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Legal History
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Bringing the Law Back into the History of the Civil Rights Movement
February 26, 2025
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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Disqualified Olympians: The Skeptical Greek View of Divine Judges
February 26, 2025
Adriaan M. Lanni & Victor Bers, Disqualified Olympians: The Skeptical Greek View of Divine Judges, in The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective128 (Ari Mermelstein &…
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From Public Interest to Private Rights: Free Speech, Liberal Individualism, and the Making of Modern Tort Law
February 12, 2025
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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Originalism and the Law of the Past
February 6, 2025
William Baude & Stephen E. Sachs, Originalism and the Law of the Past, 37 L. & Hist. Rev. 809 (2019).
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Turning Neighbors into Nuisances
January 2, 2025
Maureen E. Brady, Turning Neighbors into Nuisances, 134 Harv. L. Rev. 1609 (2021).
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Transitional Justice in the Ancient World
January 1, 2025
Adriaan Lanni, Transitional Justice in the Ancient World, in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton & Lawrence Douglas eds., 2023).
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The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds
December 11, 2024
Maureen E. Brady, The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds, 128 Yale L.J. 872 (2019).
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Book Review: The Uses of the Dead: The Early Modern Development of Cy-Près Doctrine
December 4, 2024
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 Sex Side of Civil Liberties: United States v. Dennett and the Changing Face of Free Speech
December 4, 2024
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
December 4, 2024
Laura Weinrib, Civil Liberties Outside the Courts, 2014 Sup. Ct. Rev. 297.
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Book Review: How Sex Became A Civil Liberty
December 4, 2024
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
December 4, 2024
Nikolas Bowie, The Constitutional Right of Self-Government, 130 Yale L.J. 1652 (2021).
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The Shame of the Territories
December 4, 2024
Luis E. Fuentes-Rohwer & Guy-Uriel Charles, The Shame of the Territories (Indiana Legal Stud. Rsch. Paper No. 458, 2021).
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Expert Testimony in Nineteenth Century Malapraxis Actions
December 4, 2024
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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Radical Lawmakers in Colonial Massachusetts: The ‘Countenance of Authoritie’ and the Lawes and Libertyes
December 4, 2024
Daniel R. Coquillette, Radical Lawmakers in Colonial Massachusetts: The ‘Countenance of Authoritie’ and the Lawes and Libertyes, 67 New Eng. Q. 179 (1994).
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Making Sense of Madison: Nedelsky on Private Property
December 4, 2024
William W. Fisher, Making Sense of Madison: Nedelsky on Private Property, 18 L. & Soc. Inquiry 547 (1993) (reviewing Jennifer Nedelsky, Private Property and the…
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Interpreting Holmes
December 4, 2024
William W. Fisher, Interpreting Holmes, 110 Harv. L. Rev. 1010 (1997).
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Race as Identity Caricature: A Local Legal History Lesson in the Salience of Intra-Racial Conflict
December 4, 2024
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).
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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.
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Randall L. Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 98 Yale. L.J. 999 (1989).
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The Warren Court: Rediscovering the Link Between Law and Culture
December 4, 2024
Morton J. Horwitz, The Warren Court: Rediscovering the Link Between Law and Culture, 55 U. Chi. L. Rev. 450 (1988).