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Legal and Constitutional

 

Adams, Carl, “Lincoln’s First Freed Slave: A Review of Bailey v. Cromwell, 1841,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 235–59.

Bloom, Murray A., “The Cargo Preference Act of 1954 and Related Legislation,” Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce, 39 (July 2008), 289–314.

Boone, M. Scott, “The Past, Present, and Future of Computing and Its Impact on Digital Rights Management,” Michigan State Law Review (Spring 2008), 413–34.

Bray, Chris, “‘Every Right to Be Where She Was’: The Legal Reconstruction of Black Self-Defense in Jim Crow Florida,” Florida Historical Quarterly, 87 (Winter 2009), 352–78.

Butterfield, Kevin, “A Common Law of Membership: Expulsion, Regulation, and Civil Society in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133 (July 2009), 255–75.

Chapple, Simon, “Writing Law into ‘New Western History’: Law and Order in Wyoming and New Mexico,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (Dec. 2008), 44–65.

Churchill, David S., “The Queer Histories of a Crime: Representations and Narratives of Leopold and Loeb,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18 (May 2009), 287–324.

Ezra, David Alan, “Doe v. Kamehameha Schools: A ‘Discrete and Insular Minority’ in Hawaii Seventy Years after Carolene Products?,” University of Hawai‘i Law Review, 30 (Summer 2008), 295–318.

Foley, William E., “Murder on the Santa Fe Trail: The United States v. See See Sah Mah and Escotah,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 90–105.

Gajda, Amy, “What If Samuel D. Warren Hadn’t Married a Senator’s Daughter? Uncovering the Press Coverage That Led to ‘the Right to Privacy,’” Michigan State Law Review (Spring 2008), 35–60.

Joo, Thomas W., “Yick Wo Re-revisited: Nonblack Nonwhites and Fourteenth Amendment History,” University of Illinois Law Review (Fall 2008), 1427–40.

Lacey, Nicola, “Explaining the Enduring Resonance of the Hart-Fuller Debate,” New York University Law Review, 83 (Oct. 2008), 1059–87.

MacDonald, Jason A., “Lawmakers’ Preferences for Bureaucratic Discretion: The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” Congress & the Presidency, 36 (May–Aug. 2009), 164–80.

Marcus, Maeva, “John Marshall Was Not the First Chief Justice,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 153 (March 2009), 48–55.

Marshall, Bridget M., and Brian W. Ogilvie, “‘There Shall Be a Wonder in Hadley!’: Mary Webster’s ‘Hideous Witchcraft,’” in Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, ed. Marla R. Miller, 135–53. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2009. xii, 371 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-55849-700-9.)

O’Melinn, Liam Seamus, “What If James Madison Were to Assess the Intellectual Property Revolution?,” Michigan State Law Review (Spring 2008), 401–12.

Oman, Nathan B., “‘The Living Oracles’: Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 42 (Summer 2009), 1–19.

Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz, “The Trials and Tribulations of Two Historians: Adjudicating Responsibility for Pollution and Personal Harm,” Medical History (London), 53 (April 2009), 271–92.

Stowell, Daniel, “Murder at a Methodist Camp Meeting: The Origins of Abraham Lincoln’s Most Famous Trial,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 219–34.

Swanson, Kara W., “The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner,” Technology and Culture, 50 (July 2009), 519–48.

Tiro, Karim M., “Claims Arising: The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and the Indian Claims Commission, 1951–1980,” American Indian Law Review, 32 (no. 2, 2007–2008), 509–54.

Valdes, Francisco, “Procedure, Policy, and Power: Class Actions and Social Justice in Historical and Comparative Perspective,” Georgia State University Law Review, 24 (Spring 2008), 627–62.

Vitale, Gary, “Abraham Lincoln and the Mormons: Another Legacy of Limited Freedom,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 101 (Fall–Winter 2008), 260–71.

Wilde, Sally, “Truth, Trust, and Confidence in Surgery, 1890–1910: Patient Autonomy, Communication, and Consent,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 83 (Summer 2009), 302–30.

Zipursky, Benjamin C., “The Hart-Fuller Debate at Fifty,” New York University Law Review, 83 (Oct. 2008), 1170–212.

 

Campbell, Lyndsay Mills, “Truths and Consequences: The Legal and Extralegal Regulation of Expression in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1820–1840” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3331578.

Francis, Megan Ming, “Crime and Citizenship: The naacp’s Campaign to End Racial Violence, 1909–1923” (Princeton University, 2008). Order No. DA3333848.

Ramos, Lisa Y., “A Class Apart: Mexican Americans, Race, and Civil Rights in Texas” (Columbia University, 2008). Order No. DA3333429.

Tate, Harold Simmons, Jr., “South Carolina’s Reception of English Law” (University of South Carolina, 2008). Order No. DA3332225.

Turner, Stephanie B., “A Review of Court Cases Involving Academic Suspensions, Probations, and Expulsions” (University of Alabama, 2008). Order No. DA3334658.

 

Anastaplo, George, Reflections on Life, Death, and the Constitution. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009. xii, 299 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2533-6. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8131-9230-7.)

Colucci, Frank J., Justice Kennedy’s Jurisprudence: The Full and Necessary Meaning of Liberty. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xii, 243 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1662-6.)

Crouch, Jeffrey, The Presidential Pardon Power. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. viii, 208 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1646-6.)

Friedman, Lawrence M., Dead Hands: A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. x, 230 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8047-6036-2. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8047-6209-0.)

Guzik, Keith, Arresting Abuse: Mandatory Legal Interventions, Power, and Intimate Abusers. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009. x, 238 pp. $34.00, isbn 978-0-87580-403-3.)

Marre, Diana, and Laura Briggs, eds., International Adoption: Global Inequalities and the Circulation of Children. (New York: New York University Press, 2009. viii, 312 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9101-1. Paper, $24.00, isbn 978-0-8147-9102-8.)

Neal, Bill, Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009. xvi, 280 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-89672-662-8.)

Raustiala, Kal, Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xii, 313 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-19-530459-6.)

Wolff, David A., Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman. (Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2009. x, 206 pp. Paper, $12.95, isbn 978-0-9798940-5-3.)

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