Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Baier, Paul R., “100 Years of lsu Law, 1906–2006: A Centennial Gloss,” Louisiana Law Review, 67 (Winter 2007), 289–306.
Balmer, Thomas A., “‘Present Appreciation and Future Advantage’: A Note on the Influence of Hobbes on Holmes,” American Journal of Legal History, 47 (Oct. 2005), 412–34.
Barry, Peter J., “‘I’ll keep them in prison awhile . . .’: Abraham Lincoln and David Davis on Civil Liberties in Wartime,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 28 (Winter 2007), 20–29.
Birdsong, Leonard, “Felony Murder: A Historical Perspective by Which to Understand Today’s Modern Felony Murder Rule Statutes,” Thurgood Marshall Law Review, 32 (Fall 2006), 1–26.
Churchill, Robert H., “Gun Regulation, the Police Power, and the Right to Keep Arms in Early America: The Legal Context of the Second Amendment,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 139–75.
Churchill, Robert H., et al., “Forum: Rethinking the Second Amendment,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 139–204.
Cole, Christina, “Women and the fda: Remedying the Past and Preserving the Future,” Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy, 7 (Fall 2006), 127–50.
Cornell, Saul, “Early American Gun Regulation and the Second Amendment: A Closer Look at the Evidence,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 197–204.
Crain, Andrew Downer, “Ford, Carter, and Deregulation in the 1970s,” Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, 5 (Winter 2007), 413–47.
Edwards, Laura F., “Status without Rights: African Americans and the Tangled History of Law and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 365–93.
Friedman, Lawrence M., Christopher J. Walker, and Ben Hernandez-Stern, “The Inheritance Process in San Bernardino County, California, 1964: A Research Note,” Houston Law Review, 43 (Spring 2007), 1445–73.
Gutoff, Jonathan M., “Fugitive Slaves and Ship-Jumping Sailors: The Enforcement and Survival of Coerced Labor,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law, 9 (Fall 2006), 87–116.
Hall, Mark David, “Jeffersonian Walls and Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court’s Use of History in Religion Cases,” Oregon Law Review, 85 (no. 2, 2006), 563–609.
Hetherington, Marc J., and Joseph L. Smith, “Issue Preferences and Evaluations of the U.S. Supreme Court,” Public Opinion Quarterly, 71 (Spring 2007), 40–66.
Igwebuike, John G., “Legal and Policy Implications for Faculty Diversification in Higher Education,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 189–201.
Kissam, Philip C., “Alexis de Tocqueville and American Constitutional Law: On Democracy, the Majority Will, Individual Rights, Federalism, Religion, Civic Associations, and Originalist Constitutional Theory,” Maine Law Review, 59 (no. 1, 2007), 35–74.
Lindquist, Stefanie A., and Rorie Spill Solberg, “Judicial Review by the Burger and Rehnquist Courts: Explaining Justices’ Responses to Constitutional Challenges,” Political Research Quarterly, 60 (March 2007), 71–90.
Lombardi, Clark B., “Nineteenth-Century Free Exercise Jurisprudence and the Challenge of Polygamy: The Relevance of Nineteenth-Century Cases and Commentaries for Contemporary Debates about Free Exercise Exemptions,” Oregon Law Review, 85 (no. 2, 2006), 369–442.
McCall, Madhavi, and Michael A. McCall, “How Far Does the Gender Gap Extend? Decision Making on State Supreme Courts in Fourth Amendment Cases, 1980–2000,” Social Science Journal, 44 (no. 1, 2007), 67–82.
Merkel, William G., “Mandatory Gun Ownership, the Militia Census of 1806, and Background Assumptions Concerning the Early American Right to Arms: A Cautious Response to Robert Churchill,” University of Illinois Law and History Review, 25 (Spring 2007), 187–96.
Ravenell, William H., and Bobby Davis, “Government Acquisition of Private Property for Public Use: An Analysis of United States Supreme Court Decisions,” Negro Educational Review, 57 (Fall–Winter 2006), 203–13.
Riedel, Durwood “Derry,” “The U.S. War Crimes Tribunals at the Former Dachau Concentration Camp: Lessons for Today?,” Berkeley Journal of International Law, 24 (no. 2, 2006), 554–608.
Sanson, Jerry P., “‘Scour[ing] at the Mortar of the Constitution’: Louisiana and the Fundamental Law of the United States,” Louisiana History, 48 (Winter 2007), 5–24.
Sharfstein, Daniel J., “Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600–1860,” Minnesota Law Review, 91 (Feb. 2007), 592–655.
