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Legal History
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Reconsidering the Insular Cases: The Past and Future of the American Empire (Gerald L. Neuman & Tomiko Brown-Nagin eds., Harvard Univ. Press 2015).
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Enforcement and Punishment in Medieval Islamic Law
January 30, 2023
Intisar A. Rabb, Crime and Punishment in Medieval Islamic Societies, in Cultural History of Crime and Punishment in the Medieval Age (Sarah McDougall & Karl…
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Stuart M. McManus & Charles Donahue, Jr., Philologia ancilla historiae: An Emendation to lex Burgundionum, 42,2, 131 Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistische Abteilung 414…
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Legal Canons – In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons, 1265-1519
January 23, 2023
Intisar A. Rabb, Legal Canons – In the Classroom and in the Courtroom or, Comparative Perspective on the Origins of Islamic Legal Canons, 1265-1519, 66…
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Writing Supreme Court Histories
January 19, 2023
Mark Tushnet, Writing Supreme Court Histories, 1993 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 11.
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Civil Disobedience, State Action, and Lawmaking Outside the Courts: Robert Bell’s Encounter with American Law
January 11, 2023
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).
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Book Review
December 31, 2022
Christine Desan, Book Review, 49 Am. J. Legal Hist. 493 (2007) (reviewing Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth…
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Book review: The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War
December 9, 2022
Frank I. Michelman, Book Review, 38 J. Interdisc. Hist. 628 (2008) (reviewing Daniel W. Hamilton, The Limits of Sovereignty: Property Confiscation in the Union and…
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Brennan and Democracy: The 1996-97 Brennan Center Symposium Lecture
December 9, 2022
Frank I. Michelman, Brennan and Democracy: The 1996-97 Brennan Center Symposium Lecture, 86 Calif. L. Rev. 399 (1998).
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The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Intoxication and Medieval English Felony Law
November 11, 2022
Elizabeth Papp Kamali, The Horrible Sepulture of Mannes Resoun: Intoxication and Medieval English Felony Law, 30 Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History 20 (2022).
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Tales of the Living Dead: Dealing with Doubt in Medieval English Law
October 28, 2022
Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Tales of the Living Dead: Dealing with Doubt in Medieval English Law, 96 Speculum 367 (2021).
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Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law
October 28, 2022
Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Trial by Ordeal by Jury in Medieval England, or Saints and Sinners in Literature and Law, in Emotion, Violence, Vengeance and Law…
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A Crossroads in Criminal Procedure: The Assumptions Underlying England’s Adoption of Trial by Jury for Crime
October 28, 2022
Elizabeth Papp Kamali & Thomas A. Green, A Crossroads in Criminal Procedure: The Assumptions Underlying England’s Adoption of Trial by Jury for Crime, in Law…
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Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS
October 22, 2022
David J. Barron, Waging War: The Clash Between Presidents and Congress, 1776 to ISIS (Simon & Schuster 2016).
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Sherman’s Missing “Supplement”: Prosecutorial Capacity, Agency Incentives, and the False Dawn of Antitrust Federalism
October 19, 2022
Daniel Rauch, Sherman’s Missing “Supplement”: Prosecutorial Capacity, Agency Incentives, and the False Dawn of Antitrust Federalism, 68 Clev. St. L. Rev. 172 (2020),…
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Book Review
October 19, 2022
Andrew Lanham, Book Review, 1 Mich. J. L. & Soc’y (forthcoming 2022) (reviewing Linda Colley, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and…
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Originalism and the Law of the Past
October 19, 2022
William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism and the Law of the Past, 37 L. & Hist. Rev. 809 (2019).
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Conflict Resolution at a Medieval English Fair
October 19, 2022
Stephen E. Sachs, Conflict Resolution at a Medieval English Fair, in Eine Grenze in Bewegung: Öffentliche und private Justiz im Handels- und Seerecht 19 (Albrecht…
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Full Faith and Credit in the Early Congress
October 19, 2022
Stephen E. Sachs, Full Faith and Credit in the Early Congress, 95 Va. L. Rev. 1201 (2009).
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Stephen E. Sachs, From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval ‘Law Merchant’, 21 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 685 (2006).
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Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution
October 19, 2022
Barbara F. Berenson, Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution (2014).
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Barbara F. Berenson, Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers (2018).
