Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Anderson, David A., “Freedom of the Press in Wartime,” University of Colorado Law Review, 77 (no. 1, 2006), 49–99.
Brenner, Susan W., “The Fourth Amendment in an Era of Ubiquitous Technology,” Mississippi Law Journal, 75 (Fall 2005), 1–84.
Bridgewater, Pamela D., “Ain’t I a Slave: Slavery, Reproductive Abuse, and Reparations,” UCLA Women’s Law Journal, 14 (Fall–Winter 2005), 89–161.
Brinkley, Alan, et al., “ahr Forum: The Debate over the Constitutional Revolution of 1937,” American Historical Review, 110 (Oct. 2005), 1046–1115.
Bunji, Sawanobori, “Brown v. Board of Education: Its Continuing Significance,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 26 (2004), 27–41.
Calabresi, Steven G., and Stephanie Dotson Zimdahl, “The Supreme Court and Foreign Sources of Law: Two Hundred Years of Practice and the Juvenile Death Penalty Decision,” William and Mary Law Review, 47 (Dec. 2005), 743–909.
Cloud, Morgan, “A Liberal House Divided: How the Warren Court Dismantled the Fourth Amendment,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 3 (Fall 2005), 33–73.
Collins, Michael G., “The Federal Courts, the First Congress, and the Non-Settlement of 1789,” Virginia Law Review, 91 (Nov. 2005), 1515–78.
Cooper, Dale, “The Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 and Synthetic Drugs: Relieving Scarcity, Controlling Prices, and Establishing Pre-Marketing Licensing Controls,” Pharmacy in History, 47 (no. 2, 2005), 47–61.
Czarnezki, Jason J., “Revisiting the Tense Relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court, Administrative Procedure, and the National Environmental Policy Act,” Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 25 (no. 1, 2006), 3–28.
Danow, Harris, “History Turned ‘Sideways’: Granholm v. Heald and the Twenty-first Amendment,” Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 23 (no. 3, 2006), 761–78.
Dasgupta, Anisha S., “Public Finance and the Fortunes of the Early American Lottery,” QLR, 24 (no. 2, 2006), 227–64.
DeBrincat, Dominic, “Discolored Justice: Blacks in New London County Courts, 1710–1750,” Connecticut History, 44 (Fall 2005), 183–204.
Dennis, Matthew, “Sorcery and Sovereignty: Senecas, Citizens, and the Contest for Power and Authority on the Frontiers of the Early American Republic,” in New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, ed. John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, 179–99. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 362 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3895-8.)
Einhorn, Robin L., “Institutional Reality in the Age of Slavery: Taxation and Democracy in the States,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 21–43.
Engerman, Stanley L., and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (Dec. 2005), 891–921.
Frase, Richard S., “The Warren Court’s Missed Opportunities in Substantive Criminal Law,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 3 (Fall 2005), 75–102.
Fritz, Henry E., “Allotment of Mineral and Timber Lands on Indian Reservations and the Public Domain,” Historian, 67 (Winter 2005), 645–63.
Garland, David, “Penal Excess and Surplus Meaning: Public Torture Lynchings in Twentieth-Century America,” Law & Society Review, 39 (no. 4, 2005), 793–830.
Gordon, Jennifer, “Law, Lawyers, and Labor: The United Farm Workers’ Legal Strategy in the 1960s and 1970s and the Role of Law in Union Organizing Today,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, 8 (Fall 2005), 1–72.
Hirsch, Alan, “Threats, Promises, and False Confessions: Lessons of Slavery,” Howard Law Journal, 49 (Fall 2005), 31–60.
Hoeflich, M. H., “Comparative Law in Antebellum America,” Washington University Global Studies Law Review, 4 (no. 3, 2005), 535–45.
Horton, Scott, “Through a Mirror, Darkly: Applying the Geneva Conventions to ‘A New Kind of Warfare,’” in The Torture Debate in America, ed. Karen J. Greenberg, 136–50. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 0-521-85792-9. Paper, $18.99, isbn 0-521-67461-1.)
John, Richard R., “Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 1–20.