Smith, Bridget K., “Race as Fiction: How Film and Literary Fictions of ‘Mulatto’ Identity Have Both Fostered and Challenged Social and Legal Fictions Regarding Race in America,” Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, 16 (no. 1, 2006), 44–129.
Vining, Richard L., Christopher Zorn, and Susan Navarro Smelcer, “Judicial Tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1790–1868: Frustration, Resignation, and Expiration on the Bench,” Studies in American Political Development, 20 (Oct. 2006), 198–210.
Wardle, Lynn D., “Lessons from the Bill of Rights about Constitutional Protection for Marriage,” Loyola University of Chicago Law Journal, 38 (Winter 2007), 279–320.
Barrett, Jason M., “The Market’s Virtue: Law and Political Economy in Jeffersonian Virginia; Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William Counties, 1740–1830” (University of Michigan, 2006). Order No. DA3224815.
Bartels, Brandon L., “Heterogeneity in Supreme Court Decision Making: How Situational Factors Shape Preference-Based Behavior” (Ohio State University, 2006). Order No. DA3220960.
Brown, Elizabeth, “Crime, Culture, and the City: Political Geographies of Juvenile Justice” (University of Washington, 2006).
Cusick, Roger J., “The Ideas of Roscoe Pound: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Polylegalism” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221092.
Fisher, James Daniel, “The Supreme Court, the Fetus, and the Constitutional Person” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006). Order No. DA3222818.
Hilbink, Thomas Miguel, “Constructing Cause Lawyering: Professionalism, Politics, and Social Change in 1960s America” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3221960.
Lansing, Sharon E., “A Method for Identifying Case Volume Effects on Upper Court Conviction and Prison Rates: Kings County (Brooklyn) Felony Drug Arrests, 1978–2001” (State University of New York, Albany, 2006). Order No. DA3221107.
O’Rourke, Gerald Thomas, “Juvenile Justice, 1955–2005: A Minnesota Case Study of the Red Wing Correctional Facility” (University of Minnesota, 2006). Order No. DA3220019.
Threlkeld, Howard L., “An Empirical Investigation of Attorney Trial Ethics and a Historical Investigation of the Legal Disciplinary System in the State of Georgia from 1964 through 2005” (Capella University, 2006). Order No. DA3226204.
Watson, John C., “The First Amendment as License and Limitation: The Supreme Court Addresses Principles of Journalism Ethics (1947–2005)” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006). Order No. DA3219687.
Ahmad, Diana L., The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2007. xvi, 132 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-87417-698-8.)
Anastaplo, George, Reflections on Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. xviii, 320 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2424-7. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-8131-9173-7.)
Curry, Lynne, The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xii, 164 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1496-7. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1497-4.)
Dierenfield, Bruce J., The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xvi, 263 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1525-4. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1526-1.)
Farber, Daniel A., Retained by the People: The “Silent” Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don’t Know They Have. (New York: Basic, 2007. xiv, 236 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-465-02298-4.)
Gross, Norman, ed., Noble Purposes: Nine Champions of the Rule of Law. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007. xii, 144 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1731-7.)
Magliocca, Gerard N., Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 186 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1509-4.)
Maltz, Earl M., Dred Scott and the Politics of Slavery. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. x, 182 pp. Cloth, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1502-5. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1503-2.)
Murchison, Kenneth M., The Snail Darter Case: tva versus the Endangered Species Act. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. xiv, 234 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-0-7006-1504-9. Paper, $15.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1505-6.)
Pestritto, Ronald J., and Thomas G. West, eds., Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. xiv, 339 pp. Cloth, $85.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1416-2. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-7391-1417-9.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Ross, William G., The Chief Justiceship of Charles Evans Hughes, 1930–1941. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxii, 275 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-1-57003-679-8.)
Scheiber, Harry N., ed., Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. xii, 368 pp. Cloth, $80.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1634-0. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-0-7391-1635-7.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Stewart, David O., The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007. xiv, 349 pp. $27.00, isbn 978-0-7432-8692-3.)
Walsh, Jennifer E., Three Strikes Laws. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xviii, 185 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-313-33708-6.)
White, G. Edward, History and the Constitution: Collected Essays. (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2007. xii, 503 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-1-59460-281-8.)
Whittington, Keith E., Political Foundations of Judicial Supremacy: The Presidency, the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Leadership in U.S. History. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. xii, 303 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-0-691-09640-7.)
Marcus, Maeva, ed., The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789–1800, vol. 8: Cases: 1798–1800. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. xlii, 605 pp. $150.00, isbn 978-0-231-13976-2.)
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