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Society Ties: A History of the Jefferson Society and Student Life at the University of Virginia
October 19, 2022
Thomas L. Howard & Owen W. Gallogly, Society Ties: A History of the Jefferson Society and Student Life at the University of Virginia (2017).
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Zombie State Constitutional Provisions
October 19, 2022
Maureen E. Brady, Zombie State Constitutional Provisions, 2021 Wis. L. Rev. 1063 (2021).
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Turning Neighbors into Nuisances
October 19, 2022
Maureen E. Brady, Turning Neighbors into Nuisances, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021).
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Maureen E. Brady, The Domino Effect in State Takings Law: A Response to 51 Imperfect Solutions, 2020 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1455 (2020).
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Book Review: The Uses of the Dead: The Early Modern Development of Cy-Près Doctrine
October 19, 2022
Maureen E. Brady, Book Review, 38 L. & Hist. Rev. 291 (2020) (reviewing Caroline R. Sherman, The Uses of the Dead: The Early Modern Development…
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The Damagings Clauses
October 19, 2022
Maureen E. Brady, The Damagings Clauses, 104 Va. L. Rev. 341 (2018).
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The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds
October 19, 2022
Maureen E. Brady, The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds, 128 Yale L.J. 872 (2019).
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Madisonian Multiculturalism
October 19, 2022
Alexandra Natapoff, Madisonian Multiculturalism, 45 Am U. L. Rev. 751 (1996).
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Before the Culture Wars
October 19, 2022
Laura Weinrib, Before the Culture Wars, New Rambler Rev. (Dec. 7, 2015)(Reviewing Mary Ziegler, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (2015)).
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From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law
October 19, 2022
Laura Weinrib, From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law, 34 L. & Soc. Inquiry 187…
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The Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech
October 19, 2022
Laura Weinrib, The Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech, 30 Law & Hist. Rev. 325…
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Civil Liberties Outside the Courts
October 19, 2022
Laura Weinrib, Civil Liberties Outside the Courts, 2014 Sup. Ct. Rev. 297.
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Laura Weinrib, Freedom of Conscience in War Time: World War I and the Limits of Civil Liberties, 65 Emory L.J. 1051 (2016).
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Labor History and the Clash of Capabilities
October 19, 2022
Laura Weinrib, Labor History and the Clash of Capabilities, in The Capability Approach to Labour Law 159 (Brian Langille ed., 2019).
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Laura M. Weinrib, From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties Lawyering Between the World Wars, 15 Law, Culture & Human. 622 (2019).
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Book Review: How Sex Became A Civil Liberty
October 19, 2022
Laura Weinrib, Book Review, 32 Law & Hist. Rev. 728 (2014)(reviewing Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (2013)).
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The Constitutional Right of Self-Government
October 19, 2022
Nikolas Bowie, The Constitutional Right of Self-Government, 130 Yale L.J. 1652 (2021).
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High Crimes Without Law
October 19, 2022
Nikolas Bowie, High Crimes Without Law, 132 Harv. L. Rev. F. 59 (2018).
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The Shame of the Territories
October 19, 2022
Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer & Guy-Uriel Charles, The Shame of the Territories (Indiana Legal Stud. Rsch. Paper No. 458, 2021).
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Anna Lvovsky, Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall (2021).
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Americans with Disabilities Act
October 19, 2022
Michael Ashley Stein & Paul Longmore, Americans with Disabilities Act, in 1 Dictionary of American History 172 (3d ed., 2002).
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Priestley v. Fowler (1837) and the Emerging Tort of Negligence
October 19, 2022
Michael Ashley Stein, Priestley v. Fowler (1837) and the Emerging Tort of Negligence, 44 B.C. L. Rev. 689 (2003).
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Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries
October 19, 2022
Michael Ashley Stein, Victorian Tort Liability For Workplace Injuries, 2008 U. Ill. L. Rev. 933.
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Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions
October 19, 2022
Michael Ashley Stein, Christopher P. Guzelian & Kristina M. Guzelian, Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions, 55 Am. J. Legal Hist. 194 (2015).
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The Intellectual Sword: Harvard Law School, the Second Century
October 19, 2022
Bruce A. Kimball & Daniel R. Coquillette, The Intellectual Sword: Harvard Law School, The Second Century (2020).