Friday, June 17, 2016

AJLH 56:2

Issue 56: 2 (June 2016) of the American Journal of Legal History is out.  Here’s the TOC:     

The Rebel Soldier Who Became Chief Justice of the United States: The Civil War and its Legacy for Edward Douglass White of Louisiana
Andrew Kent

The Moot: A Colonial New York Lawyers’ Club in the Early 1770s
Michael R. Lazerwitz

Book Reviews

Brian Phillips Murphy, Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic
Gautham Rao

Laura F. Edwards, A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of Rights
Michael Les Benedict

Felice Batlan, Women and Justice for the Poor: A History of Legal Aid, 1863–1945
David S. Tanenhaus