Kalman, Laura, “The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal,” American Historical Review, 110 (Oct. 2005), 1052–80.
Kamisar, Yale, “How Earl Warren’s Twenty-Two Years in Law Enforcement Affected His Work as Chief Justice,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 3 (Fall 2005), 11–31.
Kilpinen, Jon T., “The Supreme Court’s Role in Choctaw and Chickasaw Dispossession,” Geographical Review, 94 (Oct. 2005), 484–501.
Lamoreaux, Naomi R., “Did Insecure Property Rights Slow Economic Development? Some Lessons from Economic History,” Journal of Policy History, 18 (no. 1, 2006), 146–64.
Masaki, Kawashima, “A Progress Report of a Five-Year Personal Project to Revisit the Civil Rights Movement: A Brief Essay Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and the Fortieth Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 26 (2004), 11–26. Heavily illustrated.
Meares, Tracey L., “Everything Old Is New Again: Fundamental Fairness and the Legitimacy of Criminal Justice,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 3 (Fall 2005), 105–23.
Mizutani, Kenichi, “Beikoku renpo iminho ni okeru ‘kikafuno gaikokujin’ no imi” (The meaning of “unnaturalizable aliens” according to U.S. federal immigration law), Amerikashi Hyoron (Kyoto), 22 (2004), 1–18. In Japanese.
Nichols, Joel A., “Religious Liberty in the Thirteenth Colony: Church-State Relations in Colonial and Early National Georgia,” New York University Law Review, 80 (Dec. 2005), 1693–1772.
Oba, Gary G., “The Power of Ideas: Reflections on the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the American Experience,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 26 (2004), 3–10.
Oney, Steve, “And the Dead Shall Rise: An Overview,” Southern Cultures, 11 (Winter 2005), 28–46.
Otsuru, Chieko Kitagawa, “America no minsyusyugi to shiminteki jiyu” (American democracy challenged by civil liberty infringements), Hogaku Ronsyu (Osaka), 54 (no. 3, 2004), 447–73. In Japanese.
Ramold, Steven J., “‘Altogether a Horrible Spectacle’: Public Executions in Nebraska, 1891,” Nebraska History, 86 (Summer–Fall 2005), 62–77. Heavily illustrated.
Ramsey, Carolyn B., “Intimate Homicide: Gender and Crime Control, 1880–1920,” University of Colorado Law Review, 77 (no. 1, 2006), 101–78.
Río Raigadas, David, “Mirando al Sur: En el centenario del nacimiento de Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)” (Looking south: On the centenary anniversary of the birth of Robert Penn Warren [1905–1989]), AEDEAN Nexus (Santiago de Compostela) (no. 2, 2005), 83–91. In Spanish.
Sagredo Santos, Antonia, “‘Nueve ancianos’ anulan la legislación del New Deal: El Tribunal Supremo Estadounidense y la Ley Agraria” (‘Nine old men’ invalidate New Deal legislation: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Agricultural Adjustment Act), Revista Complutense de Historia de América (Madrid), 31 (2005), 193–213. In Spanish.
Siegel, Stephen A., “Justice Holmes, Buck v. Bell, and the History of Equal Protection,” Minnesota Law Review, 90 (Nov. 2005), 106–39.
Spitzzeri, Paul R., “On a Case-by-Case Basis: Ethnicity and Los Angeles Courts, 1850–1875,” California History, 83 (no. 2, 2005), 26–39.
Thomas, George C., III, “Through a Glass Darkly: Seeing the Real Warren Court Criminal Justice Legacy,” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 3 (Fall 2005), 1–10.
Tomlins, Christopher, “Law’s Wilderness: The Discourse of English Colonizing, the Violence of Intrusion, and the Failures of American History,” in New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas, ed. John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey, 21–46. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. vi, 362 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8122-3895-8.)
Treanor, William Michael, “Judicial Review before Marbury,” Stanford Law Review, 58 (Nov. 2005), 455–562.
