Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Legal History in Michigan's Book Review Issue

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