Legal History

Adriaan M. Lanni & Victor Bers, Disqualified Olympians: The Skeptical Greek View of Divine Judges, in The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective128 (Ari Mermelstein &…

Jasper Kunstreich, Markus Lieberknecht, Heinrich Nemeczek et al., The Reasons Highest Courts Give: England vs. Germany, 1880-1889 vs. 2007-2016, SSRN (Dec. 13, 2024).

Laura Weinrib, Civil Liberties Outside the Courts, 2014 Sup. Ct. Rev. 297.

Annette Gordon-Reed, The Enlightenment in Early America, 66 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 671 (2025).

Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century, 37…

David Rosenberg, Letter to the Editor, 102 Am. Hist. Rev. 1307 (1997)(author’s response to John Henry Schlegel, review of The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of…

David W. Kennedy, International Law and the Nineteenth Century: History of an Illusion, 65 Nordic J. Int’l L. 385 (1996).

Mark Tushnet, Reflections on Democratic Experimentalism in the Progressive Tradition, 9 Contemp. Pragmatism 255 (2012).

Kenneth W. Mack, Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement, 27 Law & Hist. Rev. 657 (2009).

Laura Weinrib, From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law, 34 L. & Soc. Inquiry 187…

Laura Weinrib, The Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech, 30 Law & Hist. Rev. 325…

Laura Weinrib, Book Review, 32 Law & Hist. Rev. 728 (2014)(reviewing Leigh Ann Wheeler, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty (2013)).

Nikolas Bowie, The Constitutional Right of Self-Government, 130 Yale L.J. 1652 (2021).

William W. Fisher, Making Sense of Madison: Nedelsky on Private Property, 18 L. & Soc. Inquiry 547 (1993) (reviewing Jennifer Nedelsky, Private Property and the…

William W. Fisher, Interpreting Holmes, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 1010 (1997).

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Race as Identity Caricature: A Local Legal History Lesson in the Salience of Intra-Racial Conflict, 151 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1913 (2003).

Randall Kennedy, Moving from the Streets to the Corridors of Power: Rustin’s Evolving Perspective, in Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics (Michael G.

Randall L. Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale. L.J. 999 (1989).

Morton J. Horwitz, The Warren Court: Rediscovering the Link Between Law and Culture, 55 U. Chi. L. Rev. 450 (1988).

Morton J. Horwitz, The Historical Contingency of the Role of History, 90 Yale L.J. 1057 (1981).

Morton J. Horwitz, The Rule of Law: An Unqualified Human Good?, 86 Yale L.J. 561 (1977) (reviewing Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John G. Rule, E.