Laura Weinrib

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines the historical relationship between American workers and the law. It focuses on legal contests over workers’…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course explores the constitutional law of freedom of expression, association,…

This seminar examines changing understandings of civil liberties in American legal history. It emphasizes legal and ideological contests over the meaning of free speech, religious…

Laura Weinrib, The Limits of Dissent: Reassessing the Legacy of the World War I Free Speech Cases, 44 J. Sup. Ct. Hist. 278 (2019).

Laura Weinrib, Class and Classification: The Role of Disgust in Regulating Social Status, in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination and Policy in India and…

Laura Weinrib, Breaking the Cycle: Rot and Recrudescence in American Constitutional History, 101 B.U. L. Rev. 1857 (2021).

Laura Weinrib, Power and Premises: The Contested Meanings of the Abrams Dissent, 51 Seton Hall L. Rev. 61 (2020).

Laura Weinrib, Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms, in Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America’s Wars (Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Martha Nussbaum…

Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America’s Wars (Alison LaCroix, Jonathan Masur, Martha Nussbaum & Laura Weinrib eds., Oxford U. Press, 2021).

Laura Weinrib, Before the Culture Wars, New Rambler Rev. (Dec. 7, 2015)(Reviewing Mary Ziegler, After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (2015)).

Laura Weinrib, Class and Classification, in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US (Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha…

Laura Weinrib, Rethinking the Myth of the Modern First Amendment, in The Free Speech Century 48 (Geoffrey R. Stone & Lee C. Bollinger eds., 2019).

Laura Weinrib, Kinship Care Reform: A Proposal for Consent Legislation in Massachusetts, 87 Mass. L. Rev. 23 (2002).

Laura Weinrib, Protecting Sex: Sexual Disincentives and Sex-Based Discrimination in Nguyen v. INS, 12 Colum. J. Gender & L. 222 (2003).

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

Laura Weinrib, Freedom of Conscience in War Time: World War I and the Limits of Civil Liberties, 65 Emory L.J. 1051 (2016).

Laura Weinrib, The Right To Work and the Right To Strike, 2017 U. Chi. Legal F. 513 (2018).

Laura Weinrib, Untangling the Radical Roots of America’s Civil Liberties Settlement: Causation, Compromise, and the Taming of Free Speech, 18 Jerusalem Rev. Legal Stud. 135…

Nitzotz: The Spark of Resistance in Kovno Ghetto & Dachau-Kaufering Concentration Camp (Laura M. Weinrib ed., intro., Estee Shafir Weinrib trans., 2009).

Laura Weinrib, The Second New Deal and the Fourth Courtroom Wall, in Power, Prose, and Purse: Law, Literature, and Economic Transformations (Alison LaCroix, Saul Levmore…

Laura Weinrib, Labor History and the Clash of Capabilities, in The Capability Approach to Labour Law 159 (Brian Langille ed., 2019).

Laura M. Weinrib, From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties Lawyering Between the World Wars, 15 Law, Culture & Human. 622 (2019).

Laura Weinrib, The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise (2016).

Laura Weinrib, Against Intolerance: The Red Scare Roots of Legal Liberalism, 18 J. Gilded Age & Progressive Era 7 (2019).

Laura Weinrib, The Vagrancy Law Challenge and the Vagaries of Legal Change, 43 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1669 (2018) (reviewing Risa Goluboff, Vagrant Nation: Police…

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

Laura Weinrib, Reconstructing Family: Constructive Trust at Relational Dissolution, 37 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 207 (2002).