Recent Scholarship
Legal and Constitutional
Abrams, Kerry, “The Hidden Dimension of Nineteenth-Century Immigration Law,” Vanderbilt Law Review, 62 (Oct. 2009), 1353–418.
Charles, Patrick J., “‘Arms for Their Defence’? An Historical, Legal, and Textual Analysis of the English Right to Have Arms and Whether the Second Amendment Should Be Incorporated in McDonald v. City of Chicago,” Cleveland State Law Review, 57 (no. 3, 2009), 351–460.
Clanton, Adam, “The Men Who Would Be King: Forgotten Challenges to U.S. Sovereignty,” UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, 26 (Fall 2008), 1–50.
Cole, Lance, “Special National Investigative Commissions: Essential Powers and Procedures (Some Lessons from the Pearl Harbor, Warren Commission, and 9/11 Commission Investigations),” McGeorge Law Review, 41 (no. 1, 2009), 1–61.
Daniels, Colin J., and Aaron Brooks, “From the Black Sox to the Sky Box: The Evolution and Mechanics of Commissioner Authority,” Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law, 10 (Fall 2008), 23–55.
Dobkin, Donald S., “Race and the Shaping of U.S. Immigration Policy,” Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review, 28 (2009), 19–41.
Dueholm, James A., “A Bill of Lading Delivers the Goods: The Constitutionality and Effect of the Emancipation Proclamation,” Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 31 (Winter 2010), 22–38.
Gajda, Amy, “Judging Journalism: The Turn toward Privacy and Judicial Regulation of the Press,” California Law Review, 97 (Aug. 2009), 1039–105.
Garry, Patrick M., “Liberty through Limits: The Bill of Rights as Limited Government Provisions,” smu Law Review, 62 (Fall 2009), 1745–82.
Gerber, Scott D., “The Origins of an Independent Judiciary in North Carolina, 1663–1787,” North Carolina Law Review, 87 (Sept. 2009), 1771–818.
Graber, Mark A., “James Buchanan as Savior? Judicial Power, Political Fragmentation, and Failed 1831 Repeal of Section 25,” Oregon Law Review, 88 (no. 1, 2009), 95–155.
Greenberg, Jonathan D., “The Arctic in World Environmental History,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 42 (Oct. 2009), 1307–92.
Houghton, Kristopher N., “The Blighted History of the Alameda Land Grant: Montoya v. Unknown Heirs of Vigil,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 983–1007.
Hovenkamp, Herbert, “United States Competition Policy in Crisis: 1890–1955,” Minnesota Law Review, 92 (Dec. 2009), 311–67.
Howe, Scott W., “Slavery as Punishment: Original Public Meaning, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, and the Neglected Clause in the Thirteenth Amendment,” Arizona Law Review, 51 (Winter 2009), 983–1034.
Justl, Jonathan M., “Disastrously Misunderstood: Judicial Deference in the Japanese-American Cases,” Yale Law Journal, 119 (Nov. 2009), 270–315.
Konnoth, Craig J., “Created in Its Image: The Race Analogy, Gay Identity, and Gay Litigation in the 1950s–1970s,” Yale Law Journal, 119 (Nov. 2009), 316–72.
Lahn, Jonathan, “The Demise of the Law-Finding Jury in America and the Birth of American Legal Science: History and Its Challenge for Contemporary Society,” Cleveland State Law Review, 57 (no. 3, 2009), 553–78.
Luchinskii, Iu. V., “Delo Zengera v kontekste bor’by za svobodu slova v amerikanskoi zurnalistike nachala XVIII veka” (The Zenger case, freedom of speech, and American journalism in the early 18th century), in Mify i realii Ameriki v periodike XVIII–XX vv: Vol. 1; In 3 vols. (Myths and realities of American history in periodicals of the 18th through 20th centuries: Vol. 1 of 3 vols.), 11–39. (Moscow: ivi ran, 2008. 262 pp. Paper, isbn 978-5-94067-226-4.) In Russian.
Lujan, Elaine Patricia, “The Pajarito Land Grant: A Contextual Analysis of Its Confirmation by the U.S. Government,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 1009–37.
Majeed, Azhar, “Defying the Constitution: The Rise, Persistence, and Prevalence of Campus Speech Codes,” Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, 7 (Summer 2009), 481–544.
Nelson, William E., “The Height of Sophistication: Law and Professionalism in the City-State of Charleston, South Carolina, 1670–1775,” South Carolina Law Review, 61 (Fall 2009), 1–62.
