Summer 2008), 923–36.
Gillers, Stephen, “A Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt: The Transformation of American Obscenity Law from Hicklin to Ulysses II,” Washington University Law Review, 85 (no. 2, 2007), 215–96.
Goldstein, Joel K., “Assuming Responsibility: Thomas F. Eagleton, the Senate, and the Bombing of Cambodia,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Fall 2007), 151–85.
Gorczyca, Robert, “Sound and Fury: The Sedition Trial of Communist Steve Nelson,” Western Pennsylvania History, 91 (Summer 2008), 44–55. Heavily illustrated.
Hansen, Zeynep K., and Marc T. Law, “The Political Economy of Truth-in-Advertising Regulation during the Progressive Era,” Journal of Law & Economics, 51 (May 2008), 251–70.
Harris, Cheryl I., “‘Too Pure an Air’: Somerset’s Legacy from Anti-Slavery to Colorblindness,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 439–58.
Hart, John F., “Human Law, Higher Law, and Property Rights: Judicial Review in the Federal Courts, 1789–1835,” San Diego Law Review, 45 (Aug.–Sept. 2008), 823–62.
Hendrick, Veronica, “Codifying Humanity: The Legal Line between Slave and Servant,” Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 13 (no. 2, 2007), 685–97.
Herman, Shael, “The Louisiana Code of Practice (1825): A Civilian Essai among Anglo-American Sources,” Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, 23 (2008), 51–88.
Jaffa, Harry V., “Dred Scott Revisited,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Winter 2008), 197–217.
Klein, Diane J., “Naming and Framing the ‘Subject’ of Antebellum Slave Contracts: Introducing Julia, ‘a Certain Negro Slave,’ ‘a Man,’ Joseph, Eliza, and Albert,” Rutgers Race & the Law Review, 9 (no. 2, 2008), 243–84.
Lash, Kurt T., “The Original Meaning of an Omission: The Tenth Amendment, Popular Sovereignty, and ‘Expressly’ Delegated Power,” Notre Dame Law Review, 83 (July 2008), 1889–1957.
Lilley, Stephen, “The Hard Work of ‘Hard Work’: The Legal Elite’s Rhetoric of Diligence and the Professionalization of the Law, 1850–1920,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 145–75.
Maltz, Earl M., “Roe v. Wade and Dred Scott,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 55–71.
Mensel, Robert E., “Originalism and Ancestor Worship in the Post-Heroic Era: The Dred Scott Opinions,” Widener Law Journal, 17 (no. 1, 2007), 29–54.
Mickey, Robert W., “The Beginning of the End for Authoritarian Rule in America: Smith v. Allwright and the Abolition of the White Primary in the Deep South, 1944–1948,” Studies in American Political Development, 22 (Sept. 2008), 143–82.
Muñoz, Vincent Phillip, “The Original Meaning of the Free Exercise Clause: The Evidence from the First Congress,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Summer 2008), 1083–1120.
Natelson, Robert G., “Paper Money and the Original Understanding of the Coinage Clause,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 31 (Summer 2008), 1017–82.
Powell, John P., and Stephen Menendian, “Little Rock and the Legacy of Dred Scott,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1153–90.
Purcell, Edward A., Jr., “The Class Action Fairness Act in Perspective: The Old and the New in Federal Jurisdictional Reform,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 156 (June 2008), 1823–1928.
Quester, Amanda, “Evolution before Revolution: Dynamism in Connecticut Landlord-Tenant Law Prior to the Late 1960s,” American Journal of Legal History, 48 (Oct. 2006), 408–52.
Quitt, Martin H., “Congressional (Partisan) Constitutionalism: The Apportionment Act Debates of 1842 and 1844,” Journal of the Early Republic, 28 (Winter 2008), 627–51.
Rao, Gautham, “The Federal Posse Comitatus Doctrine: Slavery, Compulsion, and Statecraft in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America,” Law & History Review, 26 (Spring 2008), 1–56.
Ronner, Amy D., “The Crucible, Harvard’s Secret Court, and Homophobic Witch Hunts,” Brooklyn Law Review, 73 (Fall 2007), 217–98.
