Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Boyd, Steven, and David Smith, “Thomas Hickey, the Rebel, and Civil Liberties in Wartime Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, 45 (no 1, 2007), 41–51.
Briggs, Robert H., “The Mountain Meadows Massacre: An Analytical Narrative Based on Participant Confessions,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 74 (Fall 2006), 313–33.
Capers, I. Bennett, “The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass,” New York University Review of Law and Social Change, 31 (no. 1, 2006), 1–49.
Chin, Gabriel J., “Still on the Books: Jim Crow and Segregation Laws Fifty Years after Brown v. Board of Education,” Michigan State Law Review (Summer 2006), 457–75.
Cochran, Donald Q., “Ghosts of Alabama: The Prosecution of Bobby Frank Cherry for the Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church,” Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 12 (Fall 2006), 1–31.
Currie, David P., “The Civil War Congress,” University of Chicago Law Review, 73 (Fall 2006), 1131–1225.
Dudziak, Mary L., “Working toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall and the Constitution of Kenya,” Duke Law Journal, 56 (Dec. 2006), 721–80.
Farber, Daniel A., “‘Much Older than the Constitution’: Lincoln’s Theory of Nationhood,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Jan. 2007), 14–17. Heavily illustrated.
Fox, James W., Jr., “Intimations of Citizenship: Repressions and Expressions of Equal Citizenship in the Era of Jim Crow,” Howard Law Journal, 50 (Fall 2006), 113–201.
Godsil, Rachel D., “Race Nuisance: The Politics of Law in the Jim Crow Era,” Michigan Law Review, 105 (Dec. 2006), 505–57.
Hill, Anita F., “A History of Hollow Promises: How Choice Jurisprudence Fails to Achieve Educational Equality,” Michigan Journal of Race & Law, 12 (Fall 2006), 107–59.
Izumi, Masumi, “Alienable Citizenship: Race, Loyalty, and the Law in the Age of ‘American Concentration Camps’, 1941–1971,” Asian Law Journal, 13 (no. 1., 2006), 1–30.
Kielbowicz, Richard B., “The Role of News Leaks in Governance and the Law of Journalists’ Confidentiality, 1795–2005,” San Diego Law Review, 43 (Summer 2006), 425–94.
Kimball, Bruce A., and Pedro Reyes, “The ‘First Modern Civil Procedure Course’ as Taught by C. C. Langdell, 1870–78,” American Journal of Legal History, 47 (July 2005), 257–303.
Kuykendall, Mae, “Emerson Family Values: Claims to Duration and Renewal in American Narratives of Divorce, Love, and Marriage,” Hastings Women’s Law Journal, 18 (Winter 2007), 69–113.
Liebman, James S., “Slow Dancing with Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, 1963–2006,” Columbia Law Review, 107 (Jan. 2007), 1–130.
Lynskey, Bill, “Reinventing the First Amendment in Wartime Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 131 (Jan. 2007), 33–80.
Medford, Edna Greene, “Lincoln and the Constitutional Dilemma of Emancipation,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Jan. 2007), 19–23. Heavily illustrated.
Morantz, Alison D., “There’s No Place Like Home: Homestead Exemption and Judicial Constructions of Family in Nineteenth-Century America,” Law & History Review, 24 (Summer 2006), 245–95.
Nicola, Patricia Hackett, “Rebecca Lena Graham’s Fight for Her Inheritance,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 97 (Summer 2006), 139–47.
Pedriana, Nicholas, and Amanda Abraham, “Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: The Legal Field and Newspaper Desegregation of Sex-Segregated Help Wanted Ad, 1965–75,” Law & Social Inquiry, 31 (Fall 2006), 905–36.
Post, Robert, “Federalism, Positive Law, and the Emergence of the American Administrative State: Prohibition in the Taft Court Era,” William and Mary Law Review, 48 (Oct. 2006), 1–182.
Priest, Claire, “Creating an American Property Law: Alienability and Its Limits in American History,” Harvard Law Review, 120 (Dec. 2006), 385–459.
Robertson, Stephen, “Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886–1995,” Law & History Review, 24 (Summer 2006), 331–71.
Schweik, Susan, “Begging the Question: Disability, Mendicancy, Speech, and the Law,” Narrative, 15 (Jan. 2007), 58–70.
Wachtler, Sol, “Dred Scott: A Nightmare for the Originalists,” Touro Law Review, 22 (no. 3, 2006), 575–611.
Waldrep, Christopher, “Law and Society: Structuring Legal Revolutions, 1870–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 5 (Oct. 2006), 309–23.
Williams, Frank J., “‘A Popular Demand and a Public Necessity’: Lincoln and Civil Liberties,” oah Magazine of History, 21 (Jan. 2007), 24–27. Heavily illustrated.
Williamson, Erica, “Moving Past Hippies and Harassment: A Historical Approach to Sex, Appearance, and the Workplace,” Duke Law Journal, 56 (Nov. 2006), 681–720.
Manna, Sharon A., “Crossing the Continental Divide: Hypotheses on the Influence of American Jurisprudence on Canadian Charter Litigation” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2006). Order No. DA3213894.
Murley, David Edmund, “Judicial Neglect: The Supreme Court and the Red Scare, 1949–1961” (Michigan State University, 2005). Order No. DA3204765.
Kreitner, Roy, Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xiv, 242 pp. $55.00, isbn 978-0-8047-5398-2.)
Neal, Bill, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xx, 308 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-89672-579-9.)
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