Several contributions to this year's book review issue of the
Michigan Law Review might interest legal historians. Jessica A. Shoemaker reviews Gregory Ablavsky’s
Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories in
The Truth about Property. Jeena Shah reviews Scott L. Cummings’s
An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, in
Community Lawyering in Resistance to Neoliberalism. The issue has a symposium on Sara Mayeux’s
Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, consisting of an
introduction by Brooke Simone and Aditya Vedapudi, Bennett Capers’s
Free-ing Criminal Justice; and Alexis Hoag's
The Color of Justice. Deborah N. Archer revisits James Baldwin’s
The Fire Next Time in
How Racism Persists in its Power. Stephanie Toti provides a foreword,
The Never-Ending Struggle for Reproductive Rights.
--Dan Ernst
