The Legal History Blog welcomes
Anders Walker, who is joining us for the month of March. Anders is Assistant Professor of Law at St. Louis University. A beautiful writer, he is the author of
The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown v. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights. Anders' article “
The Violent Bear It Away: Emmett Till and the Modernization of Law Enforcement in Mississippi,” 46 San Diego Law Review 459 (2009), won the Law & Society Association Article Prize; and “
The Anti-Case Method: Herbert Wechsler and the Political History of the Criminal Law Course,” 7 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 31 (2009) won the AALS Section on Criminal Justice Junior Scholar Award. Another of Anders' recent articles is “
Blackboard Jungle: Desegregation, Delinquency, and the Cultural Politics of Brown,” 110 Columbia Law Review 1911 (2010). Anders was "Teacher of the Year" at St. Louis Univeristy Law School in 2009. While a graduate student at Yale he was a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law, 2002 – 2003.
Welcome to Anders!
