Legal History

Duncan Kennedy, Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000, in The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal 19 (David M. Trubek &…

Duncan Kennedy, A Transnational Genealogy of Proportionality in Private Law, in The Foundations of European Private Law 185 (Roger Brownsword, Hans-W Micklitz, Leone Niglia &…

Justin Desautels-Stein & Duncan Kennedy, Foreword: Theorizing Contemporary Legal Thought, 78 Law & Contemp. Probs. i (2015).

David B. Wilkins & Brant J. Hellwig, Address by Professor David B. Wilkins: Washington and Lee University School of Law Commencement Exercises, May 5, 2018,…

David B. Wilkins, Social Engineers or Corporate Tools? Brown v. Board of Education and the Conscience of the Black Corporate Bar, in Race, Law, and…

David Rosenberg, The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of Torts in History (Harvard Univ. Press 1995).

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 Rosenberg, Letter to the Editor, 84 J. Am. Hist. 1600 (1998)(author’s response to Michael E. Parrish, Book Review, The Hidden Holmes: His Theory of…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States, 3 Ann. Rev. Criminology 299…

Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Capital Punishment: A Century of Discontinuous Debate 100 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 643 (2010).

Christine Desan, Money as a Practice of Value: Creating a Respiratory System for Capital, 82 The William and Mary Quarterly 355 (2025).

Christine Desan & Nathan Tankus, Public Banking in the United States: Historical Lesson for Today, 59 Willamette L. Rev. 331 (2023).

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…

Christine Desan, Book Review, 16 Labor 136 (2019) (reviewing Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (2015)).

Christine A. Desan, Strange New Music: The Monetary Composition Made by the Enlightenment Quartet (July 21, 2018).

Christine A. Desan, Coin Reconsidered: The Political Alchemy of Commodity Money, 11 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 361 (2010).

Christine A. Desan, Money Talks: Listening to the Value of History, 6 Common-Place (Apr. 2006).

Christine A. Desan, Laura Jensen, Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy, 23 Law & Hist. Rev. 470 (2005)(book review).

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Project, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang Ernst eds., Oxford Univ. Press…

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

American Capitalism: New Histories (Sven Beckert & Christine A. Desan eds., 2018).