Oder, Arthur, “What’s Fair Is Fair? A Comparative Look at Judicial Discretion in Fairness Review of Holocaust Era Class Action Settlement in the United States and Canada,” Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, 17 (Summer 2009), 545–88.
Orbach, Barak Y., “Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 21 (Summer 2009), 251–304.
Pedriana, Nicholas, “Discrimination by Definition: The Historical and Legal Paths to the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978,” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, 21 (no. 1, 2009), 1–14.
Purcell, Edward A., Jr., “Ex parte Young and the Transformation of the Federal Courts, 1890–1917,” University of Toledo Law Review, 40 (Summer 2009), 931–70.
Raish, Carol, and Alice M. McSweeney, “Land Grants and the U.S. Forest Service,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 1039–55.
Rosner, Scott, and Deborah Low, “The Efficacy of Olympic Bans and Boycotts on Effectuating International Political and Economic Change,” Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law, 11 (Fall 2009), 27–76.
Schiller, Mark, “The History and Adjudication of the Antonio Chávez Grant,” Natural Resources Journal, 48 (Fall 2008), 1057–79.
Segall, Eric J., “Reconceptualizing Judicial Activism as Judicial Responsibility: A Tale of Two Justice Kennedys,” Arizona State Law Journal, 41 (Fall 2009), 709–53.
Thomas, W. John, “The Devil and Mr. Johnson: A Bluesman’s Cultural Legacy at an Interllectual Property Crossroads,” Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law, 11 (Fall 2009), 1–26.
Tress, Will, “Unintended Collateral Consequences: Defining Felony in the Early American Republic,” Cleveland State Law Review, 57 (no. 3, 2009), 461–91.
Wells, Harwell, “‘No Man Can Be Worth $1,000,000 a Year’: The Fight over Executive Compensation in 1930s America,” University of Richmond Law Review, 44 (Jan. 2010), 689–769.
Wells, Harwell, “The Modernization of Corporation Law, 1920–1940,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, 11 (Spring 2009), 573–629.
Compton, Tonia M, “Proper Women/Propertied Women: Federal Land Laws and Gender Order(s) in the Nineteenth-Century Imperial American West” (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2009). Order No. DA3350371.
Doerner, Jill K., “Explaining the Gender Gap in Sentencing Outcomes: An Investigation of Differential Treatment in U.S. Federal Courts” (Bowling Green State University, 2009). Order No. DA3350941.
Hester, Torrie, “Deportation: Origins of a National and International Power” (University of Oregon, 2008). Order No. DA3346650.
Holt, Daniel Stephen, “Acceptable Risk: Law, Regulation, and the Politics of American Financial Markets, 1878–1930” (University of Virginia, 2008). Order No. DA3353838.
Kadue, Martha Elaine, “Judicial Rhetoric and Gender Reality: Cuckolded Husbands and Abandoned Wives in Gilded Age America” (University of California, Irvine, 2009). Order No. DA3353910.
Pickard, Victor, “Media Democracy Deferred: The Postwar Settlement for U.S. Communications, 1945–1949” (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2008). Order No. DA3347498.
Popescu, Mihaela, “Keeping It Dirty: Defining and Redefining Obscenity in American Judicial Discourse 1873–2007” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3346181.
Wolfe-Dawson, Leigh, “A Biographical Study of Namesake John F. Tinker on the Landmark Legal Case Tinker, et al. v. the Des Moines Independent Community School District, et al.” (Colorado State University, 2008). Order No. DA3346450.
Austin, Raymond D., Navajo Courts and Navajo Common Law: A Tradition of Tribal Self-Governance. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxiv, 268 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-8166-6535-8. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8166-6536-5.)
Burton, Orville Vernon, and David O’Brien, eds., Remembering Brown at Fifty: The University of Illinois Commemorates Brown v. Board of Education. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 435 pp. Cloth, $75.00, isbn 978-0-252-03477-0. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-0-252-07665-7.)
Halliday, Paul D., Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2010. x, 502 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-674-04901-7.)
Shear, Kenneth, Unoriginal Misunderstanding: Press Freedom in Early America and Interpretation of the First Amendment. (Seattle: Libertary, 2009. viii, 144 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-0-9841786-0-5.)
Yoo, John, Crisis and Command: The History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush. (New York: Kaplan, 2009. xx, 524 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-60714-555-4.)
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