Monday, July 16, 2012

AJLH 52:3 (July 2012)

Volume 52, Issue 3, of the American Journal of Legal History (July 2012) is or will soon be in the mail.  Here is the table of contents:

Academic SAILERS: The Ford Foundation and the Efforts to Shape Legal Education in Africa, 1957-1997, by  Jayanth K. Krishnan

Individualization of Punishment and the Rule of Law: Reshaping the Legality in the United States and Europe between the 19th and the 20th Century, by Michele Pifferi                                 

Book Reviews

Judy E. Gaughan. Murder was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic, by Kevin Walker

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore.  Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, by Darrell A. H. Miller

Ethan Greenberg. Dred Scott and the Dangers of a Political Court, by Gerry Leonard                     

Peter Charles Hoffer.  A Nation of Laws: America’s Imperfect Pursuit of Justice, by William G. Merkel

Philip K. Howard.  Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America, by Andrew Jay McClurg

Vicki Hsueh. Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America, by Lauren Benton

Calvin H. Johnson. Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’ Constitution, by Douglas G. Smith

Bernie D. Jones. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, by Kevin Noble Maillard

J. M. Kaye.  Medieval English Conveyances, by Robert C. Palmer

Bruce A. Kimball. The Inception of Modern Professional Education, by Steve Sheppard               

Christine L. Krueger. Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy, by Teresa Godwin Phelps

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall.  The Soul of Creativity: Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States, by Robert C. Bird

Alison L. LaCroix. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism, by David J. Bederman

Mona Lynch. Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment, by Marie L. Griffin

Earl M. Maltz. Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861, by  Jason A. Gillmer

Edward F. Mannino. Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society, by Hunter R. Clark

Mark C. Miller. The View of the Courts from the Hill: Interactions Between Congress and the Federal Judiciary, by Bruce Peabody

Francis J. Mootz III (ed.). On Philosophy in American Law, by James R. Beattie, Jr.