Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Afinogenov, Gregory, “Lawyers and Politics in 18th-Century New York,” New York History, 89 (Spring 2008), 143–62.
Davis, Thomas J., “Napoleon v. Lemmon: Antebellum Black New Yorkers, Antislavery, and Law,” Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, 33 (Jan. 2009), 27–46.
Gerber, Scott D., “The Origins of the Georgia Judiciary,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Spring 2009), 55–76.
McNeil, Genna Rae, “The Body, Sexuality, and Self-Defense in State vs. Joan Little, 1974–1975,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Spring 2008), 235–61.
Reno, Janet, and Geoffrey Klineberg, “What Would Jackson Do? Some Old Advice for the New Attorney General,” Harvard Law & Policy Review, 2 (Summer 2008), 197–209.
Schwemm, Robert G., “Cox, Halprin, and Discriminatory Municipal Services under the Fair Housing Act,” Indiana Law Review, 41 (no. 3, 2008), 717–96.
Shelton, David M., “Keeping End-of-Life Decisions Away from Courts after Thirty Years of Failure: Bioethical Mediation as an Alternative for Resolving End-of-Life Disputes,” Hamline Law Review, 31 (Winter 2008), 103–44.
Soifer, Aviam, “De Facto Slavery and the ‘Syren Songs of Liberty and Equality’: Carol Weisbrod, Much Obliged,” Connecticut Law Review, 40 (July 2008), 1315–28.
Valerio-Jiménez, Omar S., “New Avenues for Domestic Dispute and Divorce Lawsuits along the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1832–1893,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Spring 2009), 10–33.
Wagner, Michael A., “‘As Gold Is Tried in the Fire, So Hearts Must Be Tried by Pain’: The Temperance Movement in Georgia and the Local Option Law of 1885,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 93 (Spring 2009), 30–54.
Zbrojewska, Monika, “Dartmouth College v. Woodward: Freedom of Contracts and Private Education,” Krakowskie Studia Miedzynardowe (Kraków), 5 (no. 1, 2008), 397–403.
Bale, Jeffrey, “When Arabic Is the ‘Target’ Language: National Security, Title VI, and Arabic Language Programs, 1958–1991” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3318420.
Cooper, Erica Faye, “One ‘Speck’ of Imperfection—Invisible Blackness and the One-Drop Rule: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining Plessy v. Ferguson and Jane Doe v. State of Louisiana” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3315914.
Osucha, Eden Koren, “The Subject of Privacy: Race, Rights, and Intimate Personhood in Modern American Literature and Law” (Duke University, 2007). Order No. DA3318869.
Bruff, Harold H., Bad Advice: Bush’s Lawyers in the War on Terror. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. viii, 403 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1643-5.)
Cuddihy, William J., The Fourth Amendment: Origins and Original Meaning, 602–1791. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. lxviii, 940 pp. $150.00, isbn 978-0-19-536719-5.)
Domnarski, William, Federal Judges Revealed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. viii, 231 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-19-537459-9.)
Edwards, Laura F., The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xvi, 430 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-8078-3263-9.)
Kastenberg, Joshua E., The Blackstone of Military Law: Colonel William Winthrop. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2009. x, 342 pp. Paper, $65.00, isbn 978-0-8108-6177-0.)
Kimball, Bruce A., The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826–1906. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xviii, 429 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8078-3257-8.)
Newman, Roger K., ed., The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. xiv, 622 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-300-11300-6.)
Schauer, Frederick, Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009. xvi, 239 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-674-03270-5.)
Schultz, John, The Chicago Conspiracy Trial. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xiv, 401 pp. Paper, $22.00, isbn 978-0-226-74114-7.) Originally published in 1970.
Hayman, Robert L., Jr., and Leland Ware, eds., Choosing Equality: Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. xiv, 391 pp. $65.00, isbn 978-0-271-03433-1.)
Hill, John L., Jr., John Hill for the State of Texas: My Years as Attorney General. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. xxiv, 256 pp. $35.00, isbn 978-1-60344-072-1.)
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