Watson, Blake A., “John Marshall and Indian Land Rights: A Historical Rejoinder to the Claim of ‘Universal Recognition’ of the Doctrine of Discovery,” Seton Hall Law Review, 36 (no. 2, 2006), 481–549.
White, G. Edward, “Constitutional Change and the New Deal,” American Historical Review, 110 (Oct. 2005), 1094–1115.
Willett, Robert L., “Anton Karachun: The Story of a Turncoat,” Prologue, 37 (Winter 2005), 32–38. Heavily illustrated.
Wriggins, Jennifer B., “Torts, Race, and the Value of Injury, 1900–1949,” Howard Law Journal, 49 (Fall 2005), 99–138.
Gayton, Erin, “A Problem of Possession: Marriage and Property in American Literature, 1850–1900” (University of California, San Diego, 2005). Order No. DA3169318.
Grossman, Lewis Adam, “The Ideal and the Actual of James Coolidge Carter: Morality and Law in the Gilded Age” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3168900.
Mosnier, L. Joseph, “Crafting Law in the Second Reconstruction: Julius Chambers, the naacp Legal Defense Fund, and Title vii” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2005). Order No. DA3170509.
Agawa, Naoyuki, Kenpo de yomu America shi, vols. 1 and 2 (Reading American history through the constitution, vols. 1 and 2). (Tokyo: php, 2004. 338 pp. Cloth, ¥820, isbn 4569637752. 290 pp. Paper, ¥800, isbn 4569633617.) In Japanese.
Bradley, Craig, ed., The Rehnquist Legacy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii, 392 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 0-521-85919-0. Paper, $35.99, isbn 0-521-68366-1.)
Dippel, Horst, ed., Constitutional Documents of the United States of America, 1776–1860, vol. 1: Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century. (Munich: Saur, 2006. 369 pp. €149.00, isbn 3-598-35751-0.)
Eckert, Astrid M., Kampf um die Akten. Die Westalliierten und die Rückgabe von deutschem Archivgut nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Battle for the files: The western allies and the return of captured German archives after World War II). (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2004. 534 pp. €68.00, isbn 3-515-08554-8.) In German.
Etges, Andreas, and Ursula Lehmkuhl, eds., Atlantic Passages: Constitution—Immigration—Internationalization. (Muenster: lit, 2006. 184 pp. €29.90, isbn 3-8258-9344-8.)
Greenberg, Karen J., ed., The Torture Debate in America. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 414 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 0-521-85792-9. Paper, $18.99, isbn 0-521-67461-1.)
Kaminski, John P., et al., eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, vol. 21: Ratification of the Constitution by the States, New York, vol. 3. (Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 2005. xxxviii, 469 pp. $75.00, isbn 0-87020-367-3.)
Marbach, Joseph R., Ellis Katz, and Troy E. Smith, eds., Federalism in America: An Encyclopedia. (Westport: Greenwood, 2006. Vol. 1: xxii, 377 pp. Vol. 2: xxii, 381 pp. $225.00, /setisbn 0-313-32947-8./set.)
Pepe, Fernanda Mazzanti, ed., Culture costituzionali a confronto. Europa e Stati Uniti dall’età delle rivoluzioni all’età contemporanea (Comparing constitutional cultures. Europe and the United States from the age of revolutions to the contemporary age). (Genoa: Name, 2005. 451 pp. €38.00, isbn 8887298-95-5.) In Italian.
Rapaport, Diane, New England Court Records: A Research Guide for Genealogists and Historians. (Fitchburg, MA: Quill Pen, 2006. xvi, 470 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 1-933623-07-1.)
Rossum, Ralph A., Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006. x, 298 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-7006-1447-8.)
Waller, Spencer Weber, Thurman Arnold: A Biography. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. xii, 273 pp. $40.00, isbn 0-8147-9392-4.)
White, G. Edward, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. x, 161 pp. $17.95, isbn 0-19-530536-1.)
Wiecek, William M., History of the Supreme Court of the United States, vol. 12: The Birth of the Modern Constitution—The United States Supreme Court, 1941–1953. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xviii, 733 pp. $100.00, isbn 0-521-84820-2.)
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