William P. Quigley, Loyola University, New Orleans, School of Law, has published The Continuing Significance of Race: Official Legislative Racial Discrimination in Louisiana 1861 to 1974 at 7 S.U. L. Rev. 1 (2019). Here...
Thomas J. McSweeney, Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School, has published Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals (Oxford University Press, 2020). Here from...
ICYMI: Clarendon Reconsidered: Law, Loyalty, Literature, 1640-1674 (Philip Major, ed., Routledge, 2019). Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents. Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century...
John Q. Barrett, St. John’s University School of Law, is publishing Attribution Time: Cal Tinney’s 1937 Quip, “A Switch in Time’ll Save Nine” in the Oklahoma Law Review. Here is the abstract. In the...
From the New York Review of Books, an essay by Michael Chabon on the litigation surrounding the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The essay in slightly altered form also appears in the forthcoming collection Fight...
Newly available: Democracy in America, an interactive digital edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic text, prepared and edited by Alan Keely, Associate Director for Collection Services, Wake Forest Law Library. We have some Tocqueville...
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Lucy A. Jewel , University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell are publishing Death in the Shadows in Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal (2019). Here is the abstract. This paper is...
Stephen Winick writes about the origins of the April Fools joke, here, for Folklife Today. He says in part, But where do we get the strange custom of playing pranks on April 1? The short...
A Potted Legal History of the Bisbee Deportation of 1917 Brian L. Frye Introduction In the summer of 1917, the town of Bisbee, Arizona illegally arrested and deported 1,186 people to...
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