Legal History

Reconsidering the Insular Cases: The Past and Future of the American Empire (Gerald L. Neuman & Tomiko Brown-Nagin eds., Harvard Univ. Press 2015).

Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law, 39 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 347 (2014).

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, The Profession of Ecclesiastical Lawyers: An Historical Introduction by R. H. Helmholz , 37 Bull. Medieval Canon L. 271 (2020) (book review).

Charles Donahue Jr., Book Review, 97 Cath. Hist. Rev. 782 (2011) (reviewing Patrick Nold, Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to…

Annette Gordon-Reed, Reading White over Black, 69 Wm. & Mary Q. 853 (2012)(reviewing Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550-1812,…

Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 34 Bull. Medieval Canon L. 281 (2017)(reviewing Bruce C. Brasington, Order in the Court: Medieval Procedural Treatises in Translation (2016)).

Charles Donahue, Jr., Book Review, 87 Cath. Hist. Rev. 97 (2001) (reviewing Michael M. Sheehan, Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies (1996)).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Focusing on Slaves as Well as on Slavery, 47 Early Am. Literature 451 (2012).

Annette Gordon-Reed, Writing Early American Lives as Biography, 71 Wm. & Mary Q. 491 (2014).

Peter S. Onuf & Annette Gordon-Reed, Jefferson’s Spaces, 48 Early Am. Literature 755 (2013) (reviewing Peter Hatch, “A Rich Spot of Earth“: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary…

Mark Tushnet, Writing Supreme Court Histories, 1993 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 11.

Annette Gordon-Reed, “Take Care of Me When Dead”: Jefferson Legacies, 40 J. Early Republic 1 (2020).

Mark Tushnet, Approaches to the Study of the Law of Slavery, 25 Civil War Hist. 329 (1979).

Christine A. Desan, Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of the Empire: The Creation of Legislative Adjudication in Colonial New York, 16 L. & Hist.

Christine A. Desan, The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History, 30 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1 (2005).

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Intoxication and Medieval English Felony Law, 30 Rechtsgeschichte – Legal Hist. 20 (2022).

David Kennedy & Martti Koskenniemi, Of Law and the World: Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political Economy (forthcoming Aug. 2023).

Adriaan Lanni, The Debate over the Rule of Law in Classical Athens: A Legal Consciousness Approach, in 1 The Cambridge History of Democracy: From Democratic…