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Legal History
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Revised Opinions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (concurring)
January 25, 2024
Mark Tushnet, Revised Opinions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (concurring), in What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation’s Top Legal…
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Mark Tushnet, The Warren Court (1954-1968): Procedural Liberalism and Personal Freedom, in The United States Supreme Court: The Pursuit of Justice 277 (Christopher Tomlins ed.,…
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World War II and the Growth of Civil Rights
January 25, 2024
Mark Tushnet, World War II and the Growth of Civil Rights, in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States v. 5, at 257…
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The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
January 25, 2024
Mark V. Tushnet, The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (Univ. N.C. Press 1987).
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Mark Tushnet, The American Law of Slavery 1810-1860: Considerations of Humanity and Interest (Princeton Univ. Press 1981).
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The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective
January 25, 2024
The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective (Mark Tushnet ed., Univ. Press Va. 1993).
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Mark V. Tushnet, Slave Law in the American South: State v. Mann in History and Literature (Univ. Press of Kansas 2003).
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Property, Contracts, and Politics
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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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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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Historians in Court: A Roundtable
January 25, 2024
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Linda Gordon & Kenneth Mack, Historians in Court: A Roundtable, Am. Historian, Nov. 1, 2017.
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The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side
January 25, 2024
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?
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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?
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
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
January 25, 2024
Kenneth W. Mack, Foreword: A Short Biography of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 67 SMU L. Rev. 229 (2014).
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Dissent and Authenticity in the History of American Racial Politics
January 25, 2024
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…