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Legal History
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Constitutional Interpretation Outside the Courts
January 25, 2024
Mark Tushnet, Constitutional Interpretation Outside the Courts, 37 J. Interdisc. Hist. 415 (2007) (reviewing David P. Currie, The Constitution of Congress (1997, 2001, 2005 &…
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Book Review: Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine
January 25, 2024
Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 39 J. Interdisc. Hist. 142 (2008) (reviewing Roy Kreitner, Calculating Promises: The Emergence of Modern American Contract Doctrine (2006)).
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Book Review: Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
January 25, 2024
Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 70 Historian 118 (2008) (reviewing Craig Nelson, Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations (2006)).
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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
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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Book Review: Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror
January 25, 2024
Mark Tushnet, Book Review, 76 Historian 606 (2014)(reviewing Dean A. Strang, Worse Than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow & Justice in a Time of Terror…
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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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From Environmental Foundations to Constitutional Structures: Learning from Nature’s Future
January 25, 2024
Laurence H. Tribe, From Environmental Foundations to Constitutional Structures: Learning from Nature’s Future, 84 Yale L.J. 545 (1975).
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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…
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Civil Rights History: The Old and the New
January 25, 2024
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…