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Legal History
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Mark Tushnet, Reflections on Democratic Experimentalism in the Progressive Tradition, 9 Contemp. Pragmatism 255 (2012).
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Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 101 J. Am. Hist. 898 (2014)(reviewing Making Legal History: Essays in Honor of William E. Nelson (Daniel J. Hulsebosch & R.B.
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Property, Contracts, and Politics
August 19, 2026
Mark Tushnet, Property, Contracts, and Politics, 105 Mich. L. Rev. 1223 (2007)(reviewing Rebecca J. Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery (2005)).
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Toward a Syntax of the Unsaid: Construing the Sounds of Congressional and Constitutional Silence
August 19, 2026
Laurence Tribe, Toward a Syntax of the Unsaid: Construing the Sounds of Congressional and Constitutional Silence, 57 Ind. L.J. 515 (1982).
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From Environmental Foundations to Constitutional Structures: Learning from Nature’s Future
August 19, 2026
Laurence H. Tribe, From Environmental Foundations to Constitutional Structures: Learning from Nature’s Future, 84 Yale L.J. 545 (1975).
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In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries
August 19, 2026
In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (Kenneth W. Mack & Jacob Katz Cogan eds., 2024).
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Kenneth W. Mack, E. Frederic Morrow and the Historical Time of the Civil Rights Movement, 103 B.U. L. Rev. 1413 (2023).
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The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side, Balt. Sun, July 8, 2007, at 2F.
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Which Side is Brown v. Board On?
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Which Side is Brown v. Board On?, L.A. Times, July 4, 2007, at A21.
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The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden, The Root (Apr. 6, 2012, 12:55 AM).
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Five Myths About Two-Term Presidents
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Five Myths About Two-Term Presidents, Wash. Post, Nov. 11, 2012, at B02.
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Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?, Politico (Jan. 22, 2017) (essays by twenty-one historians).
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The Transformations of Morton Horwitz
August 19, 2026
Kenneth Mack, The Transformations of Morton Horwitz, Harv. L. Bull., July 1, 2013.
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‘Lawyers Make Law?’: Bob Gordon and the Critical History of the Legal Profession: A Roundtable
August 19, 2026
Laura Kalman, Jed Shugerman, Bill Simon, Kenneth Mack, Serena Mayeri, Norman Spaulding, Sarah Gordon, John Fabian Witt & Amelia Kessler, ‘Lawyers Make Law?’: Bob Gordon…
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Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Pauli Murray: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Beloved Radical, Boston Rev., Feb. 29, 2016 (reviewing Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of…
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Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 67 SMU L. Rev. 229 (2014).
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Kenneth W. Mack, Dissent and Authenticity in the History of American Racial Politics, in Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers and…
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Civil Rights History: The Old and the New
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Civil Rights History: The Old and the New, 126 Harv. L. Rev. F. 258 (2013) (Responding to Risa Goluboff, Lawyers, Law, and…
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Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905, 24 Law & Soc.
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Kenneth W. Mack, Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement, 27 Law & Hist. Rev. 657 (2009).
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The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: The Case of Harrisburg’s W. Justin Carter
August 19, 2026
Kenneth W. Mack, The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: The Case of Harrisburg’s W. Justin Carter, 18 Widener L.J. 1 (2008).