Roosevelt, Kermit, III, “Judicial Supremacy, Judicial Activism: Cooper v. Aaron and Parents Involved,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1191–1210.
Schmeiser, Susan R., “The Ungovernable Citizen: Psychopathy, Sexuality, and the Rise of Medico-Legal Reasoning,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 20 (Summer 2008), 163–240.
Schweigert, Benedict J., “‘Now For a Clean Sweep!’: Smiley v. Holm, Partisan Gerrymandering, and At-Large Congressional Elections,” Michigan Law Review, 107 (Oct. 2008), 133–88.
Scott, Rebecca J., “Public Rights, Social Equality, and the Conceptual Roots of the Plessy Challenge,” Michigan Law Review, 106 (March 2008), 777–804.
Strauss, David A., “Little Rock and the Legacy of Brown,” Saint Louis University Law Journal, 52 (Summer 2008), 1065–86.
Terry, James P., “The Vietnam War in Perspective: Lessons Learned in the Law of Wars as Applied in Subsequent Conflict,” Naval Law Review, 54 (2007), 79–103.
Ziegler, Mary, “Reinventing Eugenics: Reproductive Choice and Law Reform After World War II,” Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, 14 (Spring 2008), 319–50.
Coleman, Ellen, “Amicus Curiae Briefs and Their Effect on United States Supreme Court Decisions Involving Rape Convictions from 1950–1999” (Claremont Graduate University, 2008). Order No. DA3296075.
Frederick, Douglas John, “Clash of the Titans: Taking a Long, Hard, Second Look at Conflicts between Copyright and the First Amendment” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3301705.
Gonzalez Graf, Hector, “Regional Collective Bargaining in North America: An Alternative for Balancing Trade and Labor Prerogatives” (Tulane University, 2008). Order No. DA3302022.
Morrisroe, Darby A., “First Lawyer: The Institutionalization of the Office of White House Counsel, 1943–1989” (University of Virginia, 2007). Order No. DA3300253.
Sauté, Robert, “For the Poor and Disenfranchised: An Institutional and Historical Analysis of Amerian Public Interest Law, 1876 to 1990” (City University of New York, 2008). Order No. DA3296951.
Toromanovic, Amna, “Ustav sad: Nastanak, karakter, i historijski znacaj” (The U.S. Constitution: Its origin, character, and historical significance) (University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2008). In Bosnian.
Behrnd-Klodt, Menzi L., Navigating Legal Issues in Archives. (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2008. viii, 329 pp. Paper, $69.95, isbn 1-931666-28-8.)
Corwin, Edward S., The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2008. xiv, 92 pp. Paper, $10.00, isbn 978-0-86597-695-5.) Originally published in 1928.
Duncan, Joyce, Shapers of the Great Debate on Women’s Rights: A Biographical Dictionary. (Westport: Greenwood, 2008. xx, 232 pp. $75.00, isbn 978-0-313-33869-4.)
Fisher, Louis, The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xvi, 394 pp. Cloth, $45.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1600-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1601-5.)
Forde, Kathy Roberts, Literary Journalism on Trial: Masson v. New Yorker
Goldman, Robert M., One Man Out: Curt Flood versus Baseball. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. xviii, 158 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1602-2. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1603-9.)
Hamburger, Philip, Law and Judicial Duty. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. xviii, 686 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-674-03131-9.)
Hogge, Jeffery A., Norton Parker Chipman: A Biography of the Andersonville War Crimes Prosecutor. (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2008. viii, 241 pp. Paper, $39.95, isbn 978-0-7864-3449-7.)
Mayhew, David R., Parties and Policies: How the American Government Works. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. vi, 401 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-300-13762-0.)
Neal, Bill, From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2008. xx, 364 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-637-6.)
Hanyok, Robert J., and David P. Mowry, West Wind Clear: Cryptology and the Winds Message Controversy; A Documentary History. (Fort George G. Meade: National Security Agency, 2008. xxii, 327 pp. Paper.)
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