Monday, March 10, 2008

Two from Green on Equal Protection Revisionism

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Christopher R. Green, University of Mississippi , has posted two new papers calling for a revisionist approach to the Equal Protection Claus...
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Risk, Race, the Right and Teapot Dome in the Book Reviews

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In this "age of terror," with scholarly institutes focusing on the significance of fear , it is interesting to have two new books ...
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Kelley on Exporting Western Law to the Developing World: The Troubling Case of Niger

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Thomas Kelley III, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill , has a new essay Exporting Western Law to the Developing World: The Troubling ...

Litman on 'Billowing White Goo' (aka copyright history)

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Billowing White Goo is a new essay by Jessica Litman, University of Michigan . It is forthcoming in the Columbia Journal of Law & the ...
Friday, March 7, 2008

Goldberg, A Historical Guide to the Future of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples

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A Historical Guide to the Future of Marriage for Same-Sex Couples , just posted by Suzanne B. Goldberg, Columbia , consists of a short essay...
Thursday, March 6, 2008

George Fredrickson has died

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George Fredrickson , a towering figure in U.S. and comparative history, died February 25 at home in Stanford, California at the age of 73. H...

Zuker, Better a Catholic Than a Communist?

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Better a Catholic Than a Communist has just been published by James Zucker , a recent University of Virginia Law School graduate and 5th C...

Collins on Jurisdictional Exceptionalism

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Michael G. Collins, University of Virginia , has just published Jurisdictional Exceptionalism in the Virginia Law Review (2007). Here...
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Fenster on The 9/11 Commission and Institutional Form

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Mark Fenster, University of Florida has posted a new paper, Designing Transparency: The 9/11 Commission and Institutional Form. Here'...

Adams on Cardozo and the history of the American Law Institute

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The American Law Institute: Justice Cardozo's Ministry of Justice? is a new article by Kristen Adams, Stetson University College of La...
Monday, March 3, 2008

Kessler is new LHR Book Review Editor for non-American Legal History

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Amalia Kessler , Stanford Law School, is a new Associate Editor of the Law and History Review, and will join Alfred Brophy in editing book ...

Rao on posse comitatus, Tucker on Canandian shareholder liability and more in the new LHR

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The full Spring 2008 issue of the Law and History Review is published and available on-line. Susanna Blumenthal's article and the re...

Miller and Ruru on The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand

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Robert J. Miller, Lewis & Clark , and Jacinta Ruru, University of Otago , have posted a new paper, An Indigenous Lens into Comparative L...

Palmer on Historical Notes on the First Codes and Institutions in French Louisiana

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Historical Notes on the First Codes and Institutions in French Louisiana is a new paper by Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane Law School . It is for...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Wiki-loving & more in the Book Reviews

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Nicholson Baker's New York Review of Books essay, The Charms of Wikipedia , is ostensibly a review of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual b...

9/11 Revisionism in Shenon, The Commission

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"Now its the revisionists' turn," says Michael Dobbs in his Washington Post review of THE COMMISSION: The Uncensored History...
Saturday, March 1, 2008

Buccafusco on Spiritualism and Will(s) in the Age of Contract

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Spiritualism and Will(s) in the Age of Contract is a new paper by Christopher J. Buccafusco , University of Chicago . Here's the abstr...

New Blog: Cruz Lines

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My colleague David Cruz at USC Law School has just launched his new blog, Cruz Lines . He describes it as "a legal blog offering excu...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Drafting the Future of Human Rights

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" 2048: DRAFTING THE FUTURE OF HUMAN RIGHTS " will be held at Boalt Law School (U.C. Berkeley) tomorrow. Speakers include Mary Ro...

Stewart on "Customs in Common": The Old Emperor's Clothes

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'Customs in Common': The Old Emperor's Clothes has just been posted by Iain M. Stewart, Macquarie University. It appeared in ...

Call for Papers: Politics and the Constitution

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Conference on Politics and the Constitution San Francisco State University September 16-17, 2008 DEADLINE July 1, 2008. Call for Papers: Pol...
Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Gillers on The Transformation of American Obscenity Law from Hicklin to Ulysses II

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Stephen Gillers, New York University , has posted a recent article, A Tendency to Deprave and Corrupt: The Transformation of American Obscen...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Martinez archival documents posted by Yale L.J. Pocket Part

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The new issue of the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part focuses on Jenny Martinez's (Stanford) recent article, Antislavery Courts and the Da...

Hammer on Catholicism and Evolution from Scopes to Dover

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Reconciling Faith, Reason, and Freedom: Catholicism and Evolution from Scopes to Dover has just been posted by Christoper M. Hammer , a JD ...
Monday, February 25, 2008

Call for Proposals: African Studies Association

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The African Studies Association is accepting proposals for its 2008 annual meeting, to be held November 13-16, 2008 in Chicago, Illinois ....

Benvenisti on The Origins of the Concept of Belligerent Occupation

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The Origins of the Concept of Belligerent Occupation is a new article by Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University . Benvenisti has posted only...

Corcos on The Use of Tocqueville's Writing in U.S. Judicial Opinions

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Christine A. Corcos, Louisiana State University , has posted a new essay, A Man for All Reasons: The Use of Tocqueville's Writing in U. ...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Sunday book review round-up

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"A strong ideological fixation is not a promising basis for a responsible foreign policy," is the opening l ine of " One Angr...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Newberry Library Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History

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The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History " Criminal Justice in the Bri...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Richardson, The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law

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The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law by Henry J. Richardson III has just been published by Carolina Academic Pre...

Balmer on the Influence of Hobbes on Holmes

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Thomas A. Balmer , Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court , has just posted an article, Present Appreciation and Future Advantage: A ...

What you missed in Tempe

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The imaginative local arrangements committee for last fall's American Society for Legal History conference, chaired by Jon Rose of Ariz...

Davies on Correcting Search-and-Seizure History

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Correcting Search-and-Seizure History: Now-Forgotten Common-Law Warrantless Arrest Standards and the Original Meaning of Due Process of Law ...